Report of Royal Commission upon the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Acts
- Date:
- 1871
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Credit: Report of Royal Commission upon the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and 14 & 15 Vict. c. 93. to this Act. Forms in second schedule to be used. Instru- ments may lie in print, &c. Presump- tion as to signatures of justices, &c. Mode of service. Limitation of action, &c. Act of the session of the eleventh and t\velfth years of Her Majesty (chapter forty-three), to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales \vith respect to summary convictions and orders, and in Ireland accordino; to the provisions of The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, as far as those pro- visions respectively are not inconsistent with any provision of this Act, and save that the room or place in which a justice sits to inquire into the truth of the statements con- tained in any information or ajiplication under this Act against or by a woman shall not, tinless the woman so desires, be deemed an open court for that purpose; and, unless the woman otherwise desires, the justice may, in his discretion, order that no person have access to or be or remain in that room without his consent or permission. 38. The forms of certificates, orders, and other instru- ments given in the second schedule to this Act, or forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions as cir- cumstances require, may be used for the purposes therein indicated and according to the directions therein contained, and instruments in those forms shall (as regards the form thereof) be ^'alid and sufficient. 39. Any certificate, order, notice, or other instniment made or issued for the purposes of this Act may be partly in print and partly in writing. 40. In any proceeding under this Act any notice, order, certificate, copy of regulations, or other instrument pur- porting to be signed by a justice, superintendent of police, visiting surgeon, assistant visiting surgeon, surgeon or other medical officer of a prison, chief medical officer of a certified hos])ital, or the inspector or an assistant inspector of certified hospitals, or by any person in Her Majesty's service or in that of the Admiralty, shall on production be received in evidence, and shall be presumed to have been duly signed by the person, and in the character by whom and in which it purports to be signed, until the contrary is shown. 41. Every notice, order, or other instrument by this Act required to be served on a woman shall be served by delivery thereof to some person for her at her usual place of abode, or by delivery thereof to her personally. 42. Any action or prosecution against any person for anything done in ]nirsuance or execution or intended execution of this Act shall be laid and tried in the county where the thing was done, and shall be commenced within three months after the thing done, and not otherwise. Notice in writing of every such action and of the cause thereof shall be given to the intended defendant one month at least before the commencement of the action. In any such action the defendant may plead generally that the act complained of was done in pursuance or execu- tion or intended execution of this Act, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon. The plaintiff shall not recover if tender of sufiicient amends is made before action brought, or if a sufiicient sum of money is paid into court after action brought, by or on behalf of the defendant. If a verdict passes for the defendant, or the plaintiff be- comes nonsuit, or discontinues the action after issue joined, or if, on demurrer or otherwise, judgment is given against the plaintiff, the defendant shall recover his full costs as between attorney and client, and shall have the like remedy for the same as any defendant has by law for costs in other cases. Though a verdict is given for the plaintiff, he shall not have costs against the defendant unless the judge before whom the trial is had certifies his approbation of the action. Names of Places. SCHEDULES. The First Schedule. Names of Places. Portsmouth Plymouth and Devonport. Woohvich Limits of Places. The limits of the municipal borough of Portsmouth, and of the residue of the Island of Portsea, and of th.c parish of Alverstoke, and of the township of Landport. The limits of the following places ; namely,— The municipal borough of Plymouth. The parliamentary borough of Devonport. The parish of Laira. The tithing of Pennyeross or Western Peveril. The tithing of Compton Gifford. ■ Torpoint in the county ot Cornwall, within the distance of half a mile from the Ferry Gate. The limits of the parishes of Woohvich, Plumstead, and Charlton. Chatham Shcerness Aldershot Windsor Colclicster Shorncliffe The Curragh Cork - Queenstown Limits of Places. The hmits of the following jxirishes; namely,— Chatham, Gillingham, St. Nicholas, Rochester, St. Margaret, Rochester, The Precincts, Rochester, Bromjiton, jVcw JJrompton, Strood, and Frindsbury, and of the liamlot of Grange, otherwise Grench. The limits of the parish of Minster, and of the town- ship of Queenborough. The limits of the following parishes; namely,— 1 in the county of Surrey. in the county of Hants'. Purbright Ash, Compton, Pepper Harrow, Frimley, P\ittenham, Seal, and Tongham, Elstead, Farnham, Bisley, Aldershot, Yateley, Crondall, Dogmersfield, Winchfield, Hartley Wiutney, J- Cove, Eversle.v, Famborough, Binste.ad, Bcntlcy, Sandhiirst, in the county of Berks. The limits of the following parishes j namely,— New Windsor, ■) ■ ii i , Old Windsor, I ^ounly of Clewer, j ^e.-ks. _ Eton, in the county of Bucks. The limits of the following parishes or ecclesiastical districts; namely,— All Saints. St. Botolph. St. Giles. St. James. St. John. St. Leonard. St. Martin. St. Mary at the Walls. St. Mary Magdalene. St. Nicholas. St. Peter. St. Runwald. The Holy Trinity. The limits of the following parishes j namely,— Clieriton. Hythe. Folkstone. The limits of the following parishes; namely,— KilcuUon. Kildare. Ballysax. Great Conwcll. Morristown-bcUer. The limits of the borough of Cork for municipal purposes. The limits of the town of Queenstown for the purposes of town improvement. The Second Schedule. Forms. (A.) Gazette Notice of Appointments. London, 18 . The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have [or the Secretary of State for War has] appointed R.S. to be visiting surgeon [or assistant visiting surgeon] for [Ports- mouth, or the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War have appointed P.T. to be inspector (or assistant inspector) of certified hospitals] under The Contagious Diseases Act, 1866. (B.) Certificate for Hospital provided by Admiralty, fyc. The Contagious Diseases Act, 1866. In pursuance of the above-mentioned Act, it is hereby certified by the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom [or by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State intrusted with the Seals of the War Dej)artment], that the following building [or part of a building], namely, [Iiere describe generally the building or part of building^ has been provided by the said Lords Commissioners [or Secretary of State] as a^hospital for the purposes of the said Act. Dated this day of 18 . By order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. (Signed) CP., Secretary of the Admiralty. [Or By order of the Secretary of State for War. (Signed) E.L., Under-Secretary of State.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21365945_0870.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
