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(?i) The expression " ship " includes a vessel 01* boat ;
(0) The expression "Officer of Customs" includes any person acting
under the authority of the Commissioners of His Majesty's
Customs;
(p) The expression "Master" used in relation to a ship includes the
officer, or other person for the time being in charge or command
of the ship ;
(q) The expression "Sanitary Authority" means every Port Sanitary
Authority, and every Council of a Municipal Borough or other
Urban District, and every Rural District Council whose borough
or district includes or abuts on any part of a Customs port which
part is not within the jurisdiction of a Port Sanitary Authority ;
(r) The expression "the District" means the District of a Sanitary
Authority ;
(s) The expression "Medical Officer of Health" includes any duly
qualified Medical Practitioner appointed or employed by a
Sanitary Authority to act in the execution of these Regulations ;
and any other person appointed or employed by the Sanitary
Authority under these 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 the 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.
Article II.—These Regulations shall come into operation on the First day
of January, One thousand nine hundred and nine, and shall then and thereafter
apply and have effect in relation to the District of every Sanitary
Authority throughout England and Wales, and shall be enforced and executed
by every Officer of Customs, by every Sanitary Authority, and by the
Medical Officer of Health, and where the circumstances so require, by anv
other Officer of a Sanitary Authority.
Article III.—(1.) The Officer of Customs, on the arrival of a ship within
the District, shall ascertain whether the cargo of the ship comprises any
foreign meat.
Commence
ment and
extent of
Regulations.
Examination
of foreign
meat by Customs
Officer.