The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Public Health Act Amendment Act, 1875.”

The nineteenth section of “The Public Health Act, 1872,” (hereinafter called “the said Act”) is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the Governor in Council may make orders from time to time directing that the provisions contained in sections twenty to forty-five of the said Act, both inclusive, or any of them, be put in force in New Zealand, or in such parts thereof or in such places therin, as in such orders respectively may be expressed, and may in like manner revoke any such order; and, subject to revocation, every such order shall be in force for such period as shall be expressed in such order, and in case no period shall be expressed in such order, then such order shall be in force until revocation thereof; and every such order shall be published in the Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence of such order to all intents and purposes; and none of the said provisions shall be in force in any part of New Zealand until an order directing the same to be put in force shall have been made and published as aforesaid:

Provided that any order made under the section of the said Act hereby repealed which may be in force at the passing of this Act shall continue in force until the same shall have been revoked under this Act.