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VI.—LEGISLATION.
§ 1—GENERAL ACTS.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1904.
(4 Edw. TIL, Ch. 16.)
An Act to enable regulations to be made for carrying into effect conventions
with respect to the prevention of danger arising to public health from vessels,
and the prevention of the conveyance of infection by means of vessels.
The essential part of this Act is Section 1 (1), as follows:—
1.—(1) The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act,
1896, and the enactments mentioned in that Act, shall include the power of
making regulations authorising measures to be taken for the prevention of
danger arising to public health from vessels arriving at any port, and for the
prevention of the conveyance of infection by means of any vessel sailing from
any port, so far as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of carrying
out any treaty, convention, arrangement, or engagement with any foreign
country, and the regulations may in particular provide for the recovery of any
expenses incurred in disinfection and of any charges authorised to be made by
the regulations for the purpose of those regulations or any service performed
thereunder, and also for any powers and duties under the regulations being
executed and performed by local authorities:
Provided that the regulations shall not be made except after consultation
with the Board of Trade.
§ 2.—LOCAL ACTS.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904.
Part IV—Sanitary.
19. (1) Where on the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health of any
Sanitary District it appears to the Sanitary Authority of that District that
any articles in any house or part thereof in that district are in such a filthy
dangerous or unwholesome condition that health is affected or endangered
thereby, or that the cleansing or purifying or destroying of any such article
is requisite to prevent risk of or to check infectious disease, the Sanitary
Authority may cause such articles to be at their own expense cleansed or
purified or they may destroy the same.
(2) If any owner suffer any unnecessary damage the Sanitary Authority
shall compensate him for the same, and the Sanitary Authority shall also
compensate the owner for any article destroyed.
20. (I) Where on the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health of any
Sanitary District it appears to the Sanitary Authority of that district that
any house or part thereof in that district is infested with vermin, such
Sanitary Authority shall give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of
such house or part thereof requiring him within a period to be specified in