A

BILL

FOR

Transferring the Powers of the General Board of
Health to a Committee of the Privy Council.

W

123.

19 & 20 Vict.

HEREAS under the Acts of the Session holden in the Preamble. Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter 11 & 12 Vict. Sixty-three and Chapter One hundred and twenty-three, cc. 63. and and under other Acts of Parliament, certain Powers and Duties of per5 manent Application are vested in the General Board of Health: And whereas the said Board, as re-constituted by the Act of the Session holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, 17 & 18 Vict. Chapter Ninety-five, is by the Act of the Session holden in the Nine- c. 95. teenth and Twentieth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-five, c. 85. 10 continued for One Year after the passing of the last-mentioned Act, and thenceforth until the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the said General Board of Health should be discontinued, and that permanent Provision should be made for the Exercise of the Powers and Duties now vested in the said 15 Board: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. When Her Majesty, by Order made with the Advice of Her 20 Privy Council, shall have appointed a Committee of Her said Council,

On the Appointment of

& Committee

for Health, the General

Board of Health to cease, and its Powers to be transferred to such Committee.

Power to
continue

Officers ap-
pointed by
Board of
Health.

Pending

to be styled "The Committee of Council for Health," then upon
the Publication of such Order in the London Gazette, or on
such subsequent Day as by the Order may be appointed for
that Purpose, the General Board of Health shall cease, and all
Powers and Duties vested in the General Board of Health under 5
the Acts herein-before mentioned or any other Act of Parliament,
or which might have been exercised or performed by such Board
if it had not ceased and if its Duration had not been limited,
shall become transferred to and vested in and may be exercised
and performed by the Lords of the Committee of Council for 10
Health; and all Provisions in any Act of Parliament and in any
Order of the General Board of Health, and all Instruments and
Documents whatever in which the General Board of Health or any
Superintending Inspector or Officer of such Board is mentioned or
referred to, shall, so far as may not be inconsistent with the 15
Provisions of this Act, be construed as referring to the Committee
of Council for Health or to the Superintending Inspector or Officer of
such Committee.

II. It shall be lawful for the Lords of the said Committee, with the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to 20 continue for the Transaction of the Business transferred to the Lord's of the said Committee under this Act all or any of the Officers and Superintending Inspectors appointed by the said General Board of Health, and from Time to Time to remove such Officers and Superintending Inspectors or any of them.

III. All Inquiries and Proceedings, Matters and Things comProceedings. menced by or under the Authority of the Board hereby determined may be proceeded with and completed by and under the Authority of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Health.

Acts of the of Council how to be

signified.

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IV. Any Order, Direction, Regulation, Appointment, Certificate, 30 Committee Notice, or other Act in execution of the Powers and Duties hereby transferred to the Committee of Council for Health, which, if the General Board of Health had been continued, should have been made or issued under the Seal of the General Board of Health and the Hand of the President, or the Hands of Two or more Members 35 thereof, or in any other Manner or Form, and all other Acts which may be hereafter authorized or required to be done by the Committee of Council for Health, may be signified by a written or printed Document, sealed or stamped with the Seal of the said Committee and signed by a Secretary or other Officer appointed 40 by the said Committee to sign Documents, and no other Signature or Sealing shall be requisite; and every Order, Direction, Regula

tion,

tion, Appointment, Certificate, Notice, or other Act signified by a written or printed Document purporting to be so signed and to be sealed or stamped with such Seal shall be deemed to have been duly made, issued, or done by the said Committee, and every such 5 Document shall be received in Evidence in all Courts and before all Justices and others without Proof of the Seal or of the Authority or Signature of such Secretary or other Officer, or other Proof whatsoever, until it be shown that such Document was not signed by the Authority of the said Committee.

A

BILL

ΤΟ

Continue the General Board of Health.

W

HEREAS by the Act of the Session holden in the Seven- Preamble. teenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter

Ninety-five, "to make better Provision for the Adminis- 17 & 18 Vict. "tration of the Laws relating to the Public Health," it was provided, c.95. 5 that the General Board of Health should be continued only for One Year next after the Day of the passing of that Act, and thenceforth until the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas by an Act of the Session holden in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-five, the said Board stands 19 & 20 Vict. 10 continued for One Year after the Day of the passing of that Act, c. 85. and thenceforth until the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the said Board should be further continued: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual 15 and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows; (that is to say,)

I. The said Board shall be continued until the First Day of Board of September One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.

Health fur

ther continued.