Num. 61.

1339

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1900.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1900.

Certain Local Governing Areas declared to be subject to
“The Bubonic Plague Prevention Act, 1900.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon
him by “The Bubonic Plague Prevention Act, 1900,”
His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
hereby declares that the local governing areas mentioned or
referred to in the Schedule hereto are subject to that Act.

SCHEDULE.

LOCAL GOVERNING AREAS DECLARED TO BE SUBJECT TO “THE
BUBONIC PLAGUE PREVENTION ACT, 1900.”

1. ALL cities, boroughs, counties, town districts, and road
   districts in the Provincial Districts of Auckland, Taranaki,
   and Otago.
2. The Borough of Wanganui.
3. The Counties of Wanganui and Waitotara.
4. The Borough of Westport.
5. The County of Buller south of the River Karamea.
6. The County of Inangahua.
7. The Boroughs of Brunner and Greymouth.
8. The County of Grey.
9. The Boroughs of Hokitika, Kumara, and Ross.
10. The County of Westland.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this eleventh day of July, one thousand nine
hundred.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

“The Bubonic Plague Prevention Act, 1900.”

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th July, 1900.

THE following “Act to make Special Provision with
respect to the Bubonic Plague” is published for
general information.

J. G. WARD.

1900, No. 1.

AN ACT to make Special Provision with respect to the
Bubonic Plague.
[28th June, 1900.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is expedient to make special provision to pre-
vent or check the disease known as the bubonic plague :

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New
Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:—

Short Title.

1. The Short Title of this Act is “The Bubonic Plague
   Prevention Act, 1900,” and it shall form part of “The Public
   Health Act, 1876.”

Operation of Act.

2. (1.) This Act shall have operation only within such cities,
   boroughs, counties, town districts, and other local governing
   areas as the Governor from time to time, by notice in the
   Gazette, declares to be subject to this Act.

(2.) Such notice may in like manner be revoked by the
Governor in whole or in part, as he thinks fit; and in such
case, and from the date of the gazetting of the revoking
notice, this Act shall cease to have operation within the
local governing area specified in the revoking notice.

Governor to have powers of Board of Health or local authority.

3. For the better prevention of the bubonic plague the
   Governor shall have and may exercise within any local
   governing area subject to this Act all the powers which by
   “The Public Health Act, 1876,” are conferred upon the
   Local Board of Health, or by “The Municipal Corporation
   Act, 1896,” “The Counties Act, 1886,” or other local govern-
   ing Act are conferred upon the local authority under such
   Act.

Additional powers of Governor.

4. In addition to and irrespective of the powers conferred
   upon the Governor by the last preceding section hereof, he
   shall also have and may exercise from time to time within
   any such local governing area as aforesaid full and abso-
   lute power and authority to direct, require, and enforce, in
   such manner and by such means in all respects as he thinks
   fit,—

(1.) The isolation, quarantining, inspection, examina-
tion, disinfection, and curative treatment of per-
sons, premises, and things;

(2.) The cleansing of premises and things;

(3.) The destruction of buildings and things;

(4.) The control and direction of ships from infected
ports or places, including the berthing and dis-
charge of the ships and the treatment of the
cargo;

(5.) The observance of such sanitary rules as he thinks
fit to prescribe;

(6.) The establishment and use of special hospitals,
quarantine-stations, or places;