An Ordinance to amend The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880, and to repeal The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880, Amendment Ordinance, 1881.

  • Ceylon.
Date:
1882
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Credit: An Ordinance to amend The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880, and to repeal The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880, Amendment Ordinance, 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof. Preamble. Title, Ordinance to be construed as one with Ordinance 17 of 1880, Date of operation. Special fund to defray cost of medical care of labourers. To be called the “ Medical Aid Fund.” Governor to appoint superintending medical officers. Salaries Of officers so appointed. No. 9.—1882. J. K, Longden. An Ordinance to amend “ Tlie Medical W ants Ordinance, 1880,” and to repeal “ The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880, Amendment Ordinance, 1881.” WHEREAS it is expedient to amend “The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880,” and to repeal “ The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880, Amendment Ordinance, 1881”: Be it enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :— 1. This Ordinance may be cited as “ The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880, Amendment Ordinance, 1882.” 2. This Ordinance and “ The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880,” hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance, shall be read and construed as one Ordinance, save so much of the principal Ordinance as is hereby repealed. 3. ThiS' Ordinance and the principal Ordinance shall together come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1883. 4. For the purpose of providing a special fund to defray the cost of the medical care of labourers on estates under this and the principal Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, from time to lime by Proclama- tion in the Gazette^ to impose a duty, and the same from time to time to increase or reduce, not exceeding ten cents per hundred- weight on coffee, tea, and cocoa, and twenty cents per hundred- weight on cinchona, which duty shall be levied at the Customs on the entry for exportation of all coffee, tea, cocoa, and cinchona, and shall be payable to, and shall be collected and received by the proper officers of the Customs Department; and the payment there- of shall be enforced under the provisions of the Ordinance 17 of 1869, intituled “An Ordinance for the general regulation of Customs in the Island of Ceylon.” 5. The duty to be collected under the authority of the last preceding clause shall be paid into the Treasury, and shall be carried to the credit of a fund to be called the “ Medical Aid Fund,” and shall be applied and devoted to defray the expenses incurred under this Ordinance, and to no other purpose whatever. And an account current of such fund shall be made up annually and published in the Gazette for general information. 6. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint superin- tending medical officers, not exceeding three in number, for the purposes of this Ordinance, and to assign to them salaries com- mencing at Rs. 5,000 per annum, and rising by quinquennial increments of Rs. 500 until a maximum salary of Rs. 8,000