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The Minister of Health in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Publicl(HeaMt
Act, 1875, the Public Health Act, 1896, and the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907,
hereby makes the following regulations:—
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Medway (Shell-Fish) Regulations, 1935, and shall come
into operation on the first day of February, 1936.
(2) In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:—
" the Minister " means the Minister of Health ;
" sanitary authority " means a port sanitary authority or the council of any municipal borough
or urban or rural district;
" district " means the district of a port sanitary authority or so much of the district of a sanitary
authority (other than a port sanitary authority) as is not included within the district of a port
sanitary authority ;
" prescribed area " means the River Medway extending seaward as far as a line drawn from
St. James's Church, Grain, to the north-west point of land at Sheerness, including all tributary
creeks and that portion of the River Swale north-west of the western limit of the Faversham Port
Sanitary District, and all shell-fish layings on or near the banks of the said rivers or creeks.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, (a) applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to
the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2. These regulations shall be executed and enforced in each district by the sanitary authority of that
district.
3. A person shall not sell distribute or offer for sale for human consumption any oysters, mussels or
other molluscan shell-fish other than periwinkles taken from the prescribed area unless
(a) they have been subjected to a satisfactory process of cleansing at an establishment which is
for the time being approved by the Minister for the purpose, or
(b) they have been relaid for not less than fourteen days during a period of the year not being
any part of the months of November, December, January or February in such place outside the
prescribed area and subject to such conditions as may for the time being be approved by the Minister.
4. Within the period of twenty-one days after the date of these regulations or within such further
period as the Minister may allow the Rochester Port Sanitary Authority and the London Port Sanitary
Authority shall cause a statement of the effect of these regulations to be published in one or more local
newspapers circulating in the districts adjacent to the prescribed area and shall take such other steps as they
may think necessary to bring them to the notice of persons interested.
Given under the official seal of the Minister of Health this eleventh day of December nineteen hundred
and thirty-five.
J. N. BECKETT,
(l.s.) Assistant Secretary,
Min'istry of Health.
Note.—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by subsection (3) of section 1 that if any person wilfully
neglects or refuses to obey or carry out or obstructs the execution of any regulations made under any of the
enactments mentioned in that Act he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £100 and in the case of a
continuing offence to a further penalty not exceeding £50 for every day during which the offence continues.
The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act, 1896, and the enactments mentioned in
that Act is enlarged by the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907.
(a) 52 & 53 Vic. c. 63.