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A person who has control over or ordinarily buries bodies in any burial
ground shall not permit to be buried in such burial ground the body of any
deceased child as if it were still-born, and shall not permit to be buried or
bury in such burial ground any still-born child before there is delivered to
him either—
(a) A written certificate that such child was not born alive, signed by a
registered medical practitioner who was in attendance at the birth or
has examined the body of such child; or
(b) A declaration signed by some person who would, if the child had
been born alive, have been required by this Act to give information
concerning the birth to the effect that no registered medical
practitioner was present at the birth or that his certificate cannot be
obtained, and that the child was not born alive;
(c) Or, if there has been an inquest, an order of the Coroner.
Any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1907.
7 Edw. 7, Ch. clxxv.
Part 4.—Milk Supply (Tuberculosis).
24.—(1) It shall be lawful for the medical officer or any person provided
with and if required exhibiting the authority in writing of the medical
officer to take within the county for examination samples of milk produced or
sold or intended for sale within the county.
Provided that in the exercise of the said power at any railway station or
railway premises the medical officer of health or the person so authorised by
him shall conform to the reasonable requirements of the railway company
owning or using such station or premises so that the working of the traffic
thereat may not be obstructed or interfered with.
(2) The council may, if in their discretion they think fit, by resolution
authorise any such sanitary authority as is mentioned in the section of this
Act of which the marginal note is "Interpretation of terms" to exercise in
substitution for the medical officer so much of the powers of sub-section (1) of
this section as to enable such sanitary authority through their Medical Officer
or any person provided with and if required exhibiting the authority in
writing of such last-mentioned medical officer to take within their district
samples of milk for examination by the council and may by such resolution
prescribe the period during which and the conditions subject to which such
authorisation shall take effect. Provided that any medical officer or other
person purporting to act in pursuance of a resolution of the council passed
under this sub-section shall, if required, before taking any sample, exhibit a
copy of such resolution certified by the clerk of the council.
(3) The like powers as are conveyed by sub-section (1) of this section in all
respects may be exercised outside the county by the medical officer or such
authorised person if he shall first have obtained from a justice having