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The Licensed Hawkers Amendment Act.-1898.

THE SCHEDULE.

For a licence to hawk with a four-wheeled vehicle drawn by horses or other animals, per annum

For a licence to hawk with a two-wheeled vehicle drawn by horses or
other animals, per annum

For a licence to hawk with a hand-cart, per annum
For a licence to hawk with a pack or basket, per annum
For a servant's licence

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£ s. d. 200

1 10 0

1 0 0

0 10 0

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.Half fees as set out above.

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An Act relating to Public Health.

[Assented to, January 4th, 1899.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

BE

the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Health Act, 1898," and shall Short title. commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

2. The following Acts are hereby repealed :

"The Public Health Act," No. 22 of 1873.

"The Public Health Act, 1876."

"The Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1884."

Repeals.

3. The Central Board of Health as now constituted shall be Existing Boards and the Central Board of Health for the purposes of this Act until the officers.

latter be constituted as herein provided.

All Local Boards of Health now existing shall be Local Boards for the purposes of this Act.

The President of the Central Board of Health shall be the Chairman of the Central Board under this Act, and all chairmen, members, officers, and other persons now holding office in or under any Board of Health, shall continue in and hold office under this Act.

4. This

Division.

The Health Act.-1898.

4. This Act is divided as follows:-

PART

I.-The Central Board:

Interpretation.

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5. In this Act, and in all proceedings thereunder, the terms in inverted commas shall have the meanings stated, except where some other meaning is clearly intended

"Act" includes regulations:

"Central Board" means the Central Board of Health:

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Cesspool" means any receptacle for nightsoil or liquid refuse : City and Suburban Local Boards" mean the Municipal Corporations of Adelaide, Brighton, Glenelg, Hindmarsh, Kensington and Norwood, Semaphore, St. Peters, Thebarton, Port Adelaide, and Unley, and the District Councils of Burnside, Campbelltown, Marion, Mitcham, Payneham, Prospect, Rosewater, Walkerville, West Torrens, Woodville, and of Yatala South, and also such other Local Boards as may by Proclamation be declared to be City and Suburban Local Boards:

"District" means the area within the jurisdiction of a Local Board:

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"Drain" means a drain used solely in connection with any build-
ing or premises within the same curtilage, and "sewer'
means every other drain and sewer:
"Infectious disease" includes leprosy, plague, yellow fever, small-
pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, scarlet
fever, scarlatina, and the fevers known by any of the following
names or descriptions:-Typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing
or puerperal (including all puerperal conditions depending
on infection), and also any other disease which the Governor
may, by Proclamation, declare to be an infectious disease:

"Local

The Health Act.-1898.

"Local Board' means a Local Board of Health, and "the Local Board" means the Local Board of Health of the particular district:

"Offensive trade " includes every trade, business, process, or manu-
facture-

(a) Carried on in any candle-house, melting-house, soap-
house, fellmongery, tannery, or slaughter-house, or
in any building or place for boiling meat, offal,
or blood, or for boiling, burning, or crushing
bones:

(b) Carried on so as to cause offensive effluvia :

(c) Whereby lead or other poisoning may be caused: (d) Declared to be an offensive trade by Proclamation: "Owner" includes every person for the time being entitled, either on his own or on any account, to the receipt of any rent or profit of the premises referred to:

"Public place" includes every place to which the public ordinarily have access.

"Private place" means every place other than a public place:

"Proclamation" means a Proclamation by the Governor in the Government Gazette:

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procedure.

6. In all cases where this Act, and any other Act not hereby Alternative repealed, contain provisions for effecting the same or a similar object, but in different modes, proceedings may be had under either Act.

See Public Health
Act, 1873, sec. 35.

affected.

7. Nothing in this Act shall affect any power of proceeding by Other procedure not indictment, complaint, or information, or take away or affect any other remedy under any other Act or otherwise.

8. Nothing in this Act shall affect any powers conferred upon the Saving. Commissioner of Sewers or the Central Board by "The Adelaide Sewers Act" or "The Adelaide Sewers Amendment Act," or limit the effect of any Act relating to factories or lodging-houses.

subject to this Act.

9. Premises owned or occupied by the Government or by public Public buildings bodies shall be subject to the provisions of this Act in the same manner as if they were owned or occupied privately.

10. The officer having the use or control of such premises shall be liable for any breach of the provisions of this Act as if he were the actual owner or occupier of such premises.

11. The Chief Secretary shall be the Minister of Health.

Officer having chief personally responsible

control to be

Minister.

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