An Act to substitute a Statutory Declaration for the Certificate required under section two of the Vaccination Act, 1898, of Conscientious Objection.
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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Substitution of statutory declaration as to conscientious objection for certificate of justices.1 Substitution of statutory declaration as to conscientious objection for certificate of justices.
1. The Vaccination Act, 1898, shall be read as if the following section were substituted for section two of that Act:—
(1) No parent or other person shall be liable to any penalty, under section twenty-nine or section thirty-one of the Vaccination Act of 1867 , if within four months from the birth of the child he makes a statutory declaration that he conscientiously believes that vaccination would be prejudicial to the health of the child, and within seven days thereafter delivers or sends by post the declaration to the vaccination officer of the district.
(2) A statutory declaration made for the purposes of this section shall be exempt from stamp duty.
(3) A statutory declaration for the purposes of this section shall be made in the form set out in the schedule to this Act, or in a form to the like effect.
2 Repeal.
2. Section two of the Vaccination Act, 1898, is hereby repealed, but the repeal shall not affect the operation of any certificate obtained before the commencement of this Act.
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Commencement and short title.3 Commencement and short title.
(1) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and eight.
(2) This Act may be cited as the Vaccination Act, 1907 , and may be cited with the Vaccination Acts, 1867 to 1898.
S C H E D U L E.
Form of Declaration.
I,A.B. , of in the parish of in the county of being the parent [or person having the custody] of a child named C.D. , who was born on the day of 19 , do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that I conscientiously believe that vaccination would be prejudicial to the health of the child, and I made this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.
Dated this day of 19 .
Signed,A.B.
Declared before me, at on the day of
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