Section 169. Section 187. Section 231. Amendment of Health-Amendment. In section one hundred and sixty-nine, line one, the word "houses" is inserted after the word "all." In section one hundred and eighty-seven, the words "in In section two hundred and thirty-one. sub-section six, 9. SECTIONS one hundred and ten and one hundred and sections 110 and 111 eleven of the principal Act are struck out, and the following sections are substituted therefor: of principal Act. Governor may direct enforcement of provisions to pre vent disease. Ibid., s. 37. Ibid., s. 121. Board to make regulations as to diseases. Ibid., s. 74. 110. THE Governor may make orders from time to time directing that the provisions in the next following section contained, for the prevention of epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases, be put in force in Western Australia, or in such parts thereof, or in such places therein, as in such orders respectively may be expressed; and may in like manner from time to time revoke, alter, or vary any such orders; and such orders shall have the like effect as if the provisions therein contained were included in this Act: Provided that such orders shall, within one week from the making thereof, be published in the Government Gazette. 111. FROM time to time after the issuing of any such order as in the last preceding section mentioned. and whilst the same continues in force, the Central Board may make such regulations as the said Board shall think fit for the prevention, as far as possible, or mitigation of such epidemic, endemic, or contagious diseases, and may from time to time revoke, renew, and alter any such regulations, or substitute such new regulations as to the said Board may seem expedient; and the said Board may, by such regulations, provide― (a.) For the giving of notice of the presence of any infectious or contagious disease in any house, premises, place, town, or district; (b.) For the entry, at all times, of houses, buildings, and premises by medical or other officers or persons, for the purpose of carrying out any of the said regulations, or of inquiring into and ascertaining the presence of such diseases; (c.) For the effectual cleansing of streets and public ways and places by those entrusted by law with the Health-Amendment. the care and management thereof, or by the owners and occupiers of houses and tenements adjoining thereto; (d.) For the cleansing, purifying, ventilating, and disinfecting of houses, schools, churches, buildings, and places of assembly or entertainment, and other buildings and premises, by the owners or occupiers or persons having the care and ordering thereof, or by other persons at the expense of such owners or occupiers or persons, or, where necessary, at the public expense; (e.) For the destruction or disinfection of any goods or chattels, and of night-soil or the fæcal or other discharges of persons suffering from infectious or contagious disease; (f) For a house-to-house visitation and inspection of the whole or part of any district; (g.) For the removal of persons suffering from infectious or contagious diseases to hospitals, or other suitable or convenient places, and the keeping of them in such places until they are free from infection or contagion; (h.) For the forbidding and preventing of persons from quitting or entering any house, premises, place, town, or district which may be declared by the said Board to be infected; (i.) For the declaring of any house, premises, town, or district to be infected as aforesaid; (j.) For the times, methods, and conditions of the burial or disposal of the dead; (k.) For lessening or regulating the number of the inmates and occupants of common or other lodging houses, workrooms, or factories, or other public buildings; (1.) For causing public and private privies and earth closets to be established and properly constructed, maintained, and cleansed; (m.) For the speedy removal of nuisances; (n.) For any matter of the like or other kind which the Board may deem to be necessary as a pre caution against the breaking out or spreading of any such diseases as aforesaid; (0.) Health-Amendment. (0.) And generally for preventing or mitigating such epidemic, endemic, or contagious diseases in such manner as to the Board may seem expedient; And the said Board may, by any such regulations, authorise, require, and direct any local board or their officers to superintend and see to the execution of any such regulations, and to provide for the dispensing of medicines, and for affording to persons afflicted by or threatened with such epidemic, endemic, or contagious diseases such medical aid as may be required, and the said Board may do and provide all such acts, matters, and things as may be necessary for executing or superintending and aiding in the execution of such regulations. Such regulations shall extend to all parts or places included in any order to be issued by the Governor as aforesaid, unless such regulations be expressly confined to some of such parts or places, and shall continue in force until such order be rescinded in regard to the parts or places to which such regulations shall extend. All such regulations shall, within two weeks from the making thereof, be published in the Government Gazette. The Board shall be deemed to have had such from the commencement of the Health Act, 1898. powers In the name and on behalf of the King I hereby assent to this Act. ARTHUR LAWLEY, Governor. By Authority: WM. ALFRED WATSON, Government Printer, Perth. AN ACT for the Early Closing of Shops, and to regulate the Hours of Employment in Shops and other Places of Business. BE [Assented to, 19th February, 1902.] 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: PART I.-PRELIMINARY. 1. THIS Act may be cited as the Early Closing Act, 1902. 2. IN this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, "Closed" means closed to the admission of the public for "District" means a municipality or other area declared by Short title. Interpretation. Early Closing. "Minister" means the Minister of the Crown charged with the administration of this Act. "Proclamation" means a proclamation by the Governor published in the Government Gazette. 66 Shop" means place, building, stall, tent, vehicle, or boat in which goods are offered or exposed for sale, or in which the business of a hairdresser is carried on, in any district; or portion of a building separated from the rest of the building by a substantial partition, and in which goods are offered or exposed as aforesaid, or in which any such business as aforesaid is carried on. "Shop assistant" means person employed in or in connection with the sale of goods in a shop, not being a carter, and includes any clerk employed in a shop, but does not include any person who is employed by the shopkeeper when the shop is closed only. "Shopkeeper means person, partnership, or corporation occupying a shop directly or indirectly as principal, and any agent or other person acting or apparently acting in the management or control of a shop. 66 Week-day" means any day of the week except Sunday. Districts. Closing times. PART II. THE CLOSING OF SHOPS. 3. THE Governor may from time to time, by proclamation, declare any municipality to be, or cease to be, a district for the purposes of this Act; and may in like manner define the boundaries of any other area, and declare the same to be, or cease to be, a district. 4. (1.) THE closing time for all shops (except those mentioned in Schedule One) situate in any district shall be, in every week:On one week-day, One o'clock; On one week-day, Ten o'clock; On the four other week-days, Six o'clock; and all such shops shall close on those days not later than the hours above-mentioned, which shall be the hours after the hour of noon in each day, and shall continue closed until eight o'clock, or such earlier hour as may be mentioned in the proclamation, in the morning of the week-day next following. (2.) |