to institute and conduct proceedings for the purpose of enforcing obedience to the said Acts, or any of them, within their union or parish; and as to all expenses incurred by any person so appointed, or by any registrar of births and deaths, or by any medical officer of health appointed under an Act of Parliament, in proceedings for enforcing penalties under the said Acts, or any of them, if the justices or court before whom such proceedings are had certify that such expenses ought to be allowed, such court or justices shall ascertain the amount thereof,' and such amount shall be payable out of the rates for the relief of the poor of the parish where the person for the time being dwells in respect of whose default or offence the same were instituted;' and the court or justices shall ascertain the amount of such expenses. And proceedings for enforcing penalties under any of the said Acts, on account of neglect to have a child vaccinated, may be taken at any time during which the parent or guardian is in default.3

It will be seen that there is a repetition here. 2 It will be observed that the costs were to be charged to the parish of the offender's residence, and not to the common fund of the union, where the parish was within a union.

• See Pilcher v. Stafford, 33 L. J. (N.s.), M. C. 113; 9 L. T. (N.s.), 759; and ante, p. 114.

28 & 29 VICT. C. 79.

4 & 5 W, iv.

An Act to provide for the better Distribution

of the Charge for the Relief of the Poor in Unions.

[29th June, 1865. Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the better distribution of the charge for the relief of the poor in unions than is by law now established : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

I. From and after the twenty-fifth day of March one so much of thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, so much of the sect. 26 of twenty-sixth section of the fourth and fifth William the C.76, as Fourth, chapter seventy-six, as requires that each of the requires parishes in a union formed under the authority of that parishes in Act shall be separately chargeable with and liable to defray exdefray the expense of its own poor, whether relieved in penses of or out of the workhouse of such union, shall be repealed ; poor reand all the cost of the relief of the poor, and the ex- pealed; and penses of the burial of the dead body of any poor person thenceforth under the direction of the guardians, or any of their incurred to officers duly authorised, in such union thenceforth in- be charged curred, and all charges thenceforth incurred by the guar- mon fund. dians of such union in respect of vaccination and registration' fees and expenses, shall be charged upon the common fund thereof.

XVI. The words herein used shall be interpreted in Interpretathe manner prescribed by the statute of the fourth and tion of terms fifth years of William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, and the subsequent Acts amending or explaining the same,

their own

to

i See 4 & 5 Vict. c. 32, and the notes thereon, ante, pp. 105, 106; see also 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100, s. 10, and the notes thereon, ante, pp. 114-117. And see further, 30 & 31 Vict. C. 84, s. 26, ante, p. 40.

and the provisions in such Acts which apply to poor persons rendered chargeable upon the common fund by reason of their having become irreinovable through the operation of the statutes in that behalf shall apply to all the poor in the union hereby rendered chargeable upon the common fund.

XVII. This Act may be cited as “The Union Chargeability Act, 1865."

Short title.

129

INDEX

Page

.

Accounts-

payments under contracts not approved to be disallowed, 32
Adults, vaccination of

30, 108
Age of persons with reference to vaccination or revaccination,

86, 87, 108
Affixing notice of times and places for vaccination

98
Allowances to public vaccinators by Privy Council

28, 69
Alms, vaccination not to be considered to be

40, 106
Application of penalties

41, 42, 44, 119
Appointment of officer to conduct prosecutions 41, 72, 74, 75
of medical officer of Privy Council

122, 123
of person to conduct prosecutions

6, 125, 126
Alterations of districts

26, 33, 68, 71, 75
notice to be given

26, 33, 71
in local arrangements

33, 71, 75
notice to be given

33, 71
Annual reports of medical officer of Privy Council 6, 11, 123
Annulling of contracts by Poor Law Commissioners

101
Area of districts

26, 76
Arm to arm vaccination

91, 96-98
Attendance at stations

78, 79, 81
weekly

75, 76, 86, 96-98
quarterly

97

97
other periods

76, 97
when population is scanty

32, 71, 76, 97
when there is only one station in district

97, 98
when there is more than one station

97
notice to be given for

63, 108, 113
form of notice

56, 58, 81
Auditor-

to disallow payments under contracts not approved 32
appeal against his decision

32

half-yearly

.

Birth
delivery of notice on registration of

33, 34, 47, 51, 54, 55, 57, 62, 63, 71, 98, 113
period after when vaccination is to be procured,

34, 47, 55, 57, 109
Book to be kept by public vaccinator-

see Vaccinator's Register.

Page
Books to be provided by Registrar General, 5, 33, 71, 73, 118, 121
Books to be kept by registrar-

see Minute Book-Register of Successful Vaccinations.
Borough, penalties to be paid over to

42
Bruce, Mr., introduction of bill by

11

.

.

.

Carriages for conveyance of sick and diseased persons

104
charging expenses

104
Cases cited
Anonymous

. 100
Attorney General v. Corporation of Worcester

105
Baker v. Billericay Union

118
Pilcher v. Stafford

41, 43 114, 115, 126
Reg. v. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 40
Reg. v. Justices of Cambridgeshire

105
R. v. Burnett

. 103
R. v. Davis

40
R. v. Sutton

103
R. v. Vantandillo

103
R. v. Wilmer and Nicholls

103
Certificate (special) of proficiency in vaccination-
where granted

94
to be produced by' medical practitioners in entering into
contracts

88
when it may be dispensed with

88, 89
Certificate of successful vaccination

36, 37, 49, 61, 119
transmission of, to registrar, 34, 51, 70, 71, 72, 115, 116, 117
by public vaccinator

30, 34, 37, 42, 49, 51, 61, 71
by parent or person having care of child,

34, 38, 42, 47, 49, 52, 55, 57, 61, 71
penalty for neglect

42, 51, 52, 54, 73
no fee to be charged for :

37, 71
to be registered

38
when not received by registrar, proceedings to be taken, 40, 52
penalty for refusing to fill up and sign

39, 42
to be a defence in prosecutions

45
to be given to father, mother, or person having care of
child

63, 109, 110, 111
admissible as evidence

110
Certificate of unfitness of child for successful vaccination,

33, 35, 36, 47, 48, 59, 110, 119
renewal of

36, 47, 48, 111
to be a defence against complaint

111
Certificate of insusceptibility of successful vaccination,

33, 48, 60, 112, 120
when to be given

33, 36, 37, 112
to be a defence against complaint

112
Certificates, false, persons signing guilty of misdemeanor,

42, 73
see also Duplicate Certificate.
Charitable allowance, vaccination not to be considered to be, 40, 106