Bill 11 (Legislature 7, Session 3)

L7 S3 8681

Alberta — Bills

Bill No. 11 of 1933. A BILL TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT. NOTE. The effect of

section 2 of this Bill is to give the Provincial Board of Health, with the approval of the Lieutenant Gov ernor in Council, additional powers of regulation with re spect to mausoleums, and to amplify the powers of inspec tion, regulation and licensing of dairies, dairy farms, and the business of processing, handling and distributing dairy products. It also gives the Board the power to make regulations as to the responsibility of local boards with respect to com municable diseases and as to persons infected with tuber culosis.

Section 3 of the Bill provides for the delegation of certain powers of regulation to local boards. R. ANDREW SMITH, Leg,islative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Hill .and is offered merely as a partial explanation of some of its lYf'Ovisions.)

BILL No. 11 of 1933.

An Act to amend The Public Health Act. (Assented to , 1933.) HIS MAJ~ST~, by and with the advice and consent of the LegIslatIve Assembly of the Province of Alberta, e.nacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Public HeaUh Act Amendment Act, 1933." 2. The Public Health Act, being

chapter 58 of the Re vised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is hereby amended as to

section 7 thereof- (

a) by striking out the words "and the transportation of corpses" where the same occur at the end of clause (

i) of subsection (1) thereof, and by sub stituting therefor the words "the transportatio.n of corpses, the location, construction, maintenance and operation of any public mausoleum, the financial and other provisions to be made for the future care of any public mausoleum and any corpses therein, the prohibition of the construction of any building, erection or structure intended to be used as a mausoleum, and the prohibition of the future re ception of corpses into any mausoleum" ; (

b) by striking out cIa use (

u) of subsectio.n (1) thereof and by substituting therefor the following: " (

u) The inspection and licensing of dairies and dairy farms, the methods of construction, fur nishing, equipping, managing, maintaining, cleansing and disinfection to be used in the operation of dairies and dairy farms, the test ing of dairy. cattle for tuberculosis or any other contagious or infectious disease, the in spection and licensing of persons engaged in the business of processing milk, cream and butter fats, or any of them, and of persons engaged in any or all of the businesses of handling, preparation for market and distri bution of any fluid cream or fluid milk, and the places at which any cream or milk is processed or received or kept by any persons as last aforesaid, the establishment of stand ards or grades of cream and milk according to the butter fat or other conte.nt thereof, the prescription of names to be used as descrip-

2 tive or any established standard and the pro hibition of the sale of any cream or milk under any prescribed name which is below any pre scribed standard, and generally any matter or thing relating to the industry of the pro duction of milk 'and cream and any products thereof which have any bearing direct or in direct on public health"; (

c) by adding at the end of subsection (1) thereof the following two new clauses: "

(00) The responsibility of local boards for the treatment and maintenance of persons suf fering from a communicable disease, and how and by whom the expense of such shall be borne, and the method of determining the residence of such persons; " ('pp) The course of conduct to be pursued by any person infected with tuberculosis in order to prevent the infection of other persons, and where necessary, the removal to and deten tion in the Central Alberta Sanatorium, hos pitals, approved homes or other institu tions for persons suffering from tubercu losis." 3. The said Act is further amended as to

section 21 there of by adding at the end of subsection (1) the words "and the Provincial Board may in regUlations made and issued under subsection (1) of

section 7 delegate to such local board such of the power and authority of the Provincial Board as in the opiniol1 of the latter may be necessary to enable the local board to carry out satisfactorily the pro visions of this Act." 4. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 11. THIRD SESSION SEVENTH LEGISLATURE 23 GEORGE V 1933 BILL

An Act to amend The Public Health Act. Received and read the First Second time __ _ Third time_ HON. MR. HOADLEY EDMONTON: "v. D. McLEAN, KING'S PmNTEH 1933 Title: 1933 (7th, 3rd) Bill 11,

An Act to amend The Public Health Act

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