The handbook of public health : a complete edition of the public health and other sanitary Acts relating to Scotland / annotated, and with the rules, instructions and decisions of the Board of Supervision brought up to date, and relative forms ; by John Skelton.

Skelton, John, Sir, 1831-1897.

Date:: 1890

Credit: The handbook of public health : a complete edition of the public health and other sanitary Acts relating to Scotland / annotated, and with the rules, instructions and decisions of the Board of Supervision brought up to date, and relative forms ; by John Skelton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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$upwards according to the ceusus last taken, in which case the inspectors shall be removable from office by the local authority. Local (lorernmmt A«.—T\ie L.G. Act make* important amendment* <*> this Mction, which will he found in the following notes. Bee also L.O. Act, ia/m, t/rnenf Police Act—There is Do provision a* to 8.1. • in the Act of 1862, but 1 witliout sixscial appointment and remuneration. Appointment of M.O.'t and S.I.'* for eountie* compulsory. — Every c nicnt, without the express written consent oi uio council, «*,ira sin, g ^< \ ''. , M.O.'i and S.I.'t for district* of rountir*.—The di»trict comtuiltcm as L.A. » may either themselves appoint M.O.'* and S. I.s, or may muc arran*jeuicnu with the county council for rendering the services of the M.O. » and a.1. » tor the county regularly available within their district*.—L.O. Art, § 52 {*)• « hen the latter coumo is followed, the officer* arc the officers of the dutnet under the P.H. Act, and tho district coniinitteo arc not bound to appoint other*.—LO. Act, § 52 (3). Officer* for pari* of district.—Tho L.Q. Act provides that appointments may be made cither for the whole district or for any part of it, the |wwer» and duties of officers so ap|x>intcd being, within the area assigned to them, tho same as those of officers appointed by the |>arochial boards as I».A. *.—/>.(/. Act, I l< tSK Transference to county council* of officer* of L.A.'* of parUMe*. -On 15th May 1890 all officers of the paroohtt] boards acting as I.A.'* become officer* »f the redistribute the business, ami may abolish the office of any officer, giving him com|>eiisatiou.—L.O. Act, §g 118 (1), 119 (1), (2), (3), and 120. Appointment*.—Ap|>ointmcnts can bo made only by the 1-A. Its* 11 or by a committee expressly authorised. An ap|>ointmcnl is an act^of extraordinary admiiiistration, which doe* not come within Uie ordinary business remitted to a committee ; but an appointment made by a committee and subsequently approved by tho L.A. would probably be held to have been validly made t>y Uie L A. itself.—B. ... . Intimation of the intention to appoint must be given in the notice calluiR Uie meeting ; an ap|H>intmcnt made witliout notice would be invaliiL The election of offlcors should not bo by l>allot; such mode of election, except where it u authorised hv statute, In-ini? of doubtful legality.—B. It is ucither cx|>ediont nor competent that the offices of S.I. and M.O. should lie held by tho samo person.—Iloarxr* Report, 1868, p. xix. But a medical man, other than the M.O., may competently be appointed S.I.—B. An appointment of S.I. during the pleasure of the L.A., or Eat » limited l^ri.sl, is invalid, being inconsistent with the statutory provision that such ..Hi. i-r. are removable .mlv bv the Board.—B. This will now apply to all S.I. s and M O.'s apiiointed under the P.H. Acts ..r the 1..C. Act. Difiualtfcation*. The app.intincnts of S.I. and M.O., l<eing offices of profit, cannot legally l>e held by mcmlicrs of tho I ..A.—B. .. , A county councillor or hi* partner in business cannot lawfully \<e appointed to any place of profit under cither the county council or district committee,$