Health Act Amendment Act 1912 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO TERTIO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

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No. 28 of 1912.

AN ACT to further amend the Health Act,

1911.

[Assented to 27th September, 1912.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Health Act Amend9nent Act, Short title.

1912, and shall be read and construed as one with the Health Act. 1911 (hereinafter called the principal Act), and the principal Act, the Health Act Amendment Act, 1911, and tins Act may be cited together as the Health Act, 1911-12.

2. Section one hundred and thirty-eight of the principal. Act Amendment of

is hereby amended by the addition to subsection	three of the section 138.
following words:-

" and every plan, block plan, specification; or description supplied to the Commissioner under this section shall, if the Commissioner so directs, be lodged in duplicate.

Provided that a sun print or tracing of any such plan, or block plan shall be deemed to be a duplicate for the purposes of this subsection."

3.    Section one hundred and forty of the principal Act is hereby Amendment of

amended by the insertion in subsection one, immediately before section 140

the word "the" in the third line, of the words "any officer of."

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Amendment of

seel ion 187.	4. Section one hundred and eighty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of the word "division" for the word "Act," in the second paragraph.
Amendment of
section 197.	5. Section one hundred and ninety-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the words "or labelling" immediately after the word "examination," in subsection two.

Amendment of 6. Section two hundred of the principal Act is hereby amended

section 200. as follows:—

(i.)	By the insertion of a new paragraph as follows:—
" (Ga.) Settling and appointing methods of analysis and examination (either exclusive or optional) whereby the composition, quality, or conformity or want of conformity to standard of any food or drug shall or may be ascertained;"

(ii.) By the excision of p Nragraphs eight and eleven, and by the insertion in lieu thereof of the following para- graphs:—

" (8.) (a.) Ordaining that any food 01' drug shall be

labelled;

(b.) Prescribing what information relative to the food or

drug shall be set out on the label;

(c.) Ordaining that any label used in compliance with a requisition of this Act shall contain infor- mation in addition to that required by this Act ;

(d.) Regulating generally the wording, printing, size,

colours, and style of labels to be used in conformity

with any requisition of this Act or any regulation;

(e.)	Prohibiting the sale or offering or exposure for sale of any food or drug which is not labelled as pre- scribed;
(f.)	Granting conditional exemption from any requisition of the regulations regarding labelling in respect of any food or drug and prescribing the conditions of such exemption;

(11.) Discriminating in respect of labelling between drugs supplied on the order of a legally qualified medical practitioner or by a pharmaceutical chemist and drugs not so supplied."

Amendment of 7. Section two hundred and sixty-one of the principal Act (as

section 261. amended by the Health Act Amendment Act, 1911) is hereby amended by the excision of the words "under statutory authority."

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Section two hundred and seventy-one of the principal Act Amendment of

8.   section 271.

is hereby amended by the addition of the subsection following:—

"(2.) Except in so far as they may be in conflict with the

express provisions of this or any other Act, any regulations purporting to be made under this Act and laid before each douse as aforesaid shall, if not annulled in manner afores.aid, be conclusively deemed to be valid, and shall have effect according to their teno•."

Section two hundred and eighty of the principal Act is Amendment of

9.   section 280.

hereby amended by the substitution for the words "Registrar of Deeds or his substitute" of the words "Registrar of Deeds and Transfers or his substitute, or any Assistant Registrar of Deeds and Transfers."

Section three hundred of the principal Act is hereby se igrin(111131feknt

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amended by the insertion, immediately after the word "Act" in subsection two, of the words "or the production of a document purporting to be a copy of any such regulation, by-law, or order, and purporting to be printed by the Government Printer or 17 the authority of the Government."

All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Reprinting

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Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act and the Health Act Amendment Act, 1911, under the supervision of the Clerk of Parliaments, and all necessary references to the amending Acts made in the margin, and in any such reprint the short title shall be altered to "The Health Act, 191142."

By Authority : FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer. Perth.