Health Act Amendment Act 1904 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUARTO

EDWARD' SEPTIMI REGIS,

XXXV.

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No. 60 of 1904.

AN ACT to further amend the Health Act,

1898.

[Assented to 24th December, 1904.]

-DE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.     This Act may be cited as the Health Act Amendment Act, Short title.

1904, and shall be read as one with the Health Act, 1898, and its

amendments.

2. The Governor may, by proclamation published in the Governor may dissolve District sre Distri

Government Gazette, dissolve any District Board of Health, and l

Boards.

declare that any two or more districts, Municipal Districts or Road

Districts, shall cease to be a combined district.

3. All rights, liabilities, contracts, and engagements of every Saving of rights, ete.

District Board of Health dissolved under this Act shall, subject to

1904, No. 60.] Health Act—Amendment. [4 Enw. VII.

the provisions hereinafter contained, be vested in and attached to, and may be enforced by or against the several local authorities of the districts which, immediately before the dissolution, constituted the combined district.

Financial adjust- 4.

On the dissolution of any District Board of Health the several local authorities affected may, by agreement, make such adjustment of property, liabilities, contracts, and engagements between the several districts as such local authorities shall think fit ; but in default of any such agreement being come to, the Minister may, at such time as he may think fit, make the adjustment, and finally determine all rights, liabilities, and questions arising there- from.

ment.

Interpretation. 5.

In this Act, the term " local authority " means a municipal council, road board, or local board of health, and includes any local board appointed after the passing of this Act for any district forming part of a combined district dissolved under this Act.

By Authority : Wm. ALFRED WATsow, Government Printer, Perth