(1)

An international certificate issued for a person who travels to Australia or the Cocos Islands from a yellow fever proclaimed place must comply with subregulations (2), (3) and (4).

(2)

The certificate must state the date or dates, within the relevant period, on which the person was vaccinated or revaccinated against yellow fever.

(3)

For subregulation (2), the relevant period means the period from 10 years before the day the person arrives in Australia or the Cocos Islands to 10 days before that day.

(4)

For each date when the person is certified as vaccinated or revaccinated against yellow fever, the certificate must:

(a)

be signed personally:

(i)

for certificates signed in Australia or the Cocos Islands, by a medical practitioner who is approved by a State or Territory public health authority to sign international certificates; or

(ii)

if subparagraph (i) does not apply, by a person who is authorised by the national health administration of the country where the certificate is signed; and

(b)

state the office or professional status of the person who signed the certificate; and

(c)

display the official stamp of a vaccinating centre approved by a national health administration for vaccinating persons against yellow fever in the country where the person was vaccinated or revaccinated; and

(d)

show that the vaccine with which the person was vaccinated or revaccinated was manufactured by an authority approved by the World Health Organization for manufacturing vaccine for the vaccination of persons against yellow fever.

Note
For the meaning of health administration , see regulation 4.