Section 17
of Public Health Milk And Dairies Regulations 1960 Reprinted 1999
Section 17
(1)
Where the Health Officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any person is suffering from disease caused by the consumption of milk from any dairy or that the milk at any dairy is contaminated with disease communicable to man, he may by notice in writing to the occupier of the premises require that no milk from those premises, or that no such milk therefrom as is specified, shall be sold for human consumption.
(2)
Any such notice shall —
(a)
operate for such period not exceeding one week from the receipt of the notice as may be specified therein, but may be renewed for a further period or periods of one week provided that the Director shall have given his approval in writing to such renewal; and
(b)
be withdrawn forthwith upon the Health Officer by whom it was served being satisfied that the milk in respect of which it was served is no longer likely to cause disease through contamination.