§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
LORD BALFOURThis Bill is to remove doubts as to the power of the Local Government Board with regard to regulations which they are empowered to make under the Public Health Act, and which have been in force for some 16 or 17 years. It is not the intention of the Local Government Board to make any alterations in the regulations which are now in force, but doubts have arisen as to the completeness of the power of 577 the Board to make the regulations for the detention of persons suffering from cholera. It is obviously a matter of the greatest possible importance that any doubts upon a matter of this kind should be removed, and, therefore, as a precautionary measure this Bill has been introduced. It has passed through the other House of Parliament without Amendment, and I am not aware that any controversy is likely to arise upon it. I now ask your Lordships to give it a Second Reading.
§ Bill read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow.