Num. 107.

3579

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1907.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1907.

Regulations under “The Infant Life Protection Act, 1907.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of December, 1907.

Present:
The Right Honourable Sir J. G. Ward, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by “The Infant Life Protection Act, 1907” (hereinafter termed “the Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations, and doth also declare that the said regulations shall come into force and take effect on and after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eight:—

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of these regulations,—
   “District Agent” means an officer who is appointed by the Minister of Education to be an agent of the Department of Education for the purposes of the Act:
   “Local Visitor” means a person whose name is registered in the office of a District Agent as undertaking to maintain a regular supervision of an infant or infants coming within the operation of the Act, and to make monthly reports to the District Agent as to the well-being of such infant or infants.

2. Every application for a license under the Act shall be in the prescribed form. It shall be addressed to the Secretary for Education, and lodged with the District Agent of the district within which the applicant resides.

3. When an infant is taken into a foster-home the foster-parent shall forthwith supply the Secretary for Education with the name and other particulars of the infant on the prescribed form. The form shall be lodged with the District Agent.

4. Except by special sanction of the Minister of Education, no person who is in receipt of charitable aid shall be licensed as a foster-parent.

5. The foster-parent shall keep a record-book in the Form No. 4 in the Schedule hereto, and shall enter the particulars therein specified immediately after the occurrence of the incidents to be recorded.

6. Every foster-home and the infants maintained therein shall be visited regularly by an officer duly appointed under the Act. Such visits shall be made as frequently as the individual circumstances of each case require, but in no case shall an infant under one year of age be visited less often than once in two months, nor an infant over that age less often than once in four months.

7. Foster-parents are required to promptly comply with any direction given by a District Agent or other duly authorised person in the execution of his duty.

8. Foster-parents must always allow all reasonable facilities to Local Visitors for ascertaining the condition of infants placed in foster-homes.

9. Foster-parents must treat infants with all the care and kindness suited to their tender age.

10. If an infant becomes so ill as in the judgment of the foster-parent of such infant to need medical attendance, the foster-parent shall by the most speedy means call upon the father, mother, or other near relative of such infant to provide such medical attendance; but if it is not practicable to communicate promptly with a near relative of the infant, or if for any reason there is delay in the arrival of medical aid, the foster-parent shall on her own responsibility immediately obtain the attendance of a medical practitioner. The foster-parent on the occurrence of such illness must inform the District Agent without any delay.

11. If the license of a foster-parent is revoked on the ground that any infant in her charge has been improperly treated, the revocation may include the forfeiture of any moneys for the maintenance of such infant that would otherwise be due to her.