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2. Section 2 amends the definition of Colonial Veterinary Surgeon so as to include any Assistant Veterinary Surgeon.
3. Section 3 (a) which refers to the removal of Architects from the register for good cause shown is intended to take away the ambiguity which exists from the use of the words "and remove any such names " in section 7 of the principal Ordinance.— The amendment makes it clear that any architect may be removed from the list.--Section 3 (b) authorizes the name of an Architect, who has ceased to practise in the Colony, to be removed from the Register.
4. The amendment effected by section 4 (b) of this Ordinance is rendered necessary by the fact that a new Officer has recently been appointed with the title of Second Medical Officer of Health; provision is also made for the appointment of a Deputy Medical Officer of Health; whilst section (4) (a) provides for the appointment of Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeons and meat and food Inspectors.
5. Section 5 deletes the words "in any marketi from section 70 as it is found that these words cause a troublesome limitation on the operation of the section.
6. The object of section 6 is to prevent places for sale of food being maintained in the Hill District unless they are licensed and properly controlled. Ex- perience has shown the danger of the establishment at the Peak of shops in which the sale of food is not kept under proper sanitary conditions. Such shops tend also to attract rats and might possibly become centres of infection if plague were to return to the Colony.
7. Section 7 of this Ordinance repeals sections 82, 83 and 83A of the principal Ordinance the language and arrangement of the repealed sections 82 and 83 being unsatisfactory. The new section 82, enacted by section 6 of this Ordinance, is based, subject to differ- ences hereafter mentioned, upon the language of sub- sections (1) to (3) of section 47 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.-Accordingly the fine under sub-section (2) of the new section 82, i.e. $500, is the equivalent of the £50 in the Home Act, instead of the $100 in 83A of Ordinance 1 of 1903 which seems to be a wholly inadequate fine for a serious offence. Moreover the same sub-section, following the English Act, confers upon a Magistrate power to inflict im- prisonment, without the option of a fine, for a term not exceeding six months.
The differences between section 47 of the English Act of 1891, and the new section 82 of 1 of 1903 (enacted by section 7 of this Ordinance) are follows: *
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(1) That the power of entry is made exercisable at any time" for the reason that the illegal slaughtering and dressing of dead pigs usually takes place at night, and consequently this relaxation as to time has been asked for by the Head of the Sanitary Department in place of the pre- vious 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. limit.-The English Act says at all reasonable times".
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