Health Act Amendment Act 1933 (WA)

1933.] Health. [No. 5.

HEALTH.

24° GEO. V., No. V.

No. 5 of 1933.

AN ACT to amend the Health Aet, 1911-1932.

[Assented to 2nd October, 1933.]

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:—

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

elct, 1933, and shall be read as one with the Health Act, 1911- zo: 30 of 1932; s

1932 (as reprinted in the Appendix to the Sessional Volume of the Statutes for the year 1931 and amended by No. 30 of 1932), hereinafter referred to as the pincipal Act.

2.    Section forty of the principal Act is amended by adding Amendment of s.

thereto a further proviso, as follows :—

Provided also, that where any land in the district is not connected with any sewer, and a septic tank or other sewerage system approved by the local authority is in- stalled and used upon such land by the owner or occupier thereof for the collection, removal, and disposal of night- soil, urine, and liquid wastes upon such land, the local authority may by an entry in the rate book exempt such land from assessment of the annual rate made and levied under this section, and, in limy of such annual rate, may, in respect of such land, make an annual charge under and in accordance with section eighty-six of this Act for the removal of refuse from such land.

No. 5.] Health. [1933.

Amendment or a.

42.             3. Section forty-two of the principal Act is amended, as

follows :-

(a)

by inserting in subsection (2) after the word "rate," in line one of the subsection, the words "but sub- ject as hereinafter provided" ;

(b)

by adding to subsection (2) a proviso, as follows:—

Provided that, where any land in the district of

a local board is not connected with any sewer, and

a septic tank or other sewerage system approved

by the local board is installed and used upon such

land by the owner or occupier thereof for the col-

lection, removal, and disposal of nightsoil, urine,

and liquid wastes upon such land, the local board

may by an entry in the rate book exempt such land

from assessment of any annual sanitary rate made

and levied by the local board under the authority

of subsection (1) of this section, and, in, lieu of

such sanitary rate, may, in respect of such land,

make an annual charge under and in accordance

with section eighty-six of this Act for the removal

of refuse from such land.

Amendment of s.	4. Section forty-three of the principal Act is amended by deleting from subsection (2) the words "health rate," in line eight of the subsection., and inserting in lieu thereof the words "revenue of the local authority under this Act."
Amendment of s.
260.	5. Section two hundred and sixty-six of the principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph ten, after the word "half," in line one of the paragraph, the words "or such greater proportion as the Minister shall in every case de- cide."
Amendment of a.
269.	6. Section two hundred and sixty-nine of the principal Act is amended by inserting in the third proviso to subsection (2), after the word "half," in line three of such proviso, the words "or such greater proportion as the Minister may in any ease deem reasonable."
Citation of principal

43.

Act as amended. 7. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited

as the Health Act, 1.911-1933.