ENTITLED
ENCLOSURE
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(Rec 27977)
Attorney General's Office.
17th September, 1897,
170
REPORT ON ORDINANCE NO.17 OF 1897.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance,
"An Ordinance to prevent the spread of Infectious
Disease arising from the consumption of contaminated
or unwholesome milk."
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not
contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
The object of this Ordinance is to enable
the Medical Officer of Health, properly to supervise the
Dairies and Milk supplies of the Colony. Section 3 follows
the lines of section 4 of the English Act, 53 & 54 Victoria
C 34 with such alterations as local circumstances render
desirable. As, e.g. the substitution of "the Governor in
Council" for the English "local authority".
I append a copy of the printed "Objects and
Reasons" which were appended to the Bill.