NEW BILLS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 900, 20 August 1910, Page 3

NEW BILLS.

. . PUBLIC HEALTH AMENDMENT. The amendments which Mr.' Sidey desires, to see made in the Public .Health Amendment Bill relate to the power to pull down ruinous or insanitary buildings. He proposes that ou the certificate of the District Health .Officer that any building or part-of a building is, by reason of its ruinous or iusanitary condition or otherwise, unlit for occupation or dangerous to-public health, the local authority may give notice to the owner thereof requiring him to -pair it down.' In lieu of requiring the owner to pull down any such, building, the local.. authority may,' by a like notice, require the- owner to make structural alterations. U' tho owner fails to comply .with" any such requisition, any. magistrate shall, on the application-of the:-local authority or the District Health Officer, and after notice- ■to . the. owner, order such building or any part thereof to be pulled down at the expense in all things of 'the owner. .If the local authority fails to give snch the District ' Health Officer may himself give notice to the owner. It' within the'time named the owner fails to comply with the requisition, it shall be' lawful "for any magistrate, after":hearing such, evidence , as may bo. adduced, for or against an application, to order 'such building or any part thereof to be-pulled down at v the expense- in all things rf the owner.

; J HERBALISTS:.;', .:■• ■'■■ , ' It is provided.- under, Mr. Wilford"s Herbalists Bill thnt/roni and after the pasirig of the Act no person, shall be' entitled to. use the name or ■ carry on business, under the title of herbalist .(either alone or in combination with other words) unless he is registered under this Act, arid , any person doing so in breach of this -section shall bo liable 'upon summary conviction to a fine uot exceeding J;2o.': M The following persons shall fo jentitled to be registered under this Act:—{aJ'AUpersons who shall have for five years prior'to the'commencement of this -Act kept; open fehop in New Zealand as a herbalist or dispenser of herbal or botanical medicines; (b). all persons who shall.-have for/five years prior to application--.for: registration, kept such: open shop in any.part of the British dominions other'HhanTSWZealandj (c) all persons who shall have passed the examination" provided, and shall have served fdr, at least; three years .under .articles of apprenticeship as tho. apprentice of a person, v or—persons.. registered ■- or- entitled; to be 'regisfcred'"jinder this Act. The fioyernor-in-Council 'may'-'from ■ time to time appoint n . person or persons to conduct examinations' under/the Act, and maj| make regulations prescribing the subjcct-mattef'of arid;the;.mode.df.carrying out such; examinations, and otherwise in respent,thereto. -.. -The 'Registrar-' General shaU'/rigister:'all.'person? who, shall satisfy entitled to registration''"unde'r" this .Act, and., the RegistraiSGeu'eval may.remove'from such' ixHik 'the ; haine of- any person' who is dead .or wlio..in :his.. opinion.', is, not at tho time in question- entitled to ue 60 I rogietereil.--'- An 'appeal .sliall lie to the Supreme Court'in a summary manner from any- refusal by-the-.Registrar-Gen-. oral'to register any ; or from: any removal by the Registrar-General- of any nam'e : fronr'the'' book: "Nothing in : this . Act shall "apply, tc or -affects any duly qualified medical practitioner or any person registered' under' the I 'Pharmacy 'Act, , , 1908.-' ..;."'■■••';■.'■■■.■ - - ,■•■;'■ ;■■'-";■ ' EnnER'BO,VEDS AMENDJtENT. ' It'' is provided' in the "■ Eiver 'Boards .'Amendment Bill, which -was circulated yesterday,'that a river board may pur--chase or otherwise acquire (but not by compulsory taking) any- land which is in. danger of. being, or is, injuriously affected by any ■ or .operations undertaken or intended to bo undertaken by that board, an"d the "board may dispose of ■or otherwise- deal; with that- land or any .part, thereof .as it /thinks.'fit'." .'The, provisions : of tho Rating' Act, 1908, shall so far as applicable apply to the making and levying of rates-under the principal Act. .',,■- /.;■ ■•''..-:.. ." COMPANIES AMENDMENT. In a memorandum- to the Companies Amendment Bill, which was circulated yesterday,, the Crown Law' Office states that decisions of the English Court of Appeal in. re. Taslter. and .Sons, Limited (1903); 2 Ch. 587, and in re Russian Petroleum Company,'.'" Limited (1907), 2 Gh. 540,: have-established'tho rule that, a company has no power to reissue debentures after having redeemed them or deposited them with a bank as temporary security for an overdraft. These decisions invalidated transactions of .such, number and magnitude that the Imperial Parliament in 1907 passed retrospective legislation validating . all. such reissues of debentures andaltering tho law for the future.' Tho present, Bill-adopts the English provisions'onthis -subject, as now contained .in Section 101 of the Imperial , Companies Consolidation Act, 1908.