Land Quarantine Act 1884 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO OCTAVO

VICTORTN. REGINA

No. 3

An Act to amend The Land Quarantine Act, 1878.'

[Assented to 22nd August, 1884.

HEREAS it is expedient to define more clearly the powers

Wprevent the spreading of Infectious or Contagious Diseases within thewhich may be exercised by the Governor in Council to

Colony : Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows

1. This Act may be cited as The Land Quarantine Act, 1884.'

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to

time, and also in any case which may appear to constitute a case of

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special emergency, at a distance from Perth, for any person or persons authorised by the Governor in Council to make regulations and orders, and to give directions respecting the following matters :-

(1.) The giving of notices to the proper authorities of the pre- sence of any infectious or contagious disease in any house, premises, place, town, or district.

(2.) The entry at all times of houses, buildings, and premises by medical or other officers or persons for the purpose of carrying out any of the said regulations or of inquiring into or ascertaining the presence of such disease.

(8.) The destruction or disinfection of infected bedding, clothing,

and other infected things.

(4.) The cleansing and disinfecting of houses, buildings, and other premises by the owners or occupiers thereof, or by medical or other officers or persons at the expense of the owners or occupiers, or, where necessary, at the public expense.

(5.) The removal of persons suffering from infectious or con- tagious diseases to hospitals or other suitable or convenient places, and the keeping of them in such places until they are free from infection or contagion.

(6.) The forbidding and preventing of persons from quitting or entering any house, premises, place, town, or district which may be declared to be infected by the Governor, or other person or persons as aforesaid, by notice published in any manner which may seem fit to the Governor or other person as aforesaid.

(7.) The declaring of any house, premises, place, town, or district

to be infected as aforesaid.

(8.) The times, methods, and conditions of the burial of the

dead.

(a) Any matter whether of the like or other kind which the Governor, or other person or persons as aforesaid, may deem to be necessary as a precaution against the breaking out or spreading of such disease as aforesaid.

3. This Act shall be incorporated and read together with The

Land Quarantine Act, 1878.'

4. Sections A, D, F, G, II, and I of The Shortening Ordinance, 1853,' shall be incorporated with and taken to form part of this Act to all intents and purposes, and in as full and ample a manner as if the said Sections had been introduced and fully set forth in this Act.

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.