Victorian Numbered Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 (NO. 46 OF 2008) - SECT 148

    (1)     A person authorised to do so by a Council may issue an immunisation status certificate to a parent of a child if—

        (a)     the parent produces for each vaccine-preventable disease evidence of the kind required by section 147(2); and

        (b)     the child—

              (i)     resides in the municipal district of the Council; or

              (ii)     attends or proposes to attend a primary school located in the municipal district of the Council.

    (2)     A person who is—

        (a)     a recognised immunisation provider within the meaning of section 46A of the Health Insurance Act 1973 of the Commonwealth; or

        (b)     prescribed to be a prescribed person for the purposes of section 147 —

may issue an immunisation status certificate to a parent of a child if the parent produces for each vaccine-preventable disease evidence of the kind required by section 147(2).