Amendments of the Public Health (Boarding-houses) Regulations (ACT)

Regulations 1976 No. 23

Regulations under the Public Health Ordinance 1928.*

I, RALPH JAMES DUNNET HUNT, the Minister of State for Health, hereby make the following Regulations under the Public Health Ordinance 1928.

Dated this seventeenth day of October, 1976.

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health.

AMENDMENTS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH (BOARDING-HOUSES) REGULATIONSt

1 . Regulation 2 of the Public Health (Boarding-houses) Regulations is

repealed.

2 . Regulation 6 of the Public Health (Boarding-houses) Regulations is

amended—

(a)	by omitting from paragraph (c) the words " four feet" and sub­ stituting the figures and word " 1,200 millimetres";
(b)	by omitting from paragraph (d) the words " three feet six inches " and substituting the figures and word " 1,050 millimetres";
(c)	by omitting from sub-paragraph (d) (i) the words " six and one-half inches" and substituting the figures and word "165 millimetres";
(d)	by omitting from sub-paragraph (d) (ii) the words "ten inches" and substituting the figures and word " 255 millimetres "; and
(e)	by omitting from paragraph (e) the words " two feet eight inches " and substituting the words " not less than 865 millimetres ".

3 . Regulation 7 of the Public Health (Boarding-houses) Regulations is

amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words " two inches" and sub­

stituting the figures and word " 50 millimetres ".

4 . Regulation 8 of the Public Health (Boarding-houses) Regulations is

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amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-

regulations:—

" ( 1 ) The proprietor shall not suffer or permit—

(a)	subject to paragraph (b), a boarder of or above the age of 7 years to occupy a bedroom unless the room has floor space of at least 12 square metres; or
(b)	more than 1 boarder of or above the age of 7 years to occupy a bedroom at the same time unless the room has floor space cal­ culated at the rate of—

(i) 12 square metres for the first boarder; and

(ii) 3 square metres for each subsequent boarder.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 3 November 1976.

t For reference to the original Regulations and amendments made before 1960, see footnote on p. 479 of Vol.
Ill o f " Laws of the Australian Capital Territory 1911-1959". For later amendments, see Regulations 1975, N o

" (1A) The proprietor shall not suffer or permit a member of his family

to occupy a bedroom already used as a bedroom by more than 1 boarder.".

5. Regulation 9 of the Public Health (Boarding-houses) Regulations is

amended by adding at the end thereof the words " and having a minimum ceiling
height of 2,400 millimetres ".

6. Regulation 11 of the Public Health (Boarding-houses) Regulations is amended by omitting the words " one square foot of glass to each ten square feet of floor area " and substituting the words " 1 square metre of glass to each 10 square metres of floor area ".