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VACCINATION ORDINANCE, 1951 (CAP
76)
CHAPTER 76
(Gold Coast)
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short Title and Application.
2. Interpretation.
3. Public Vaccinators and
Assistant Public Vaccinators.
4. Vaccination to be Free.
5. Power of Minister to order
Compulsory Vaccination.
6. Regulations by Deputy Director
of Health Service.
7. Vaccination of Adults.
8. Vaccination of Children.
9. Power of Public Vaccinators to
Enter Houses, etc., and Vaccinate.
10. Power to Examine and Vaccinate
Strangers.
11. Employers of Foreign Labour to
Notify Arrival.
12. Certificate of Vaccination.
13. Fees.
14. Prohibition of the Practice of
Inoculation.
15. Regulations by Governor in
Council.
16. Date of Commencement of Order,
etc.
17. Penalties.
18. Savings in respect of
Certificates of Medical
Practitioners.
19. Savings of Orders made in
respect of Ashanti and Northern
Territories.
SCHEDULE
Scheudule
McCarthy Cap. 63. Ordinances Nos.
20 of 1919, 30 of 1935, 19 of
1936.
AN ORDINANCE to provide for
Vaccination
Date of Commencement. [1st
January, 1920.]
Section 1—Short Title and
Application.
This Ordinance may be cited as
"The Vaccination Ordinance," and
shall apply to the Gold Coast.
(30 of 1935, s.2.)
Section 2—Interpretation.
In this Ordinance, unless the
context otherwise requires—
Adult.
"Adult" means a person who is or
(in the case of a person whose age
is uncertain) appears to be,
fourteen years of age or over;
Child.
"Child" means a person who is or
(in the case of a person whose age
is uncertain) appears to be, under
fourteen years of age;
Minister.
"Minister" means the Minister
responsible for Health;
Parent.
"Parent" means the father or
mother of a child, and includes
any person having the care or
custody of a child;
Prescribed area.
"Prescribed area" means any
district, area, or place in
respect of which an order has been
made under section 5 and is in
force;
Successful vaccination.
"Successful vaccination" means
vaccination which is efficient to
protect against smallpox.
Section 3—Public Vaccinators and
Assistant Public Vaccinators.
(1) Medical Officers in the
Government service shall be public
vaccinators for the purpose of
this Ordinance.
(2) It shall be lawful for the
Minister to appoint to be public
vaccinators registered medical
practitioners not in the
Government service, and to be
assistant public vaccinators such
other persons as may be certified
by the Deputy Director of Health
Service, to have the necessary
probity, skill, and knowledge.
(3) Assistant public vaccinators
shall be charged with and shall
perform such of the duties of
public vaccinators only, and shall
have and may exercise such of the
powers of public vaccinators only
as shall by regulations under
section 6 from time to time be
assigned to them for the purpose
of carrying this Ordinance into
effect; and such assignment may be
made either generally with respect
to all assistant public
vaccinators or specifically with
respect to any one or more
individual assistant public
vaccinators. To the extent of and
for the purpose of the duties and
powers so assigned to them, and
save as in this Ordinance
otherwise expressly or by
necessary implication provided,
the term "public vaccinator" shall
in this Ordinance be deemed to
include an assistant public
vaccinator.
Section 4—Vaccination to be Free.
It shall be the duty of every
public vaccinator to vaccinate,
free of charge, such persons as
shall present themselves or be
presented for the purpose, or such
persons as, under the provisions
of this Ordinance, are, or become,
liable to be vaccinated, except in
cases where, in the opinion of any
such public vaccinator,
vaccination would be injurious to
health, or where there is
satisfactory evidence that any
such person is already
successfully vaccinated or has
suffered from small pox.
Section 5—Power of Minister to
order Compulsory Vaccination.
The Minister may order, either
generally or with reference to
particular districts, areas, or
places throughout the Gold Coast,
or with respect to any particular
class or classes of persons, that
all persons to whom such order
applies who do not produce
satisfactory evidence of
successful vaccination or of
having suffered from smallpox
shall be vaccinated by a public
vaccinator, unless in the opinion
of any such public vaccinator
vaccination would be injurious to
health. (Amended by 30 of 1935,
s.2.)
Such order may prescribe at what
age a person shall be liable to
any penalty for non-compliance
with the terms of the order, and
who shall be liable in cases where
the persons failing to be
vaccinated shall not have attained
such age.
An order under this section may be
made subject to any qualifications
and exceptions as to the Minister
may seem proper, and the
provisions of sections 7, 8, and 9
shall be read subject to any such
qualifications and exceptions, if
any.
Section 6—Regulations by Deputy
Director of Health Service.
The Deputy Director of Health
Service shall make regulations
with respect to—
Attendance of public.
(1) The times and places of
attendance of persons upon public
vaccinators for the purposes of
vaccination.
Evidence of results.
(2) The evidence to be accepted of
successful vaccination, including
inspection of the results of
vaccination.
Lymph.
(3) The supply of lymph to public
vaccinators.
Method.
(4) The method of vaccination by
public vaccinators.
Treatment.
(5) The treatment of persons after
vaccination.
Vaccinators' powers and duties.
(6) The duties and powers of
assistant public vaccinators and
the limitations and conditions
under which such duties shall be
performed and such powers shall be
exercised.
Regulations made under this
section shall be subject to the
approval of the Minister.
Section 7—Vaccination of Adults.
Every adult to whom an order made
under section 5 applies shall
attend for examination, and, if
necessary for vaccination, within
such period and at such a time
and place as may be appointed by
regulations made under section 6,
and shall subsequently attend at
such times and at such places as
the public vaccinator may direct
for the purpose of examination as
to whether or not the vaccination
has been successful, and, if
necessary, for re-vaccination.
Section 8—Vaccination of Children.
The parent of any child to whom an
order made under section 5 applies
shall, within three months after
the birth of such child, or if
such child is over the age of
three months at the date of the
order, within such period as may
be appointed under section 6,
bring such child to a public
vaccinator at a time and place
appointed under section 6 for
examination, and, if necessary,
for vaccination, and shall
subsequently produce such child at
such times and places as the
public vaccinator shall direct,
for the purpose of examination as
to whether or not the vaccination
has been successful, and, if
necessary, for re-vaccination.
Section 9—Power of Public
Vaccinators to Enter Houses, etc.,
and Vaccinate.
When an order has been made under
section 5 every public vaccinator
may on any day, except (save
during an epidemic of smallpox)
Sunday, between the hours of six
in the morning and six in the
evening, enter any house and any
yard or compound and any buildings
therein in any area prescribed by
such order, and inspect every
person found therein, and may
thereupon vaccinate any such
person unless he is satisfied that
such person is already
successfully vaccinated or has
suffered from smallpox, or unless
in his opinion vaccination would
be injurious to health.
Section 10—Power to Examine and
Vaccinate Strangers.
Any public vaccinator may examine
and vaccinate any person arriving
in the Gold Coast, by land or sea,
who cannot produce satisfactory
evidence of successful vaccination
or of having suffered from
smallpox. (Amended by 30 of 1935,
s.2.)
Section 11—Employers of Foreign
Labour to Notify Arrival.
Any employer (or, whenever such
employer is not an individual or
being an individual is not in the
Gold Coast, then the responsible
local representative of such
employer) of labourers immigrant
into the Gold Coast from other
countries shall before the
disembarkation (or, in case of
immigration overland, before the
entry) of such labourers, give to
the Medical Officer of Health for
the place of the disembarkation or
entry of such labourers notice of
the arrival of such labourers, for
the purpose of their inspection,
and, if necessary, vaccination.
(Amended by 30 of 1935, s.2.)
And it shall be the duty of such
employer, or of the responsible
local representative of such
employer, as the case may be, to
afford all reasonable facilities
to the public vaccinator for the
purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 12—Certificate of
Vaccination.
