Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ACT 1911 - SECT 33

33 .         Medical officer may direct and exercise powers of environmental health officer

                Every medical officer of health —

        (1)         may give to any environmental health officer such directions and instructions as he may deem necessary from time to time, for the due execution of this Act, and such environmental health officers shall obey and carry out directions or instructions so given; and

        (2)         shall have and may exercise, in addition to the powers conferred on him by or under this Act, all the powers of an environmental health officer.

        [Section 33 amended by No. 24 of 1970 s. 12; No. 59 of 1991 s. 5; No. 28 of 1996 s. 21.]