Part II Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions
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C25F2 Provisions as to notification of diseases. C1
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Notwithstanding anything in the
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Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, or in any other Act, or in any Order of the Local Government Board, the following provisions shall have effect:—
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Every case of any such disease occurring in any building, tent, van, shed, or similar structure in the occupation of any of His Majesty’s forces, or of any person employed F4under the Ministry of Defence shall be notified to the F5chief administrative medical officer of the Health Board for the area by the medical attendant if it would have been his duty to notify it if it had occurred elsewhere; and the F5Health Board shall pay to the medical attendant (unless he is a medical officer who holds a commission in any of His Majesty’s forces) for the certificate or notification a fee of one shilling, whether the case occurs in his private practice or otherwise.
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12 Simplifying mode of giving sanctions, &c.
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Notwithstanding any statutory or other provision requiring a sanction, assent, approval, authority or direction of the Local Government Board to be given, altered or varied by order or by instrument under seal, any such sanction, assent, approval, authority or direction may be given, altered or varied in a letter or other writing signed by a secretary or assistant secretary of the Board, and shall be as valid in all respects and shall have the same effect as if it had been given by an order of the Board or by an instrument under the seal of the Board, and for the purposes of the M2Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by any subsequent enactment, such letter or writing shall be deemed to be an order of the Board.
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This section shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland.