S.I. No. 171/1949 - Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (Amendment) Regulations, 1949.

S.I. No. 171 of 1949.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES (MAINTENANCE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1949.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers vested in him by Section 44 of the Health Act, 1947 , hereby makes the following regulations :—

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (Amendment) Regulations, 1949.

(2) In these regulations, the expression " the Principal Regulations " means the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1948 ( S.I. No. 21 of 1948 ).

(3) These regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Principal Regulations and the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) (Amendment) Regulations, 1948 ( S.I. No. 313 of 1948 ), and may be collectively cited therewith as the Infectious Diseases (Maintenance) Regulations, 1948 and 1949.

2. Article 2 of the Principal Regulations shall be amended by the insertion after the word " applies " in the definition of the word " person " of the words " by virtue of subsection (1) of that section. "

3. Article 5 of the Principal Regulations, shall be amended by the substitution in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1), sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2), sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (4), and sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (5) thereof of the words " a female person " for the words " someone other than a relative " wherever the same occur.

4. The Schedule of the Principal Regulations, is hereby revoked and the following schedule shall be substituted therefor :—

SCHEDULE.

	Class of Person	Rates of Payments
Where person is ordinarily resident in County Borough			Where person is ordinarily resident elsewhere than in Country Borough
		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
1	For male person with dependent wife, or female person with dependent husband.	3	0	0	2	15	0
2	(a) For single person or a person who is a widow or widower.	1	8	0	1	5	0
	(b) For such person where he has one or more dependants and where with the approval of the health authority, it is necessary to employ a female person to take care of such dependant or dependants.	1	0	0	0	15	0
3	For such dependant (other than a wife or husband) :—
	(a) aged 16 years and over	0	12	0	0	10	0
	(b) aged 8 years and under 16	0	8	0	0	6	0
	(c) aged under 8 years	0	5	0	0	3	0
4	For a married woman whose husband is unable to make proper provision for the care of their family where, with the approval of the health authority, it is necessary to employ a female person to take care of such family.	1	0	0	0	15	0

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health, this twenty-seventh day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-nine.

(Signed) NOËL C. BROWNE,

Minister for Health.