Health Act Amendment Act 1950 (WA)

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HEALTH.

14° Geo. VI., No. XXV.

No. 25 of 1950.

AN ACT to amend the Health Act, 1911-1948.

[Assented to 5th December, 1950.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in 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, 1950, and shall be read as one with the Health Act, 1911-1948 (Act No. 34 of 1911 as reprinted with amendments to and including Act No. 71 of 1948 incorporated pursuant to the pro- visions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and as directed by section forty-two of Act No. 38 of 1933 and as approved for reprint on 17th March, 1949, in Volume 3 of the Reprinted Acts of the Par- liament of Western Australia, 1950), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Citation of

the principal	2.	The principal Act as amended by this Act may
Act as

amended	be cited as the Health Act, 1911-1950.
by this Act.
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Section twenty-two of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "district" in line six the words, "while so placed under that jurisdic- tion and the Governor may remove the area of land from that jurisdiction and from that district and such adjustment and distribution of the assets and liabilities of the council as the Commissioner con- siders necessary as consequential to such removal shall be made as and in the manner the Commis- sioner directs."

amended. 3.

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4. Subsection (2) of section forty of the principal LrIgnded

Act is amended by

(a)	substituting for the word, "ninepence" in line one of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a), the words, "one shilling";
(b)	substituting for the words, "one penny farthing" in line three of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a), the words, "three pence";
(c)	substituting for the word, "sixpence" in line one of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b), the words, "eight pence";
(d)	substituting for the words, "three farth- ings" in lines two and three of subpara- graph (ii) of paragraph (b), the words, "two pence".

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5. Section forty-one of the principal Act amended.

amended by

(a)	substituting for the word, "sixpence" in line nine, the words, "eight pence";
(b)	substituting for the words, "three farth- ings" in lines twelve and thirteen, the words, "two pence."

6. The principal Act is amended by adding the

following section:-

293A. (1) The Commissioner may, by notice Notice

published in the Gazette, require all persons Persons to

over the age of fourteen years of any class or 3eCiffgnation

classes specified in the notice to undergo X-ray Cf. No. 20

examinations for tuberculosis at such times and Kr. 45. 5. 5

places as are specified in the notice and all per- sons to whom the notice applies shall, subject to subsection (3) of this section undergo the examination accordingly.

(2) The Commissioner shall cause a copy of the notice promulgated pursuant to the pro- visions of the last preceding subsection to be published once at least in not less than three newspapers circulating in the State and may in addition cause the contents of the notice to be made known to the public in such other manner as he considers desirable.

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(3) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to a person of a class in respect of which class a notice is promulgated pursuant to those provisions, if that person is the holder of a certificate signed by a medical practitioner by whom he has been profession- ally attended or by an approved medical officer certifying that the person has within a period of twelve months immediately preceding the date of the publication of the notice in the Gazette, undergone an X-ray examination of his lungs; but the person shall if required in writing to do so by the Commissioner produce the certificate and the report of the radiologist by whom the examination was carried out to the Commissioner or to a person specified by the Commissioner.

(4) The provisions of this section are in addi- tion to and not in derogation of those of the last preceding section.

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amended 7. Section three hundred and fourteen of the

principal Act is amended by

(a) adding after the section number, "314" the figure one in brackets thus—(1) and the words, "Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding subsection";

(b) adding the following subsection

(2) Where the Commissioner suspects or knows that a person of or under the age of sixteen years is suffering from venereal disease he may, if he thinks fit, communicate the suspicion or knowledge to the parents or persons standing in the place of parents of the person and the communication shall be regarded as being made in the performance of his duties under this Act.

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repealed. 8. Section three hundred and twenty-two of the principal Act is repealed.

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9.    Section three hundred and twenty-four of the :Milled.

principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "authority" in line six, the words; "or one hundred pounds, whichever is the greater."

10.    Section three hundred and forty-three of the an ended.

principal Act is amended by adding the following

subsections:

(5) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing subsections of this section the Gov- ernor may make regulations for all or any of the purposes for which by-laws may be made by a local authority pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

(b) Regulations so made shall have effect in any district or part of a district which the Governor may prescribe.

(c) Where there is conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of regulations so made and by-laws made by a local authority pursuant to the provisions of this Act, the provisions of the regulations to the extent of the conflict or inconsistency shall prevail.

(6) (a) In this subsection

"the regulations" means the Caravans and Camp Regulations, 1949, published in the Gazette of the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine and the Argentine Ants (Health Act) Regulations, 1950, pub- lished in the Gazette of the twenty- fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

(b) In order to resolve doubts as to the power of the Governor to make the regulations it is declared that the Governor shall be regarded as having and having had power at all times to make the regulations.