A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    under the said act, and to charge the costs to the person on whom the order is made, as is provided in the case where a like order is obtained and executed by such local authority. 14. The guardians of any union, or parish not within a union, Giiardians may at any time employ one of their medical officers to make inquiry and report upon the sanitary state of their union or parish, or any reports^and part thereof, and pay a reasonable compensation for the same out of pay for the their common fund. same. 15. The several words used in this act shall be construed in the Interpretation same manner as is declared with reference to the same words in the °^ 'erms. above cited act, termed The Nuisances Removal Act tor England, 1855, and all the provisions therein, and in The Diseases Prevention Act, 1855/' contained, shall respectively be applicable to this act, except so far as they shall be hereby repealed, or be inconsistent with anything herein provided. 16. aNo justice of the peace shall, unless objected to at the hearing Justices not of any complaint or charge, be deemed incapable of acting in cases incapable of other than appeals arising under the said Nuisances Eempval Act by ^ehi^members reason of his being a member of any body hereby declared to be the of bodies to local authority to execute the said act, or by reason of h'S being a execute contributor, or liable to contribute, to any rate or fund out of which Nuisances it is here provided that all charges and expenses incurred in execut- • ing the said act, and not recovered as therein provided, shall be defrayed. NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT (1855) AMENDMENT, 1863. 26 & 27 ViCTOKiA, Cap. 117. An Act to amend the Nuisances Removal Act for England, 1855, with respect to the seizui-e of diseased and unwholesome meat. [28«/i July, 1863.] Whereas the provisions of The Nuisances Removal Act for England, 1855, with regard to the inspection and seizure of diseased and unwholesome meat, are defective, and it is therefore expedient that a This section (16) has been amended by 29 and 30 Vict., c 41, Sec. 2, as follows : —'■ No Justice of tlie Peace shall be deemed incapable of acting in cases under the Nuisances Removal Act, or the Act of the 2i and 24 Vict, c. 79 or 177, by reason of hi.s being a member of any body thereby declared to bo the authority to execute the said act. or by reason of his being a contributor or liable to contribute to any rate or fund out of which it is thereby provided that all charges and expenses incurred in executing ihe said act, and not recovererl as therein provided, shall be defrayed. The follo*inu'is the Justices of the Peace Act, 1867 (30 and 31 Vict., c. 115) :— A Justice of the Peace shall not be incapable of acting as a Jnatlce at any Petty or Special, or General, or Quarter Sessions, on tbe trial of an offence arising under an act to be put in execution by a Municipal Corporation, or a Local Board of Health, or Improvifment Commissioners, or Trustees, by reason only of his being as one or tlio several ratepayers, or as one of any other class of persons liable in com- mon with the others to contribute to, or lo be benefited by, any fund to the account of which the penalty payable in respect ot such ollence is directed to be carried or of which it will form part, or to contribute to any rate or expen.sos in diminution of which such penalty will go. It has been held that Justices beincci:-o^tcio members ofalJoard of Guardians were competent to try cases under the Adulteration of Food Acts in which the Boards of Guardians were prosecutors.