Public Health Act 1896
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1896 c. 19 |
| Year | 1896 |
Public Health Act, 1896
(59 & 60 Vict.) CHAPTER 19.
An Act to make further Provision with respect to Epidemic, Endemic, and Infectious Diseases, and to repeal the Acts relating to Quarantine.
[7th August 1896]
B E 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:
1 Amendment of 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55. ss. 130, 134, as to regulations with respect to disease.
(1)1.—(1.) Regulations of the Local Government Board made in pursuance of section one hundred and thirty or section one hundred and thirty-four of the Public Health Act, 1875, or in pursuance of either of those sections, as extended to London by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, may provide for such regulations being enforced and executed by the officers of Customs and the officers and men employed in the Coastguard as well as by other authorities and officers, and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by those sections may provide for—
(a ) the signals to be hoisted by vessels having any case of epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease on board; and
(b ) the questions to be answered by masters, pilots, and other persons on board any vessel as to cases of such disease on board during, the voyage or on the arrival of the vessel; and
(c ) the detention of vessels and of persons on board vessels: and
(d ) the duties to be performed in cases of such disease by masters, pilots, and other persons on board vessels.
(2) (2.) Provided that the regulations shall be subject to the consent—
(a ) so far as they apply to the officers of Customs, of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs; and
(b ) so far as they apply to officers or men employed in the Coastguard, of the Admiralty; and
(c ) so far as they apply to signals, of the Board of Trade.
(3) (3.) If any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out, or obstructs the execution of, any regulation made under section one hundred and thirty or section one hundred and thirty-four of the Public Health Act, 1875, or in pursuance of either of those sections as extended to London by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 , and as amended by this Act, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for every day during which the offence continues; and any such penalty, if not recovered under the provisions of the Acts relating to public health, shall be recoverable by action on behalf of the Crown in the High Court.
2 Transfer of powers under 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36. s. 234.
2. The powers exerciseable by Her Majesty in Council or any two of the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council under section two hundred and thirty-four of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, shall be exerciseable by the Local Government Board, and accordingly in that section the words ‘the Local Government Board’ shall be substituted for the words ‘Her Majesty in Council or any two Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Council.’
3 Application to Scotland.
(1)3.—(1.) This Act shall apply to Scotland with the following modifications:—
(a. ) References to the Local Government Board shall be construed as references to the Local Government Board for Scotland, and references to the High Court as references to the Court of Session;
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