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Every such officer shall be entitled to receive for every notification in
which he has entered particulars, and which he has posted to a Medical Officer
of Health in pursuance of these Regulations, remuneration from the Council
for whose area the Medical Officer of Health acts.
The remuneration in the case of a Medical Officer shall be at the rate of
one shilling, and in the case of every other officer at the rate of threepence for
every such notification, and shall in every case be deemed to cover the cost of
postage, but where, in relation to one and the same case, two or more notifications
have, in pursuance of these Regulations, been posted by the Medical
Officer to one and the same Medical Officer of Health, the remuneration of the
Medical Officer shall be at the rate of sixpence for every such notification as
he has so posted subsequently to the posting of the first notification.
(2) No remuneration shall be payable in pursuance of this Article to any
officer in respect of a notification in any case in which the particulars entered
in the notification have not also been entered in the counterfoil from which the
notification has been detached.
(3) Every officer to whom any remuneration is payable in pursuance of this
Article shall make out quarterly according to the usual quarter days, in the
Form E set forth in the Schedule to these Regulations, his account of sums
claimed from a Council in pursuance of these Regulations, and shall on those
days transmit the account to the Council, together with all such counterfoils as
relate to the notifications in respect of which the sums entered in the Account
are claimed.
The Council shall forthwith cause the accuracy of the items entered in every
account made out and submitted in pursuance of this Article to be investigated
and verified, and, after the completion of the investigation and verification,
shall pay to the officer by whom the account has been transmitted to the
Council, such remuneration, at the rate fixed by these Regulations, as the
Council have ascertained to be due to that officer.
The Council shall at the same time return to the said officer all such counterfoils
as relate to the notifications in respect of which payment is made to him.
Exception and application of enactments and Special Powers of Councils.
Article IX.—(1.) Nothing in these Regulations shall have effect so as to
apply, or so as to authorise or require a Medical Officer of Health or a Council,
or any other person or authority, directly or indirecty, to put in force with
respect to any poor person, in relation to whom a notification in pursuance of
these Regulations has been posted to a Medical Officer of Health, any enactment
which renders the poor person, or a person in charge of the poor person,
or any other person, liable to a penalty, or subjects the poor person to any
restriction, prohibition, or disability affecting himself, or his employment,
occupation, means of livelihood, or residence, on the ground of his suffering
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
(2.) Subject as aforesaid, a Council, on the advice of their Mcdical Officer
of Health, in the case of a poor person in relation to whom a notification
in pursuance of these Regulations has been posted to the Medical Officer