### Dairies Regulations 《奶場規例》

14. Disposal of effluent
The effluent from any building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room shall at all times be disposed of to the satisfaction of the Director.

15. Walls, etc. to be lime-washed
The whole of the interior walls (unless exempted by the Director) and the ceilings of any building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room shall be properly lime-washed during the months of January and July of each year.

16. Cleansing, etc. of dairies
(1) Every building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or to which cattle have access or which is a milk room shall be thoroughly cleansed as often as may be necessary to ensure that the same is at all times clean to the satisfaction of an inspector.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of regulation 15, every building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room shall be scraped and lime-washed whenever required by the Director.
(3) The floor of every such building or other place shall be thoroughly cleansed and all offensive matter removed therefrom not less than once in every 24 hours. (E.R. 2 of 2019)
(4) A supply of clean fresh water sufficient for compliance with the requirements of this regulation shall be provided in every dairy.

17. Storage of milk
No milk intended for sale shall be deposited or kept in any place in any dairy, other than in a milk room or, pending the removal to a milk room, in any place in which cattle are milked.

18. Design and construction of vessels and utensils used for containing milk
No receptacle or other utensil shall be used in any dairy for containing milk intended for sale unless the same is of such design and constructed of such material as the Director has, for the time being, approved.

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20. Drinking from milk vessels prohibited
No person shall drink out of any appliance, receptacle or other utensil used in any dairy in the milking of animals or in the cooling, processing, handling, storage or distribution of milk intended for sale.

21. Control of spitting in dairies
(1) No person shall spit in any building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room.
(2) No person shall spit in any other part of a dairy save into spittoons or other receptacles provided for the purpose.
(3) A notice or notices, of a size and in a form approved by the Director and in a language prescribed by him, prohibiting spitting shall be conspicuously displayed in any part of a dairy in which cattle are kept or which is a milk room.
(4) A sufficient quantity of disinfectant fluid shall be kept in every spittoon or other receptacle provided in a dairy.
(5) Every spittoon or other receptacle provided in a dairy shall be thoroughly cleansed daily.

22. Immunization of dairyman, etc. against certain diseases, etc.
(1) No registered dairyman and no person who is employed in any dairy shall be engaged therein unless he has been—
(a) (Repealed L.N. 360 of 1982)(b) immunized, in accordance with such of the requirements of a notification under paragraph (2) as apply to him. (L.N. 201 of 1980)
(2) The Director of Health may from time to time by notification published in the Gazette require registered dairymen and other persons engaged in any dairy to be immunized against such diseases as may be specified in such notification. (L.N. 360 of 1982; L.N. 76 of 1989)
(3) No person suffering from a disease or having recently been in contact with a person so suffering shall be in any dairy or milk any animal or handle any vessel used for the reception of milk or in any way take part in the conduct of the production, preparation, storage, distribution or sale of milk.

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23. Restriction on use of milk from diseased animal
(1) The milk of a diseased animal or of any animal which has been in contact with or associated with a diseased animal and any milk which is in the opinion of a health officer likely to have become or to become contaminated— (L.N. 407 of 1990)
(a) shall not be mixed with other milk;
(b) shall not be sold as human food; and
(c) shall not be sold or used as food for animals save with the permission of a health officer.
(2) Any milk which contains more than 200 000 bacteria per millilitre or any coliform bacteria in 1/1 000th (0.001) of a millilitre shall not— (26 of 2012 s. 54)
(a) be mixed with other milk in any part of a dairy which is a milk room;
(b) be sold for human consumption;
(c) be placed in any receptacle in any part of a dairy which is a milk room;
(d) be sold, sent or delivered to any milk factory. (L.N. 407 of 1990)

24. Registered dairymen to give notice of illness in certain cases
Where any registered dairyman knows that he or any person who resides in the premises in which he resides or who is employed by him in any dairy is suffering from any disease, he shall forthwith give notice in writing thereof to a health officer.

25. Licensee to give notice of disease among cattle in dairy or among animals associated therewith
Where the licensee of any dairy knows that any disease exists among any of the cattle kept in the dairy, or among other animals associated with such cattle, he shall forthwith give notice in writing thereof to the Director or the senior veterinary officer.

### Dairies Regulations 《奶場規例》

26. Register of herd to be kept
(1) Every registered dairyman shall keep a herd register on a form to be supplied by the Director. He shall enter therein in black ink particulars of each and every animal kept or received by him. He shall make all necessary entries therein promptly so that the register forms an up-to-date record of his herd. In the case of any animal which ceases to be kept by him, the dairyman shall cancel the particulars aforesaid by means of a thin line in red ink in such a manner as not to render such particulars illegible. In addition, he shall enter in red ink in the remarks column, the date of the departure of such animal from the dairy and the place to which it has been sent and, if required by any inspector, shall produce a receipt or other document verifying the date of departure of the animal and its destination. In the case of the death of an animal, the date and cause of death, and the manner and place of disposal of the carcass, shall be entered in red ink in the appropriate columns and the registered dairyman shall, if required by any inspector, produce documentary evidence verifying such particulars. All entries shall be in either the English language or the Chinese language. All entries shall be complete and accurate. (80 of 1997 s. 116)
(2) Any such register shall be produced by the registered dairyman for inspection on demand by any inspector.
(3) The loss of any such register shall be reported by the registered dairyman without delay to the Director or to an inspector.