Western Australian Current Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 141D

141D .         Immunisation or exemption a condition of enrolment

        (1)         Unless a child meets a requirement of subsection (2), the person in charge of a school, community kindergarten or child care service must not permit the child to enrol in —

            (a)         the school, before the child’s compulsory education period; or

            (b)         the community kindergarten; or

            (c)         the child care service.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $10 000.

        (2)         A child meets a requirement of this subsection if —

            (a)         the immunisation certificate for the child states that the child’s immunisation status is up-to-date; or

            (b)         the immunisation certificate for the child states that the Chief Health Officer is satisfied that, but for a circumstance mentioned in section 141C(1)(a), the child’s immunisation status would be up-to-date; or

            (c)         the immunisation certificate for the child is a document, or a document belonging to a class of documents, declared to be an immunisation certificate under section 141C(4); or

            (d)         the child is following a catch-up schedule prescribed by the regulations; or

            (e)         the person in charge is satisfied that the child is an exempt child.

        [Section 141D inserted: No. 14 of 2019 s. 8.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 14 of 2019 s. 8.]