Inspector not to report or divulge information.

1906, No. 36, s. 9.

Penalty,

amended.

12. [8.] No person shall be qualified to be a district inspector who at the same time actually practises, either alone or in partnership with any person, as a land agent, mining engineer, mining manager, viewer, agent, or valuer of mines, or acts as an arbitrator in any differences or disputes arising between owners, agents, or managers of mines, or is otherwise employed in or is the owner or part owner of or interested as a shareholder in any mine within the State.

13. [9.] An inspector shall not, for any purpose whatever, make a report on any mine or mining property or prospect, except an official report to his superior officer or the Minister, nor shall he make public or reveal to any person any knowledge or information obtained by him in the exercise of his official duties, except as aforesaid or when giving evidence in a court of justice.

14. [10.] Any person who acts as a district inspector when 1906, No. 36, s. 10, disqualified as aforesaid, and any inspector who contravenes any of the provisions of the last preceding section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding twelve months.

Regulations and
By-laws.

Manner of showings amendments.

15. (1.) Any regulation or by-law made or purporting to be made under or by virtue of this Act shall

(a.) be published in the Gazette;

(b.) take effect from the date of publication or from a later date to be specified therein; and

(c.) be judicially noticed, and unless and until disallowed as hereinafter provided, or except in so far as in conflict with any express provision of this or any other Act, be conclusively deemed to be valid.

(2.) Such regulations and by-laws shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after publication if Parliament is in session, and if not, then within fourteen days after the commencement of the next session.

(3.) If either House of Parliament pass a resolution at any time within one month after any such regulation or by-law has been laid before it disallowing such regulation or by-law, then the same shall thereupon cease to have effect, subject, however, to such and the like savings as apply in the case of the repeal of a statute.

16. All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act, under the superintendence of the Clerk of Parliaments, and the sections of this Act inserted therein shall respectively bear the numbers set against each of them in square brackets, and all necessary references to this Act shall be made in the margin.

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.

AN ACT to amend The Perth Municipal Gas and Electric Lighting Act, 1911.

BE

[Assented to 20th November, 1915.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Perth Municipal Gas and short title. Electric Lighting Act Amendment Act, 1915, and shall be read as

one with the Perth Municipal Gas and Electric Lighting Act, 1911, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act."

2. Section two of the principal Act is amended by adding the Interpretation. following clauses:

(e) "Mayor "includes the Mayor for the time being of the
City of Perth and any person temporarily acting as
Mayor.

(f) "Gas and Electricity Department" means the business
carried on by the Council for the supply of Gas and
Electric Current, and includes the "Undertaking."

(g)

Deposits, how treated.

Application.

3.

Lighting.

(g) "Accountant" means the Chief Accountant for the time being of the Gas and Electricity Department, and includes any person appointed to act as such for the time being.

(h) "General Manager means the General Manager for the time being of the Gas and Electricity Department, and includes any person appointed to act as such for the time being.

All moneys received by the Council in respect of the Undertaking amounting to Twenty pounds and upwards shall, within seven days or as the Council direct after they have come into the hands of the Treasurer or any other officer of the Council, be paid into such Bank or Banks and to such account or accounts with such Bank or Banks and in such manner as the Council from time to time appoint and direct for that purpose. No such money shall be drawn out of such Bank or Banks except by a cheque signed by the Mayor, the General Manager, and Chief Accountant, or in the absence of any of these officers, then by such other officer or officers of the Council as the Council may from time to time direct.

4. All the provisions of Part XXV of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1906, shall be incorporated in this Act and shall be applicable to all books and accounts kept by the Council in respect of the Gas and Electricity Department.

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.

BE

[Assented to, 8th December, 1915.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Health Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Health Act, 1911 (hereinafter called the principal Act), and this Act and the Health Act, 1911-12, may be cited together as the Health Act, 1911

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2. Section three of the principal Act is hereby amended by Amendment of inserting in its appropriate place the following definition:

"Venereal disease" means and includes gonorrhoea, syphilis (including congenital syphilis), soft chancre, venereal warts and granuloma.

section 3 of principal Act.

3. The following Part is hereby inserted after Part IX. of the Insertion of a principal Act, that is to say:

Part IX.-A.

new Part after Part IX.

Venereal diseases and disorders affecting the generative organs. 242a. (1.) No person other than a medical practitioner, or Venereal diseases to be treated by a person acting under the direct instructions of such a practi- medical tioner, shall attend upon or prescribe for any person suffering practitioners only.

from

Persons suffering from venereal disease to place themselves under treatment.

from any venereal disease for the purpose of curing, alleviating or treating such disease.

Penalty: Fifty pounds, or six months imprisonment with hard labour.

or

(2.) The preceding subsection shall not apply to a registered pharmaceutical chemist who dispenses to the patient of a medical practitioner the prescription of such practitioner or to a registered pharmaceutical chemist who sells any person who, under a permit in writing from the Commissioner (which permit the Commissioner is hereby empowered to grant) sells to any person any patent or proprietary medicine (as defined in section one hundred and eightyseven of this Act) for the cure or alleviation of any venereal disease, from which such person is suffering: Provided always that such medicine is one that has been approved by the Commissioner as fit to be sold for the cure or alleviation of such disease.

Nor shall the preceding subsection apply to the sale by a registered pharmaceutical chemist in the ordinary course of business of any drug, not being a patent or proprietary medicine which has not been approved as aforesaid, and not being prescribed by him for the cure or alleviation of any venereal disease.

Provided that a permit as aforesaid shall not be granted to any person other than a pharmaceutical chemist unless no pharmaceutical chemist carries on business within 10 miles of the place of business of such person.

242b. (1.) Every person suffering from any venereal disease shall, within three days of his becoming aware or suspecting that he is so suffering, consult a medical practitioner thereon and place himself under treatment by such practitioner.

Penalty: Twenty pounds.

(2.) On any prosecution under this section it shall be a defence if the defendant shall prove

(i.) that he never was, within the period of three days,
within twenty miles of a medical practitioner; and
(ii) that he did within such period consult such a practi-
tioner by letter, and has followed, so far as possible,
any advice given by the practitioner.

Provided that such proof shall afford no defence if it appears that at any time before the complaint was laid the condition set out in paragraph (i.) hereof has ceased to apply to the defendant, and he has not thereupon personally consulted and placed himself under treatment by a medical practitioner.

242c.