Orders of the Day — Ministry of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill – in the House of Commons at on 8 December 1920.
Dr Christopher Addison
, Shoreditch
I beg to move at the beginning of the Clause to insert
(1) The persons now known as inspectors of nuisances shall as from the commencement of this Act be called sanitary inspectors and any references in any enactment order. regulation or other document to an inspector of nuisances shall be construed accordingly.
(2)
This Amendment refers to an undertaking which I have given and it makes clear the title of the new sanitary inspectors set out in Clause 13. There is really no substantial alteration.
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