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Exemption.
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'Vaccination
of inmates
of reforma- tories, prisons, schools, etc.
No. 12 of 1923.
VACCINATION,
or inability to pay such charges shall be liable to have his effects seized, detained and sold to defray such charges. Such person shall further, if he escapes or attempts to escape from such station or from the custody of any person removing him to such station, be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and may be arrested by any person removing him to such station or by any officer or servant of such station or by any police officer and may be conveyed to and detained in such station.
19. Where any person who may be required to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated under the provisions of section 16 (1) or 17 (1) is in the opinion of a Health Officer or the Port Health Officer, as the case may be, not in a fit or proper state to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated or has already suffered from smallpox or has already been successfully vaccinated or re-vaccinated within three years immediately preceding, no further vaccination or re-vaccination shall be compulsory.
Vaccination of inmates of reformatories, prisons, etc.
20.-(1) As soon as practicable after any person is received as an inmate of any reformatory, refuge, industrial school, charitable institution, lunatic asylum or prison, the master or other person in charge of such establishment or the keeper of such prison shall at the expense of such establishment or prison cause such inmate to be successfully vaccinated by a registered medical practitioner or by a public vaccinator.
(2) Vaccination under this section shall not be compulsory-
(a) in the case of an inmate who produces satisfactory evidence that he has been successfully vaccinated within three years immediately preceding or that he is not susceptible of successful vaccination; nor
(b) in the case of an inmate who in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner cannot be submitted to the operation without danger to the inmate; nor
(c) in the case of an inmate of a lunatic asylum, where the medical officer of the institution is of opinion that for any reason the operation would be inexpedient; nor
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
1610
Exemption.
+
'Vaccination
of inmates
of reforma- tories, prisons, schools, etc.
No. 12 of 1923.
VACCINATION,
or inability to pay such charges shall be liable to have his effects seized, detained and sold to defray such charges. Such person shall further, if he escapes or attempts to escape from such station or from the custody of any person removing him to such station, be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and may be arrested by any person removing him to such station or by any officer or servant of such station or by any police officer and may be conveyed to and detained in such station.
19. Where any person who may be required to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated under the provisions of section 16 (1) or 17 (1) is in the opinion of a Health Officer or the Port Health Officer, as the case may be, not in a fit or proper state to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated or has already suffered from smallpox or has already been successfully vaccinated or re-vaccinated within three years immediately preceding, no further vaccination or re-vaccination shall be compulsory.
Vaccination of inmates of reformatories, prisons, etc.
20.-(1) As soon as practicable after any person is received as an inmate of any reformatory, refuge, industrial school, charitable institution, lunatic asylum or prison, the master or other person in charge of such establishment or the keeper of such prison shall at the expense of such establishment or prison cause such inmate to be successfully vaccinated by a registered medical practitioner or by a public vaccinator.
(2) Vaccination under this section shall not be compulsory- (a) in the case of an inmate who produces satisfactory evidence that he has been successfully vaccinated within three years immediately preceding or that he is not susceptible of successful vaccination; nor
(b) in the case of an inmate who in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner cannot be submitted to the operation without danger to the inmate; nor
(c) in the case of an inmate of a lunatic asylum, where the medical officer of the institution is of opinion that for any reason the operation would be inexpedient; nor
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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