Anno undecimo & duodecimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. LXIII. An act for promoting the public health. [31st August 1848.].

Date:
1848
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Credit: Anno undecimo & duodecimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. LXIII. An act for promoting the public health. [31st August 1848.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Local Boards of Health. Declaration to be made by Members of Local Boards be- fore acting. False Decla- ration a Mis- demeanor. Persons neglecting to make Decla- ration or to act for Three Months to cease to be a Member. Disqualifi- cations. 11° & 12° VICTORIA, Cap.63. Provisional Order as aforesaid (as the Case may require), within the Limits next herein-after provided, or be so resident, and rated to the Relief of the Poor of some Parish, Township, or Place of which some Part is within such District or Part of a District, upon such annual Value as shall be fixed by such Order in Council or Provisional Order (as the Case may require), within the Limits next herein-after provided : Provided always, that it shall not he lawful to require that any Person he seised or possessed as aforesaid to a Value or Amount exceeding One thousand Pounds, or to require that any Person be rated upon an annual Value exceeding Thirty Pounds; provided also, that if Two or more Persons he jointly seised or possessed of Real or Personal Estate, or both, of such Value or Amount as would, if equally divided between them, qualify each to be elected, or if Two or more Persons be jointly rated in respect of any Property which if equally divided between them would qualify each to be so elected, each of the Persons so jointly seised, possessed, or rated may be elected ; but the same Property shall not at the same Time qualify both the Owner and the Occupier thereof. XVII. And be it enacted, That no Person elected as aforesaid, or selected by any Council otherwise than out of their Number, shall act as Member of the Local Board of Health (except in administering the following Declaration) until he shall have made and signed before Two or more other Members for the District for which he is elected a Declaration in Writing to the Effect following; (that is to say,) ‘ J A.B. do solemnly declare, That 1 am seised or possessed of Real ‘ or Personal [or Real and Personal] Estate to the Value or ‘ Amount of [or that I am rated to the Relief of the ‘ Poor of upon the annual Value of ]. (Signed) A.B.' ‘ Made before us, C. D. and E. F., Members of ‘ the Local Board of Plealth for the District of * this Day of And such Declaration shall be made and signed by the Person making the same, and shall be filed and kept by the Clerk ; and anv Person who shall falsely or corruptly make and subscribe the said Declaration, knowing the same to be untrue in any material Particular, shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor. XVIII. And be it enacted, That any Person elected as aforesaid, or selected by any Council otherwise than out of their own Number, who neglects to make and subscribe the Declaration required by this Act for the Space of Three Months next after his Selection or Election, and any Person selected or elected under this Act who during Three successive Months is absent from all Meetings and Committees of the Local Board of Health of which he is elected or selected to be Member, shall be deemed to have refused to act, and shall cease to be a Member of such Local Board, and his Office as such shall thereupon become vacant. XIX. And be it enacted, That no Bankrupt, Insolvent, or other Person not qualified as aforesaid shall be capable of being elected as aforesaid;