[Public health enactments, 1903-1926].

  • Federated Malay States
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1903-1926
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    /3 Published in the Federated Malay Statefi Government Oa,zetie ofjanaury 2, 1919, No. 1, Vol. XT, Notification No. 4. FEDERATED MALAY STATES. ENACTMENT No. 37 of 1918. An Enactment to further amend the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Enactments, 1903. AETHtTE Young, [26tli December, 1918.] President of the Federal Council. IT is hereby enacted by the Eulers of the Federated Malay States in Council as follows : 1. (i) This Enactment may be cited as The Quarantine and short title Prevention of Disease Enactments, 1903, Amendment Enactment, commencement 1918, and shall-come into force on the publication thereof in the construction. Gazette. (ii) This Enactment shall be read and construed as one with the Enactments mentioned in the schedule, which are hereinafter called the principal Enactments, and any copies of the principal Enactments printed after the commencement of this Enactment may be printed with the amendments made by this Enactment. _ 2. Immediately after section 4 of the principal Enactments there New section 44 IS mserted a new section, as follows : 4a (i) The Court of a Magistrate of the First Class may on the order bv Conrt information and application of a Health Officer, after summons to the of» Magistrate, owner or occupier of the building or place in respect whereof the application is made to attend and shew cause against the making of an order and after taking such evidence as the Court thinks proper make an order as hereinafter provided: ' (a) Where it is made to appear to the Court that any building is in such an insanitary coudition as to facilitate the spread of disease, the Court may by order prohibit the use of such building as a dwelling-house until the said order shall be revoked by the Court. (&) Where it is made to appear to the Court that any building used as a dwelling is so overcrowded as to expose the inmates thereof to risk of disease, the Court may by order require the owner or occupier of the building to abate the overcrowding within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the Court, by reducing the number of inmates and may fix the extent of such reduction, (c) In the case of (1) a building prohibited under this section to be used as a dwelling-house, or (2) a building or enclosui-e appearing to the Court to be in such a filthy or insanitary condition as to facilitate the spread of disease, ^he Court may by order require the owner or occupier to carry . out within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the Court, sucli measures as may seem to the Court necessary for /.^^ j purpose of cleansing, ventilating or disinfecting / / such building or enclosure, as the case may be.