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(3.) If a child is not vaccinated within nine months after its
birth, the public vaccinator of the district shall visit the home of
the child, and shall offer to vaccinate the child with glycerinated
calf lymph.
2. An order under section thirty-one of the Vaccination Act
of 1867, directing that a child be vaccinated, shall not be made
on any person who has previously been convicted of noncompliance
with a similar order relating to the same child.
3. The Local Government Board shall have the same powers
of making rules and regulations with respect to public vaccinators
(whether under contracts made before or after the passing of this
Act) as they have with respect to vaccination officers, and any
rules and regulations made by the Board with respect to
vaccination, whether under this or any other Act, shall, while in
force, have effect as if enacted by this Act.
4. The enactments mentioned in the schedule to this Act are
hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of
that schedule.
5.—(1.) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of
January, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
(3). This Act may be cited as the Vaccination Act, 1898, and
the Vaccination Act of 1867, the Vaccination Act, 1871, the
Vaccination Act, 1874, and this Act shall be construed together
as one Act, and may be citied collectively as the Vaccination
Acts of 1867 to 1898.