A levy must replace the Agency in respect of the accounting period at a rate determined by each litre of milk acquired from a registered producer or produced on the processor’s own milk production holding. The levy due is a debt due, and the Agency may issue a certificate of indebtedness.<\/p>\n
Registered persons must make returns.\u00a0 Failure to make the requisite returns accurately may lead to the cancellation of the registration. They must also keep records on their premises which are open for inspection by the authority.<\/p>\n
The Agency may publish matters in any register.\u00a0 Individual returns may only be published for the purpose of prosecution. \u00a0There are provisions for registration on death and transfer of a business.<\/p>\n
Inspectors of the Agency have free access to premises at which milk is believed to be sold, kept or exposed for sale or transported.\u00a0 Milk tankers and other receptacles may be opened and inspected. \u00a0Samples may be taken n.\u00a0 It is an offence to interfere with and impede an inspector.<\/p>\n\n
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1920s Dairy Regulation There exist several pieces of legislation regulating aspects of agricultural industries, in particular from the perspective of ensuring food hygiene and safety.\u00a0 This reflected the importance of agriculture to the newly independent State.\u00a0 Much of the legislation is still in force but has been superseded or restricted by later European-based, more comprehensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20313,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18988\/revisions\/20313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}