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Regulations to exercise any powers, or to discharge any duties assigned
to the Medical Officer of Health;
"(t.) The expression 'Local Authority' means every Council of a
Municipal Borough or other Urban District and every Rural District
Council, not being a Sanitary Authority within the meaning of these
Regulations, and includes the Common Council of the City of London
and every Council of a Metropolitan Borough;
"(u.) The expression 'area' used in relation to a Local Authority
means the area subject to the jurisdiction of the Local Authority for the
purposes of the Public Health Act, 1875, or of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, as the case may be."
Commencement
and
extent of
operation of
amending
Regulations.
Article II.—These Regulations shall come into operation on the Thirtieth
day of September, One thousand nine hundred and nine, and then and thereafter
the Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations, 1908, and any Order
theretofore made in pursuance of Article XVI. of those Regulations shall
apply and have effect and shall be enforced and executed in such form and
in such manner as will give full effect to the alterations made by these
Regulations, and as if, throughout the Public Health (Foreign Meat)
Regulations, 1908, references to an Officer of Customs and Excise were
substituted for references to an Officer of Customs, and as if, throughout any
such Order, references to the Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations,
1908, as altered by these Regulations, were substituted for references to the
Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations, 1908, and references to an Officer
of Customs and Excise were substituted for references to an Officer of
Customs.
Short Title
Article III.—These Regulations may be cited as "The Public Health
(Foreign Meat) Amending Regulations, 1909."
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this
Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year One thousand nine
hundred and nine.
L.S.
JOHN BURNS,
President.
S. B. Provis, Secretary.
Notice.—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by. Sub-section 3 of Section 1
that if any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out, or obstructs the
execution of any regulation made under any of the enactments mentioned in that
Act he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Pounds, and in
the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds
for every day during which the offence continues.
The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act, 1896, and the
enactments mentioned in that Act is enlarged by the Public Health (Regulations
as to Food) Act, 1907.
Date of Publication in the "London Gazette," 28th September, 1909.