Jan. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 249

Regulations under “The Infant Life Protection Act, 1896.”

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twentieth day of January, 1897.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the thirty-eighth section of “The Infant Life Protection Act, 1896” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations for all or any of the purposes in the said Act mentioned, and it is expedient to make the regulations hereinafter set forth: Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the several purposes in the said Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

1. In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context and the terms of “The Infant Life Protection Act, 1896” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”),—

“Inspector” means the principal officer in charge of a police-station affected by these regulations; or any Inspector appointed or authorised as such under the provisions of the said Act:

Generally, terms and expressions used in these regulations which are similar to terms and expressions used in the said Act shall have the like meanings as are attached thereto by such Act.

2. Applications for registration may be made by any person being the bonâ fide occupier of a house who desires to be registered under the said Act, provided that such house shall also be registered for the purposes of the said Act. Every such application shall be made in the Form A hereto, and shall be addressed to the Commissioner, and lodged with the police officer in charge of the station where the applicant resides.

3. Every such application shall contain the particulars required by the said Act; and the Inspector shall, on receipt thereof, make such inquiry as appears necessary, or as he may be directed by the Commissioner, and shall report to him. If the Commissioner is satisfied that the applicant should be registered, and that the house is suitable for the purpose, he shall issue a license accordingly.

4. A license shall be in the Form B hereto. If the application be refused the Commissioner shall inform the applicant accordingly, through the Inspector.

5. A register shall be kept under the Act at the office of the Commissioner, at Wellington; and such register shall contain the particulars set forth in the Form C, and shall be kept in custody of Commissioner, who shall cause to be entered in such register the particulars required by the said Act and these regulations.

6. Every license granted or registration effected under the Act shall, unless cancelled under the provisions thereof, remain in force until the 31st day of the month of December next following the making of such registration, and no longer, unless the same be renewed.

Licenses and registrations may be renewed on the 31st day of December in which the same expire, and all such renewed licenses and registrations shall, unless cancelled as aforesaid, remain in force for one year from the expiration of such month of December in which the same are made. An application for renewal shall be in the like form as an original application, but shall indicate that it is for a renewal.

7. No fee shall be charged or taken for the making of any registration or renewed registration effected under the said Act and these regulations.

8. Houses registered under the said Act shall be classified according to the floor-area available for infants, which shall be determined on the basis specified hereunder, namely,—

(a.) The floor-area of the house shall be taken to be the total internal floor-area of all the rooms of the house, the following deductions having been made—namely: (1) That of the passages and stairways, of the bathroom, of the kitchen and scullery, and of any lean-to imperfectly closed or of less height than 7ft. in any part; (2) that of any room or rooms specially set apart as sitting- or receiving-rooms, and not regularly occupied either by day or by night; (3) that of any cupboard or dresser, extending down to or within 7ft. of the floor; (4) that of any room or rooms having a smaller area than 90 square feet, or having no open chimney or flue, or having no readily open windows, or having a glazed window-surface of smaller area than two-thirds of a square yard; (5) that of any room or rooms, or of portion of room or rooms, of less height than 7ft.; and (6) that of any cellar or cellars.

(b.) The floor-area available for infants, hereinafter called “the available floor-area,” shall be taken to be the floor-area minus such area as is required for the other occupants of the house, including the attendant or attendants on the infants, and allowing 50 square feet as the requirement for each such occupant.

9. The classification of houses registered shall be as follows:—

(a.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 50 square feet, to receive not more than one infant;

(b.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 100 square feet, to receive not more than two infants;

(c.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 150 square feet, to receive not more than three infants;

(d.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 200 square feet, and with an outdoor area of at least 400 square feet, to receive not more than four infants;

(e.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 275 square feet, with an outdoor area of at least 400 square feet, to receive not more than five infants;

(f.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 350 square feet, with an outdoor area of at least 400 square feet, to receive not more than six infants;

(g.) Houses with available floor-area exceeding 350 square feet, with an outdoor area of an least 400 square feet, to be specially considered as to the maximum number of infants to be admitted.

10. The Commissioner, or any member of the Police Force authorised in that behalf by the Commissioner, accompanied by a legally-qualified medical practitioner and female Inspector, if the Commissioner or such member of the Police Force (as the case may be) think fit, may at all reasonable hours in the day-time inspect any house registered under the Act, and any infant or infants under the care of the occupier of such house.

11. The occupier of any house so registered shall permit the Commissioner, or any member of the Police Force or female Inspector so authorised as aforesaid, or any such medical practitioner, to inspect such house, or any part thereof, and the fittings and furniture thereof, at any reasonable hour in the day-time, and also shall, on being so required by the Commissioner, or any such member of the Police Force, medical practitioner, or female Inspector, produce for his or their inspection any infant or infants in the care or control of such occupier. And if such occupier shall commit a breach of this regulation he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

12. Any person registered under the said Act who shall have charge of a greater number of infants than the number allowed by or under these regulations for the house occupied by such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

13. Every person registered under the Act shall from time to time keep the roll required by the tenth section of the Act, and shall comply with and observe the provisions of that section in every respect.

Every such person shall also from time to time, as occasion requires, comply with and observe the requirements of section 13 of the Act respecting the notice to be given in respect of the death of an infant as therein provided.

14. Female Inspectors may be appointed under clause 12 of the said Act, and shall have the same powers as to inspection as provided for in clauses 10 and 11 of these regulations, and shall have power to examine the house, infants, and books as provided for in the said Act.

15. Before an infant is weaned in order that it may be licensed out under this Act, a certificate from a duly-qualified registered medical man, stating that the child is strong enough to be taken from its mother, must be handed over to the licensee with the child, and must be produced upon demand of any person entitled to call for such production.

16. Particulars of every warrant by the Minister exempting, or order by a Justice of the Peace suspending, the operation of the provisions of section 3 of the said Act shall be entered in a book to be kept in the office of the Minister at Wellington, in the form set forth in Form K in the Schedule hereto.

Every application for exemption or suspension of the provisions of section 3 aforesaid shall be in writing signed by the applicant.

17. In the event of the loss or destruction of a license, the Commissioner shall, before issuing a duplicate license, obtain from the applicant a statutory declaration setting