Health Act Amendment Act 1900 (WA)

Wesinnt Catiztratta.

ANNO SEXAGESIMO QUARTO

VICTORIA, REGINA,.

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No. XXV.

AN ACT to amend the Health Act, 1898.

[Assented to, oth December, 190o.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and

THIS Act may be cited as the Health Act Amendment Act, 1900, and shall be construed as one with the Health Act, 1898,	short
hereinafter called the principal Act.

1.

THE master, or any other person except the pilot, being in charge of any ship lying in Western Australian waters shall report	Eruptive diseases to
be reported.
to the officer of health of the Local Board whose district includes	Victorian Health
or is nearest to the place where such ship is lying, or to the water	Act, see. 167.
police, any illness of a suspicious kind, or any infectious or con- tagious disease, or any complaint attended with eruption or eruptive symptoms, which may occur in the said ship, immediately on the existence of such illness, disease, or complaint coining to his knowledge, whether such ship has been previously inspected by an officer of health or not.

2.

64° VICTORT2E, No. 25.

Health Act—Anzendment.

THE persons who, after the passing of the Health Act, 1898, have acted as members of the Central Board of Health shall be deemed to have been appointed under that Act ; and the acts of the said Board are hereby validated notwithstanding any defect of appointment.

Validationof existing 3.

Central Board.

THE Governor may, by proclamation, declare any two or more districts, municipal districts, and road board districts to be one district under the principal Act, and the board of health for such combined district shall therein exercise all the powers conferred, and perform all the duties, and be subject to the control and liabilities imposed by the principal Act upon local boards, and shall be called the District Board of Health.

Governor may 4.

claim district.

Each local board5. (1.) IMMEDIATELY after the proclamation of a combined

and road board to district, every municipal council and every non-municipal local

elect members of

District Board. board and every road board within such district shall meet, and each shall elect not more than three of their number to be members of the District Board of Health, and shall report to the Minister the result of such election.

(2.) The Governor shall then, by notice in the Government

the persons elected	Governor to appoint Gazette, appoint the persons so elected to be members of the District
and nominate eon- Board of Health for the combined district, and so to continue untilvener.

they cease to be members of the municipal council, local board, or road board by which they were respectively elected, and shall nominate one of them to be convener of the first meeting of the District Board of Health.

(3.) At the first meeting of such District Board in every year,

Election of Chair- the members present shall elect one of their number to be chairman

man of District

Board, and proceed- for the current year, and, on any vacancy in the office of chairman, ings thereof• the members shall again so elect, and in case of the absence of the

chairman from any meeting, the members present shall elect one of their number to be chairman of that meeting ; and at all meetings of the Board the chairman shall have one vote, and, in case of equality of votes, a second or casting vote ; and during any vacancy in the District Board, whether in the office of chairman or not, the con- tinuing members may act as if no vacancy had occurred ; and at all meetings of the District Board all questions shall be decided by a majority of the votes.

Quorum. (4.) Any number of members, not being less than one half of the District Board, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.

Board may regulate(5.) The District Board may make, alter, and rescind rules its own proceedings. for regulating their own proceedings and the duties of their officers.

64° VICTORI/E, No. 25.

Health Act—Amendment.

A LOCAL Board may cause to be affixed distinctive numbers to every house, tent, or other dwelling not being within a	Loral Board may
number houses, tents,
municipality, and every occupier of such house, tent, or dwelling	etc., outside Muniei-
shall maintain the number, and the plate or material on which the number is painted or otherwise shown, in the place where the same has been affixed as aforesaid ; and, in case of non-observance of
Offence and on I
this section, every such occupier shall be guilty of an offence, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not more than Five pounds.

6.

7.

IN case any Local Board fails to make or give notice of a public health rate within the time limited in that behalf, the

Lapse of time for

making health rate.

Governor may, by notice published in the Government Gazette,

appoint a further time within which such Local Board may make

and give notice of such rate.

SECTION three of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, in the fifteenth paragraph, at the end of the first line, after	Amendment of sec-
tion 3 of the prin-
the word " cow," the words " or goat."	cipal Act.

8.

SECTION twelve of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, in the second paragraph, after the word "Board," where

Amendment of sec-

tion 12.

it first occurs in the fourth line of that paragraph, the words " and

may enter into contracts on its behalf."

9.