Every public vaccinator who has
vaccinated any adult or child, and
has ascertained that the
vaccination has been successful,
or is satisfied that such adult or
child is insusceptible of
successful vaccination, shall
issue a certificate in the Form A
or B respectively of the Schedule,
if at the time application is made
to him by such adult or the parent
of such child.
Section 13—Fees.
It shall be lawful for the
Minister to make regulations
dealing with the payment of fees,
if any, to public vaccinators, and
to fix the amount of such fees.
(Amended by 19 of 1936, s.19.)
Section 14—Prohibition of the
Practice of Inoculation.
The practice of inoculation is
hereby declared to be unlawful;
and any person in any wise
exercising or concerned in or
conniving at such practice, or
concerned in or conniving at the
performance of any operation of
inoculation, shall be guilty of an
offence, and on summary conviction
thereof shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding fifty pounds, or
imprisonment with or without hard
labour for any term not exceeding
six months.
Section 15—Regulations by Governor
in Council.
The Governor in Council may make
regulations generally for giving
effect to the purposes and
provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 16—Date of Commencement of
Order, etc.
All orders or regulations made
under this Ordinance shall come
into force on publication in the
Gazette, or on such date as may be
specified in such order or
regulation.
Section 17—Penalties.
Any person who shall fail to
comply with any of the provisions
of this Ordinance, or of any order
or regulation made thereunder, or
shall wilfully endeavour to
deceive by false statement or
otherwise, or shall obstruct any
public vaccinator in the discharge
of his duties under this
Ordinance, shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding five pounds, or to
imprisonment with or without hard
labour for any term not exceeding
one month, and, when the failure
continues after conviction, to a
fine not exceeding one pound for
each day on which such failure
continues:
Proviso.
Provided always that the penalty
for an offence under section 8
shall be a fine of not more than
one pound.
Section 18—Savings in respect of
Certificates of Medical
Practitioners.
Anything in this Ordinance
contained notwithstanding, no
public vaccinator shall inspect or
vaccinate any person in respect of
whom is produced to the public
vaccinator either—
Cap. 69.
(1) a certificate signed by a
medical practitioner who is
entitled to registration as such
under the Medical Practitioners
and Dentists Registration
Ordinance, certifying that the
person named therein has within
the next preceding seven years
been successfully vaccinated; or
(2) a certificate signed within
the next preceding four months by
some such medical practitioner as
aforesaid certifying that the
person named therein is medically
unfit to undergo vaccination.
Section 19—Savings of Orders made
in respect of Ashanti and Northern
Territories.
Cap. 110.
Cap. 111.
All orders made under section 5 as
applied to Ashanti by section 22*
of the Administration (Ashanti)
Ordinance and to the Northern
Territories by section 22+ of the
Administration (Northern
Territories) Ordinance and in
force on the 1st day of July,
1935, shall be deemed to have been
made and to be in force under this
Ordinance. (Added by 30 of 1935,
s.2.)
SCHEDULE
(Section 12)
FORM A.
CERTIFICATION OF SUCCESSFUL
VACCINATION.
Certificate of successful
Vaccination.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify
that ‡ a man,
woman, boy, girl, of the apparent
age of about years, a
resident of in
the was successfully
vaccinated by me at
, in the District, on
the day of , 19 .
(Signature)
Public Vaccinator.
FORM B.
CERTIFICATION OF UNSUCCESSFUL
VACCINATION.
Certificate of Unsuccessful
Vaccination.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify
that ‡ a man
, woman, boy, girl , of the
apparent age of about
years, a resident of in
the , has
been times
unsuccessfully vaccinated by me,
and that I am of opinion that such
‡ man, woman, boy, girl, is
insusceptible of successful
vaccination.
Dated this day
of ,
19 .
(Signature)
Public Vaccinator.
FOOTNOTES
‡
Strike out unnecessary words.
*Repealed by No.30 of 1935, s.4.
+Repealed by No.30 of 1935, s.5.
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