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Director of
Services.
10. The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall Position of be the professional adviser to the Council in all medical Medical and matters including matters of public health and sanitation. Sanitary It shall be his duty to assist and advise the Council on such matters and to superintend the enforcement and observance of all Ordinances relating to Public Health and of the by-laws and regulations made thereunder.
Chairman
11.-(1) The Chairman of the Council shall give such Duties of instructions as may be necessary for carrying out and giving of Council, effect to the decisions and policy of the Council, and shall be responsible also for the general administration of the Sanitary Department.
Medical and
(2) On receipt of any such instructions affecting public Duties of health the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall Director of issue the necessary directions to the officers under his control Sanitary and shall be responsible for their being duly carried out.
Services.
unaffected
12. The Council shall be held to be legally constituted Constitution notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by the death, by vacancies absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.
on the Council.
13.-(1) The Council shall meet once in every alternate Council week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to meetings. time. The Chairman may at any time, and shall, on a requisi- tion signed by three members of the Council, summon a meet- ing thereof.
(2) Any four members shall be a quorum, and at every Quorum. meeting at which the Chairman or Vice-Chairman is absent the members present shall appoint a temporary chairman to pre- side. The chairman at any meeting shall have an original vote and also, if the votes be equal, a casting vote.
14. (1) The Council may make Standing Orders for Standing regulating the procedure at its meetings.
(2) The present Standing Orders of the Sanitary Board shall continue in force so far as they are applicable until re- placed under this section.
orders.
of select committees.
15.-(1) The Council may appoint select committees, Appointment consisting of not less than two of its members or one of its members and a Health Officer or a Veterinary Officer, and may by appointment or removal change the personnel of any such committee.
of
powers
(2) The Council may by resolution delegate any of its Delegation powers and functions to any Health Officer or to any such to Health select committee as aforesaid, with full powers to enforce any Officers or of the provisions of any Ordinance or by-law conferring committees. powers on the Council or providing for the more effectual sanitation of the Colony, and may revoke such delegation.
to select
orders of
(3) Any failure to comply with the orders of a Health Failure to Officer or of such select committee, duly signed by the Secre- comply with tary of the Council, shall be punishable in the same manner the Health as if such order had been made by the Council.
Officers or of select committees.
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