APPENDIX. removing nuisances; speedy interment; and generally for the pur pose of prevention; and they may require the poor, &c., For the removal of nuisances; For the speedy interment of the dead; And the said board or last-mentioned commisguardians of sioners may by any such directions and regulations authorize and require the guardians of the poor in England and Ireland, and the parochial boards for the management of the poor in Scotland, by themselves or their officers, or any persons employed by them in the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, or by officers specially appointed in this behalf, to superin- to dispense medicines; and afford melical aid; and generally to do To superintend and see to the execution of any And to provide for the dispensing of medicines; ened with such epidemic, endemic, or contagious diseases such medical aid as may be required; And to do and provide all such acts, matters, and c. 123, s. 10. things as may be necessary for superintending 11 & 12 VICT. whatever necessary. &c. general or particular And the directions and regulations to be issued as Regulations, aforesaid shall extendTo all parts or places in which the provisions of may be this Act for the prevention of epidemic, endemic, applied to or contagious diseases shall for the time being places. be put in force under such orders as aforesaid, unless such directions and regulations shall be expressly confined to some of such parts or places, and then to such parts or places as in such directions and regulations shall be specified; which they may be made. And (subject to the power of revocation and Time for alteration herein contained) shall continue in forceSo long as the said provisions of this Act shall be in force, under such orders, in the parts or places to which such directions and regulations shall under this provision extend: case there missioners health in Ireland. Provided always, that if at any time in Ireland Proviso, in there shall not be any commissioners of health, the be no comlord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of of Ireland, by his or their warrants, may appoint so many persons as he or they may think fit, not being more in number than five, to act as commissioners of health in Ireland, without salary, fee, or reward: and may from time to time remove any of such commissioners, and appoint any other person in his stead; and such commissioners shall for all purposes be commissioners of health in Ireland within the meaning and for the purposes of this Act. One medical XI. And be it enacted, that Her Majesty may member of general board of health may to act during orders of privy coun cil. APPENDIX. from time to time, during the continuance of any order of Her Majesty's privy council, or of any members thereof as aforesaid, by warrant under the be appointed royal sign manual, appoint, in addition to the members for the time being of the general board of health, one fit person to be a medical member of such board for the purposes of this Act; and Her Majesty may, at her pleasure, remove any person so appointed; And there shall be paid to the person or persons so appointed such allowance or allowances as shall be parliament. appointed by the commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury, out of any monies which may from time to time be appointed by parliament for that purpose. Treasury to pay allow ances ap pointed by Poor law commis guardians, cute regulations and directions of the general health, &c. board of XII. And be it enacted, that the commissioners sioners, &c., for administering the laws for the relief of the poor may compel in England and Ireland respectively, and the board &c., to exe of supervision established under the said Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the relief of the poor in Scotland, may require the officers and persons acting under them to inquire into, superintend, and report on the execution of the directions and regulations of the general board of health, or commissioners of health, as the case may be, under this Act, and shall have the same powers for enforcing and directing the execution of such directions and regulations by the said guardians and parochial boards respectively as they now or may hereafter have in relation to any matter concerning the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor. Power of entry for the purpose of XIII. And be it enacted, that the said guardians and parochial boards acting in the execution of any gulations of such directions or regulations as aforesaid, or the enforcing re c. 123. health, &c. officers or persons by them in this behalf autho- 11 & 12 VICT. rized, at reasonable times in the daytime, may and the general they are hereby empowered to enter and inspect any board of dwelling or place, if there be ground for believing that any person may have recently died of any such epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease in any such dwelling or place, or that there is any filth or other matter dangerous to health therein or thereupon, or that necessity may otherwise exist for executing, in relation to the premises, all or any of such directions and regulations as aforesaid. guardians, out of for relief of XIV. And be it enacted, that the said guardians Expenses of and parochial boards may appoint or employ, for &c. to be the superintendence and execution of the said direc-funds (if any) tions and regulations, officers or persons in aid of the poor; the officers or persons employed in the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor; and such guardians and parochial boards respectively shall defray the expenses incurred by them respectively in the superintendence and execution of such directions and regulations out of the funds of their respective unions, parishes, or combinations; expenses of any And if any such shall have been incurred if none, out on account or in respect of any extra-parochial place public funds; in England or Ireland, the same shall, upon an order in writing specifying the sum to be paid, under the hands and seals of two justices, who are hereby empowered to make such order, upon proper application in this behalf, be paid or defrayed out of any public rates or funds raised therein or applicable thereto under the authority of parliament; Or in case there be no such rates or funds as last or out of aforesaid, then Out of the funds of the union or parish for which funds of adjoining unions, &c. APPENDIX. How to be defrayed in there be no assessment the guardians by whom the expenses have been incurred act; And in case any such expenses shall have been Scotland if incurred on account or in respect of any parish in Scotland in which it shall happen that there is not at the time an assessment for the relief of the poor imposed or levied, then for the poor. The same shall be paid or defrayed out of an assessment to be imposed and levied for that purpose, and to the extent necessary, under and in the manner provided by the said Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the relief of the poor in Scotland. XV. And be it enacted, that every order of Her Majesty's privy council, or of the lord lieutenant and privy council of Ireland, and every direction and regulation of the said general board of health or commissioners of health under this Act, shall, forthwith upon the issuing thereof, be laid before both houses of parliament, if parliament be then sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days next after the commencement of the then next session of parlia ment: And every such order of Her Majesty's privy council, or any members thereof, as aforesaid, shall be certified under the hand of the clerk in ordinary of Her Majesty's privy council, and shall be published in the "London Gazette;" And every such order of the lord lieutenant and privy council of Ireland shall be certified under the hand of one of the clerks of the privy council of Ireland, and shall be published in the "Dublin Gazette:" |