THE VACCINATION LAW.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 975, 16 November 1910, Page 5

THE VACCINATION LAW.

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. Tile Public Health Bill, which was circulated yesterday, provides that tlio Governor mav from time to time declare any defined part of New Zealand to be a vaccination area, in which tho clauses of . the principal Act relating to vaccination shall have effect and no certificate of exemption may be granted on_ account of a'parent's conscientious objection to vaccination. Every. Order-in-Council so issued shall have cffect within tho vaccination area until revoked by a, subsequent Order-in-Council. Except _ within a vaccination area no proceedings shall be instituted for recovery of a penalty for failure to cause a child, to be vacillated or neglect on the part of a doctor to deliver certificate. By-laws made under the Public Health Act, 190S, may prescribe the minimum frontage and area of land on which a dwcllinghouso may be erected in :tho district or any specified part thereof: Provided'that such area shall not be less than one-fifth of an acre in any 'district or specified 1 part in which a sewerage system does not exist, lirdistricts in which 110 sewerage-works exist, tho local' authority, I in lieu nraising a separate rate, may levy an annual fee on the occupier of every property 011 which a dwellinghouse is erected in the district, or any defined part thereof.