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Power to the Governor to appoint a Medical Inspector.
Overcrowded lodging houses.
Penalty on persons refusing to permit their houses to be inspected.
Penalty on Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the instalments of their licence fees to be in arrear.
ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1867.
Order and Cleanliness.
search any such house or shop by day, and such constable may, if necessary, break open the doors of such house or shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, and detain the same until the owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroyed, but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper owner.
And in case of a conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to pay in addition any fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in the execution of the said warrant. [So much of this section as applies to the sale of intoxicating liquors repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886 and all the section repealed by Ordinance No. 17 of 1887.]
13. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a duly qualified medical practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform such duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct, and who shall receive such annual salary as may be voted. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
14. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any two resident medical practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any house, occupied by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required to issue a summons against the householder or his agent within the meaning of the "Victoria Registration Ordinance 1866," by notice affixed to the house, to appear before the said Justice who shall thereupon make such order as he may think fit; and in case any order so made shall not be complied with by such householder, or agent as aforesaid, within seven days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon impose on the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
15. The said Medical Inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to enter any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same: any person refusing to permit the said Medical Inspector to enter and examine any such house shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars and not less than five dollars, or in default of payment to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
16. Whenever the holder of any licence for the sale of spirituous liquors granted under Ordinance No. 7 of 1858 shall permit any instalment of his licence fee to be in arrear and unpaid, he shall, on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment, may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886.]
952
Power to the Governor to appoint a
Medical In- spector.
Overcrowded lodging houses.
Penalty on persons refusing to permit their houses to be inspected.
Penalty on Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the
instalments of their licence feea to be in arrear.
ORDINANCE No. 9 or 1867.
Order and Cleanliness.
search any such house or shop by day, and such constable may, if necessary, break open the doors of such house or shop, and seize such liquor or provisions as aforesaid, and detain the same until the owner thereof shall appear before any Justice, and if it shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are tainted, noxious, adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and destroyed, but if otherwise they shall forth with be restored to the proper owner.
a conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to
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pay in addition any fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in the execution *of the said warrant. [So much of this section as applies to the sale of intoxicating liquors repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886 and all the section repealed by Ordinance No. 17 of 1887.]
13. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a duly qualified medical practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform such duties connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall direct, and who shall receive such annual salary as may be voted. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
14. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any two resident medical practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any house, occupied by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and unwholesome state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbour- hood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and be is hereby required to issue a summons against the householder or his agent within the meaning of the "Victoria Registration Ordinance 1866," by notice affixed to the house, to appear before the said Justice who shall thereupon make such order as he may think fit; and in case any order so made shall not be complied with by such householder, or agent as aforesaid, within seven days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon impose on the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the said order may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
15. The said Medical Inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to enter any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same: any person refusing to permit the said Medical Inspector to enter and examine any such house shall on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars and not less than five dollars, or in default of payment to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
16. Whenever the holder of any licence for the sale of spirituous liquors granted under Ordinance No. 7 of 1858 shall permit any instalment of his licence fee to be in arrear and unpaid, he shall, on conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment, may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886.]
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