Vaccination Act 1854 (SA)

No. 15.

An Act to amend An Act to extend and wake compulsory the practice

of Vaccination."

[Assented to, December 15, 1854.1

HEREAS it is expedient to amend an Act, No. 16 of 1853, p,,,,~~,.

tion"-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor of the W To extend and make compulsory the practice of Vaccina- N, 16 ,f leas.

Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. There shall be paid. to every legally qualified medical practi- P ~ y n w n t to legally

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register which hc shall transmit, in pursuance of the said Act, thc return. sum of One Guinea; and such sum shall be payable by the Colonial Treasurer, upon the certificate of the Chairman of the Central Vaccine Board that mch register has been duly transmitted.

2. No child shall be deemed to have been vaccinated, according to Proof ufvRccination.

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the provisions of the said Act, unless the name of such child shall have been returned to the said Central Vaccine Board, in some register, as having been sufficiently vaccinated, or unless the legally qualified medical practitioner having vaccinated such child, or a District Vaccinator, shall certify under his hand that such child has been sufficiently vaccinated; and every legally qualified medical prac- titioner, or District Vaccinator, giving a wilfully false certificate, ss

last aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five Pounds; and in any proceeding against the parent or other person, having the l a d u l

charge of any child, the proof that such return has been made, or certificate has been given, shall lie upon such parent ar other person,

3. This Act and the said Act shall be read as one Act. This A& and NO. 16 of 1863 to be read m

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Adelaide: Printed by authority by W, C, Cox, Gnurrament I'rintor, Victoria-square,