Tuberculosis Amendment Act 1950
Tuberculosis Amendment Act 1950
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Tuberculosis Amendment Act 1950
Public Act |
1950 No 19 |
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Date of assent |
4 September 1950 |
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Contents
An Act to Amend the Tuberculosis Act, 1948.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
1948, No. 36
This Act may be cited as the Tuberculosis Amendment Act, 1950, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Tuberculosis Act, 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Section 8 of principal Act (as to power of entry in certain cases) amended.
Section eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one, and also from subsection two, the words “or district nurse”
, and substituting in each case the words “district nurse or Inspector of Health under the Health Act, 1920
3 Section 16 of principal Act (as to isolation, in certain cases, of persons likely to spread infection) amended.
(1)
Section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection eight, the following subsection:—
“(8A)
Subject to the provisions of subsection nine of this section, while any order under this section for the detention of a patient in any institution or other place continues in force, the medical officer or other person in charge of the institution or place shall detain the patient or cause him to be detained in that institution or place, by force if necessary.”
(2)
The said section sixteen is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection twelve, the following subsection:—
“(12A)
If any person who is removed to or detained in any institution or other place pursuant to an order under this section leaves the institution or place while the order continues in force, then (without prejudice to any proceedings that may be taken against him or any other person in respect of an offence under this section) that person may be arrested by an officer of the Department of Health or by any member of the staff of that institution or place or by any constable without warrant and delivered’ forthwith, by force if necessary, to the same or another suitable institution or place. If in any such case the patient is delivered to any institution or place other than that to which the order relates, the person by whom he was arrested shall, as soon as may be practicable, cause him to be removed to the institution or place to which the order relates. Until he is so removed the institution or place to which he was so delivered shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be an institution or place to which the order relates, and the provisions of this section shall apply accordingly.”
(3)
The said section sixteen is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection nine the words “subsections three to eight and subsections ten to twelve”
, and substituting the words “subsections three to eight a and subsections ten to twelve”
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(4)
The said section sixteen is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection five the words “the Magistrate may, if he thinks fit, require the patient to be examined by any medical practitioner”
, and substituting the words “the Magistrate shall require the patient to he examined by two medical practitioners”
.
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Tuberculosis Amendment Act 1950
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