Public Health Act 1886 Amendment Act 1892 (WA)

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ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO QUINTO

VICTORIA, REGL •

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No. XXII.

AN ACT to amend " The Public Health Act,

1886 " (50 Vie., No. 19).

[Assented to, i&th Marcie, &92. ]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend " The Public Health Act

W1886 ": Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excel-	' Preamble.
lent 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:—

1. THIS Act may be cited as " The Public Health Act, 1886,

Amendment Act, 1892," and shall be read as one with " The Public	Shor	t	title
Health Act, 1886," hereinafter called the principal Act.

2.      THIS Act shall commence and come into operation on the Date of commence-

1st day of April, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. meat.

3.      SECTION 12 and clause 8 of Section 2 of the principal Act Repeal.

are hereby repealed, at and from the time of the commencement of

this Act.

terms "Local Board " and " Local Board of Health " shall mean the Interpretation. 4. IN the construction and for the purposes of this Act, the

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Public health Act—Amendment.

Municipal Council of any city or town to which the provisions of the principal Act now apply, or hereafter may be extended.

THE Local Boards of Health, as at present constituted, of the city of Perth and the towns of Fremantle, Albany, and Guildford, respectively, are hereby abolished from and after the 31st day of March,. 1892, and the members of the Municipal Council, for the time being, of the city of Perth, and the towns of Fremantle, Albany, and Guildford, respectively, shall, from and after the 31st day of March, 1892, become the Local Boards of Health for the said city of

5.

Abolition of existing

Local Boards.

Formation of

Local Boards. Perth, and towns of Fremantle, Albany, and Guildford, respec- tively ; and the members of the Municipal Council, for the time being, of each city or town to which the provisions of the principal Act may hereafter be extended shall constitute the Local Board of Health of such city or town, respectively ; and each such Local Board of Health shall have and execute all the powers and duties vested in, or imposed upon, Local Boards under the principal Act.

6. ALL duties imposed by " The Public Health Act, 1886,"

Business to be ordim upon Local Boards, and all business relating to the public health,

ary business of

Municipal Councils. shall form part of the duties and business of the Municipal Council of any city or town to which the provisions of the principal Act are applied or may hereafter be extended, and may be performed and transacted as ordinary business at any monthly or other meeting of such Council. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any Municipal Council from making by-laws for the conduct of this branch of its duties.

7.      THE whole of the moneys, assets, and property Of the Local

Assots and liabilities

Boards of Health hereby abolished shall vest in the new Boards

of Boards abolished

to be taken over by

hereby constituted, and such last-mentioned Boards shall be liable

new Boards.

for all contracts and obligations, properly incurred, of the present

Boards hereby abolished.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Administrator.

By Authority : RICHARD PETRER, Government Printer, Perth.