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The following is a copy of an Order issued by the Ministry of Health to enable
this Authority to make bye-laws dealing with Houseboats. The bye-laws are in
course of preparation :—
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS,
1923, No. 812.
London, Port of
Port Sanitary Authority.
The London Port Sanitary Authority (Additional Powers) Order, 1923, dated July 16, 1923,
made by the Minister of Health.
68,539.
Whereas by Orders dated respectively the 25th day of March, 1892, the 29th day of
December, 1894, and the 30th day of June, 1898, the Local Government Board assigned to
the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London as Port Sanitary Authority
(hereinafter referred to as "the Port Sanitary Authority ") for the Port of London, the
powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities or obligations of a Sanitary Authority under
certain sections of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, (a) including Section 95 of the said
Act relating to tents and vans ;
And whereas it is expedient that further provision should be made as hereinafter mentioned
with regard to the powers of the Port Sanitary Authority under the said section :
Now therefore, the Minister of Health, in pursuance of his powers under Section 112 of
the said Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby orders as follows:—
1.—(1) For the purposes of the Orders above-mentioned and of the powers, rights,
duties, capacities, liabilities and obligations of the Port Sanitary Authority thereunder,
Section 95 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, shall apply to a houseboat (as hereinafter
defined) as if such houseboat were a tent, van, shed or similar structure.
(2) In this Order "houseboat" includes any vessel or boat which is lying in any river
or water, or on any foreshore within the district of the Port Sanitary Authority and is not
afloat at all states of the tide, and which is used mainly or wholly for human habitation,
whether such use be temporary or intermittent, or permanent.
2.—This Order may be cited as "The London Port Sanitary Authority (Additional
Powers) Order, 1923," and shall come into operation on the date hereof.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this Sixteenth day of July, One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.
(L.S.) A. B. MACLACHLAN,
Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT, 1920.
(Circular 357).
The following is a copy of the circular received from the Ministry of Health :—
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS,
1923, No. 1095.
DANGEROUS DRUGS.
The Dangerous Drugs (No. 3) Regulations, 1923, dated September 10, 1923, made by
the Secretary of State under section 7 of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920
(10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 46).
In pursuance of Section 7 of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920, I hereby make the following
Regulation (which may be cited as the Dangerous Drugs (No. 3) Regulation, 1923) amending
the Dangerous Drugs Regulations, 1921. (a)
Regulation 15 of the Dangerous Drugs Regulations, 1921, shall be amended and shall
lake effect as if at the end of the regulation were inserted the following words
"If a foreign ship in any port in Great Britain requires to obtain a supply of any of
the drugs in order to complete the necessary equipment of the ship, the master of the
ship is authorised to purchase and be in possession of such quantity of any of the drugs
as may be certified by the Medical Officer of Health of the Port where the ship is (or in his
absence by the Assistant Medical Officer of Health of the Port) to be necessary for the
purpose, the quantity not to exceed what is required for the use of the ship until it next
reaches its home port. The certificate given by the Medical Officer or Assistant Medical
Officer of Health of the Port shall be marked by the supplier with the date of the supply
and shall be retained by him and kept available for inspection."
W. C. BRIDGEMAN,
Home Office, Whitehall, One of His Majesty's Principal
10th September, 1923. Secretaries of State.