An Act to repeal "The Vaccination Act 1863" and to
make other provision in lieu thereof.
[14th November 1871]

Clauses
1. Short Title
   "The Vaccination Act 1871". It shall come into operation
   1 Mar 1872.   

2. Repeal clause
   "The Vaccination Act 1863" is hereby repealed.

3. Penalty on person inoculating with small-pox
   Any person who after the passing of this Act shall produce
   or attempt to produce in any 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 produce
   the disease of small-pox in any person shall be guilty of
   an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against
   summarily and upon conviction to pay a penalty not exceeding
   ten pounds or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding
   one month.

4. Colonial Secretary to procure sufficient supply of vaccine 
   lymph.

5. Public Vaccinator to be appointed.
   The Governor may from time to time appoint such and so many
   qualified persons to be Public Vaccinators under this Act
   and from time to time remove any person so appointed and
   appoint another qualified person in his place and every
   Public Vaccinator shall be paid out of moneys to be 
   appropriated for the purposes of this Act by the General
   Assembly such annual salary or fees as the Governor shall
   from time to time appoint.

6. Qualification of Public Vaccinators.
   Any person who shall be a legally qualified Medical
   Practitioner shall be qualified to be appointed a Public
   Vaccinator.  And the Governor may from time to time appoint
   for each province or other division of the Colony a Medical
   Practitioner to be a Certifying Officer for the purposes
   hereinafter mentioned and any person not being a legally
   qualified Medical Practitioner and whether he shall hold
   any degree or diploma in medicine or surgery or not whom
   any such Certifying Officer shall certify to be a competent
   and proper person to be appointed a Public Vaccinator shall
   be deemed qualified to be so appointed. And for such
   certificate there shall on the appointment of any person
   so certified to be a Public Vaccinator be paid to the
   Certifying Officer out of moneys to be appropriated for
   the purposes of this Act by the General Assembly such fee
   not exceeding three pounds as the Governor shall from time
   to time determine.

7. Places to be appointed at which vaccination is to be performed 
   by Public Vaccinator.
   The Governor may from time to time appoint such places for
   the performance of vaccination as he shall think fit and may
   take such means as he thinks fit for giving from time to time
   due notice to the public of the days and hours at which a
   Public Vaccinator will attend at such places to vaccinate all
   persons who may then appear and desire to be vaccinated or
   whom he may be required to vaccinate.

8. Public Vaccinator to attent at places fixed and vaccinated without 
   fee or reward.
   The Governor may from time to time fix the places at which each
   Public Vaccinator is to attend to perform vaccination and the
   days and hours at and during which he is to attend there and
   each Public Vaccinator shall attend at the place and time and
   during the hours so appointed and there vaccinate without fee or
   reward other than is provided by this Act all persons who shall
   attend there and who shall be willing to be vaccinated or whom
   being apparently under fourteen years of age he shall be required
   to vaccinate and every Public Vaccinator shall endeavour to
   ascertain whether the vaccinations performed by him have been
   successful.

9. Certificate of vaccination by Public Vaccinator.
   Every Public Vaccinator who shall have performed the operation
   of vaccination upon any child shall ascertain whether the
   operation has been successful or not and shall within twenty
   one days after the performance of the operation transmit by post
   or otherwise a certificate under his hand according to the form
   in the Schedule to this Act annexed or the like effect certifying
   that the said child has been vaccinated successfully or not as
   the case may be to the Registrar of Births in the district in
   which the birth was registered but if such district is not known
   to him or if the birth of the child shall not have been registered
   to the Registrar of the district within which the operation shall
   have been performed.

10. Certificate of vaccination by Medical Practitioner not appointed 
    under this Act.
    Where a vaccination shall be performed by a Medical Practitioner
    not being a Public Vaccinator appointed under this Act the parent
    or other person causing the child to be vaccinated shall submit a
    certificate according to the form in the Schedule to this Act to
    such Medical Practitioner to be filled up and signed by him and
    shall within twenty one days after the performance of the operation
    transmit the same so signed by post or otherwise to the Registrar
    of Births of the district where the birth of such child was
    registered or if the birth of such child shall not have been
    registered or the district of the registration shall not be known
    to such parent or other person to the Registrar of Births of the
    district in which the operation shall have been performed.

11. The Registrar of Births to register vaccination.
    The Registrar of Births in every district shall keep a book in
    which he shall register the certificates transmitted to him as
    herein provided.

12. Governor to make known advantage of vaccination.

13. Registrar of Births to send list of unvaccinated children to 
    Public Vaccinator.
    Every Registrar of Births shall on the first day of January and
    the first day of July in each year send to the Public Vaccinator
    or Vaccinators residing in his district a list of all children
    whose births are registered by such Registrar and who do not
    appear by the register kept under this Act to have been vaccinated.

14. Children attending a public school to be vaccinated.
    If the teacher of any school which is supported wholly in or part
    by grant or from rates or any public funds or by any endowments
    whether Colonial Provincial or Parochial shall have reason to
    believe that any child attending such school has not been vaccinated
    he shall give notice to the nearest Public Vaccinator and such
    Vaccinator shall examine the child and if upon examination he shall
    be of opinion that such child has not been successfully vaccinated
    he shall thereupon vaccinate such child  Provided that in the case
    of persons above the age of sixteen the examination shall be
    conducted by a legally qualified medical practitioner and the person
    if necessary be vaccinated by him.

Schedule:
I the undersigned hereby certify that [...] aged [...]
the child of [...] of [...] in the [...] of [...] has
been vaccinated successfully (or not as the case may be) by
me [...] Dated this [...] day of [...] 18[..]
Signed by [...] Public Vaccinator of [...] District or
Signed by [...] Medical Practitioner (i.e. M.D. L.A.C. or
F.C.R.S. or otherwise as the case may be.