Section 0

`1903.1` I;ep * ers . . `169` < ACT No. XIII OF 1903. `PASSED` BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNUIL. (Received tAe assent of the Govevnov Gelteral olt the 18th September, 1903.) An Act further to amend the Lepers Act, 1898. a WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Lepers Act, 1898, by providing for the segregation and medical treatment in British India of lepers belonging to Native States; It is hereby enaoted as follows : 1. This Act may be called the Lepers (Amend- Shorttitle. rnent) Act, 1903. 2. After section 18 of the Lepers Act, 1898, the Addition of `new` seotion following seotion shall be added, namely : after seotion seotion `new` seotion after seotion seotion 18, A0t `111,` 1898. " 19. The Governor General in Council may, by Lepers from Native notifioation in the Gazette of India, direct that any 8tatea, leper or class of lepers, with respect to whom an order for segregation and medical treatment has been made by a Magistrate having jurisdiction within the territories of any Native Prince or State in India, may be sent to any leper-asylum specified in such order ; and thereupon the provisions of this Act and of any rules made thereunder shall, with such modifications not affecting the substance as may he reasonable and necessary to adapt them to the subjeotmatter, apply to any leper sent to a leper-asylum in pursuance of such notification as though he had been sent by the order of a Magistrate having jurisdiction under this Act."