Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations(1) The person in charge of a pre-secondary school must make a record of the immunisation status of each child enrolled at the school in a form that is readily accessible to the person in charge and the chief health officer.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), an immunisation record signed by any of the following people is evidence that a specified child is immunised against the vaccine preventable disease to which the signature relates:
(a) a doctor;
(b) a nurse;
(c) an enrolled nurse;
(d) a midwife;
(e) a person authorised in writing by the chief health officer for the purpose.
(3) The person in charge of a pre-secondary school must—
(a) keep a copy of a child's immunisation record while the child is enrolled at the school; and
(b) give a copy of the immunisation record to the chief health officer within a reasonable time after enrolment.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(4) It is a defence to a prosecution under this section for failure to do a thing that the defendant had a reasonable excuse for that failure.