SECTION seventeen of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, in the third line, after the word " contracted,"	Amendment of sec-
tion 17.
the words " or abolished."

10.

SECTION thirty-two of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, as the second paragraph thereof, as follows :—	Amendment of sec-
tion 32.

11.

" The Central Board may make

South Australian

(a.) Model by-laws for the guidance of local boards in the Health Act, 1898,

execution of this Act ; and sees. 147 and 148.

(b.) All such by-laws for any portion of the Colony as a Local Board might make, if such portion were within the district of a Local Board.

" Every Local Board

(a.) May, and so far as expressly directed by the Central Board Model by-laws.

shall, adopt the model by-laws prepared by the Central

Board ; and

(b.) May make, in addition, all such by-laws not repugnant thereto as it may deem necessary or convenient for properly carrying into effect the provisions of this Act within the district of the Local Board." By-laws.

64° VICTORI1E No. 25.

Health Act—Amendment.

Amendment of sec- 12. SECTION thirty-three of the principal Act is hereby

tion 33 of the prin-	amended by inserting, in the second line of paragraph (d), after the
cipal Act.	word "milk," the words " cream, butter, or cheese."
SECTION thirty-eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, at the end of the second paragraph, the words " unless such cesspools are so situated and of such construction as shall be required by the by-laws of the Local Board," and by striking out the word " and," in the second line of the seventeenth paragraph, and by inserting after the word " shops " the words " streets and other places."

Amendment of sec-	13.
tion 38.

SECTION one hundred and forty-five of the principal

Amendment of sec- 14.

tion 145.

Act is hereby amended by striking out the word " eight," in the

third line, and inserting instead thereof the word " nine."

SECTION one hundred and forty-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the first line the words " within any city or town," and omitting from the third line the word " therein."

Amendment of sec-	15.
tion 146.
18. SECTION one hundred and fifty-three of the principal By striking out the word " Local," in the last line of the first paragraph, and inserting instead thereof the word " Central," and
Amendment of sec-

tion 153. Act is hereby amended as follows:

By inserting after the second paragraph thereof the following

paragraph:—

" When such direction or order is in writing, and has been served on the owner or occupier of such public building, and has not been complied with within fourteen days after such service, the Central Board may, by order in writing, direct the owner or occupier to close such public building until such order is complied with to the satisfaction of the Central Board, and the same shall be closed accordingly, and remain closed until the Central Board otherwise, by writing, directs."

Closing public build-

ing.

Amendment of sec- 17. SECTION one hundred and seventy-three of the principal

tion 173. Act is hereby amended by omitting from the second line of the fourth paragraph the word " Council," and inserting in lieu thereof the words " Local Board."

18. SECTION one hundred and eighty of the principal Act is

A mend of sec-

Amendment

tion 180. hereby amended by omitting from the last line of the second para-

graph the word " week," and inserting in lieu thereof the word

" month."

64° VICTORLE, No. 25.

Health Act—Amendment.

19.

SECTION one hundred and eighty-eight of the principal

Act is hereby amended by omitting from the fifth line of the fifth tion 185.

paragraph the words " Municipal Council," and inserting in lieu

thereof the words " Local Board."

Amendment of see-

SECTION two hundred and thirty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by striking out the words from " one hundred	Amendment of sec-
tion 233.
and twelve " to " one hundred and ninety " inclusive, in the third, fourth, and fifth lines, and inserting instead thereof the words " one hundred and thirteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and seventy-six, one hundred and seventy-seven, and one hundred and ninety-three."

20.

SECTION two hundred and thirty-eight of the principal

Act is hereby amended by substituting the word " or " for the word 238.

"and," at the end of sub-section one thereof, and by the substitution

of the word " or " for the word " and " at the commencement of the

fifth line of sub-section two thereof, and by the addition to such

section, at the foot or end thereof, of the following words:—" The

rate book, compiled under the provisions of the Municipal Institu-

Amendment of see.

tions Act, 1895, shall be prima fade evidence of the contents of

such book, and of the due striking of such rate, without any evidence that the notices or any of the conditions precedent to the due striking of the rate required by the Municipal Institutions Act, 1895, or any amendment thereof, have been given or complied with."

21.

22.

SECTION two hundred and forty-two of the principal Act

is hereby amended by inserting, at the beginning of the third line, tion 242.

the word " regulation."

Amendment of sec-

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Administrator.

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.