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Limitation of Scope of Regulationn.
Article X.—Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to or impose any
duty or obligation upon any Medical Practitioner acting in his capacity as—
(ia) Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution or District Medical
Officer;
(b) Medical Officer of a Hospital;
(e) Medical Officer of one of His Majesty's Prisons, or of a Certified
Reformatory School;
(d) Medical Officer of an Institution for Lunatics;
(f) Medical Examiner of candidates for some office or appointment;
(f) Medical Examiner on behalf of an Insurance Company of a person
proposing to insure his life at the risk of that Company; or
(g) Medical Examiner of the passengers and crew of an emigrant ship.
Article XI.—Nothing in these Regulations or in the Hospital Regulations
shall have effcct so as to require a notification to be transmitted to a Medical
Officer of Health in respect of any person whose place of residence is not
situated in England or Wales.
Article XII.—Nothing in these Regulations shall have effect so as to
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require a notification to be transmitted to a Medical Officer of Health in respect
of any inmate of any building, ship, vessel, boat, tent, van, shed, or similar
structure belonging to His Majesty the King.
Exception and Application of Enactments.
Article XIII.—Nothing in these Regulations shall have effect so as to
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apply, or so as to authorise or require a Medical Officer of Health or a Council,
or any other person or authority, directly or indirectly, to put in force with
respect to r.ny patient in relation to whom a notification in pursuance of these
Regulations has been transmitted to a Medical Officer of Health, any enactment
which renders the patient, or a person in charge of the patient, or any other
person, liable to a penal'y, or subjects the patient to any restriction, prohibition,
or disability affecting himself, or his employment, occupation, or means
of livelihood, on the ground of his suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
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Modifications coimquent upon Local Acts.
Article XIV.—Nothing in these Regulations shall have effect in derogation
of any power conferred, or of any obligation imposed with respect to
Pulmonary Tuberculosis by a Local Act.
Subject as aforesaid and subject to the condition set forth in Article XIII.,
these Regulations shall apply and have effect in relation to every area in
which a Local Act containing provisions with respect to Pulmonary Tuberculosis
is in force;
Provided that, on the application of the Council for the area We may, by
Order, direct that, after the date fixed by the Order, these Regulations, or so