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No. 12 of 1923.

Vaccinations

to be per- formed by certain

persons only.

Inoculation.

Regulations.

First Schedule.

Second Schedule.

VACCINATION.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor at any time to cancel or revoke any appointment or authorisation made or given under sub-sections (1) or (2).

4. No person shall perform the operation of vaccination upon any other person, unless he is either-

(a) a registered medical practitioner, or

(b) a public vaccinator, or

(c) a person authorised by the Governor under section 3 (2) to perform vaccinations in any time of emergency.

5. Every person who produces or attempts to produce in himself or in any other person by inoculation with variolous matter or by wilful exposure to variolous matter or to any matter, article or thing impregnated with variolous matter, or wilfully, by any other means whatsoever, produces or attempts to produce, the disease of small-pox in himself or in any other person, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

6.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations in respect of the following matters:-

(a) the duties and powers of all officers appointed under this Ordinance;

(b) the fee, if any, to be paid for vaccination by a public vaccinator, the method of payment thereof, and the time and place of vaccination;

(c) the forms of certificates to be given under this Ordi- nance; and

(d) all such other matters not herein before specifically mentioned as may conduce to the better carrying out of this Ordinance.

(2) The regulations in the First Schedule shall be in force until altered or amended by regulations made under this Ordinance.

(3) The forms in the Second Schedule shall be in force until altered or amended by regulations made under this Ordinance.