Health Act Amendment Act 1921 (WA)

No. 5.] Health. [1922.

HEALTH.

12° GEO. V., No. XXXIX.

No. 5 of 1922.

AN ACT to amend the Health Act, 1911-1919.

[Assented to 31st January, 1922.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

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

Act, 1921.

Amendment of 2.

Section three of the Health Act, 1911-1919, is hereby amended by adding to the definition of "Boarding-house" the words "or provision is made for more than six persons (exclusive as aforesaid) to be so lodged or boarded:"

see. S.

Amendment of	3. Section two hundred and seven of the Health Act,
see. 207.

1911-1919, is hereby amended by inserting a subsection, as

follows :-

(17a.) He may direct and cause to be held a post

mortem examination of the body of any person who has

died or is supposed to have died of a dangerous infec- tious disease, and may give such direction as he may- think fit for the disposal of such body.

Amendment of	4. Section two hundred and fifty of the Health Act, 1911- 1919, is hereby amended by inserting between the end of the sixth line and the beginning of the seventh, the words "for a period of ten days thereafter and the practitioner shall."
see. 250.

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5. Section two hundred and fifty-six of the Health Act, Amendment of see. 250.

1911-1919, is hereby amended, as follows :—Strike out the fol- lowing words in the third, fourth, and fifth lines : "stating that any person is suffering from venereal disease, and when- ever the Commissioner has reason to believe that such person is suffering from such," sand insert in lieu the following: "which gives the Commissioner reason to believe that any person is suffering from venereal."

6. Section two hundred and eighty of the Health Act, 1911- Amendment of Bee. 280.

1919, is hereby amended by striking out the words "or to act as an assistant nurse in any such hospital," in subsection (1) thereof, and by the repeal of the proviso to subsection (2) thereof, and the substitution therefor of a proviso, as fol- lows:—

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any person attending any lying-in woman who does not reside within five miles from the residence of any registered midwife, or in any case in which no registered midwife is available.

7. Section two hundred and eighty-three of the Health Act, Amendment of see. 283.

1911-1919, is hereby amended by the addition to subsection

two thereof of a proviso, as follows:—

Provided that such regulations may provide that, in the case of any candidate who has undergone three years' general training in an approved institution as a nurse and holds a certificate, it shall be sufficient for such candidate to produce evidence of having undergone six months' training in midwifery at an approved institu- tion.

8. Section two hundred and ninety-two of the Health Act, tom e elnent of

1911-1919, is hereby amended by inserting the words "or any — •

nurse duly authorised in this behalf by the Commissioner"

after the word "officer," in the first line of subsection (3);

and by striking out the words "his hand," in the third line,

and substituting the words "the hand of such medical officer

or nurse."