Page:UKSRO 1890.pdf/119
provide for such Regulations being enforced and executed by the Officers of Customs, as well as by other Authorities and Officers, and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by the said Section, may provide for the detention of vessels and of persons on board vessels, and for the duties to be performed by Pilots, Masters of Vessels, and other persons on board vessels; provided that the Regulations, so far as they apply to the Officers of Customs, shall be subject to the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs;
And whereas by certain Orders dated the 12th day of July 1883,<r2> and an Order dated the 21st day of April 1884,<r3> We prescribed Rules and Regulations with a view to the treatment of persons affected with cholera, and for preventing the spread of the disease, and it is expedient that such Orders should be revoked, and that further Regulations should be prescribed as herein-after mentioned, to which the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs have signified their consent so far as such Regulations apply to the Officers of Customs:
Now therefore, We, the Local Government Board, do hereby revoke the aforesaid Orders, except in so far as they may apply to any proceedings now pending, and We do, by this Our Order, and in exercise of the power conferred on Us by the Public Health Act, 1875<r3>, as amended and extended by the Public Health Act, 1889<r4>, and every other power enabling Us in that behalf, make the following Regulations, and declare that they shall be enforced and executed by the Authorities herein-after named:-
Art. 1. In this Order-
Definitions.
The term "Ship" includes vessel or boat;
The term "Officer of Customs" includes any person acting under the authority of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs;
The term "Master" includes the officer, pilot, or other person for the time being in charge or command of the ship;
The term "Cholera " includes choleraic diarrhea;
The term "Sanitary Authority" means every Port Sanitary Authority and every Urban or Rural Sanitary Authority whose district includes or abuts on any part of a customs port, which part is not within the jurisdiction of a Port Sanitary Authority;
The term "Medical Officer of Health" includes any duly qualified medical practitioner appointed by a Sunitary Authority to act in the execution of this Order;
<r1> Published in London Gazette July 13, 1883, pp. 3533-3535, <r2> Published in London Gazette April 22, 1884, p. 1313. <r3> 38 & 39 Vict: c. 55.
<r4> 52 & 58 Vict. c. 64.