Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Repeal and re-enactment of sections 3 and 4

Sections 3 and 4 of the principal Act are hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: —“Administration of this Act3.—

(1)

The Commissioner shall be responsible for the administration of this Act, subject to the general or special directions of the Minister.(2) A Senior Health Officer shall have and may exercise all the powers conferred on the Commissioner and on a Medical Officer of Health by or under this Act.(3) The Minister may, in his discretion, by writing under his hand, vest any medical practitioner in the service of the Government with all or any of the powers conferred on a Medical Officer of Health by or under this Act.Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of Public Health to have the powers of Commissioner

4. A Deputy Commissioner of Public Health and an Assistant Commissioner of Public Health shall have and may exercise all the powers conferred on the Commissioner by or under this Act, subject to such limitations as the Commissioner may deem fit to impose.”.

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