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The UK Vaccination Acts of 1840, 1853, 1867 and 1898 were a series of legislative Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom regarding the vaccination policy of the country.
| Vaccination Act 1840 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to extend the Practice of Vaccination. |
| Citation | 3 & 4 Vict. c. 29 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 23 July 1840 |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Vaccination Act 1840:
In general, the disadvantages of variolation are the same as those of vaccination, but added to them is the general agreement that variolation was always more dangerous than vaccination.
| Vaccination Act 1853 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Citation | 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 20 August 1853 |
By the Vaccination Act 1853 it was required: [2]
| Vaccination Act 1867 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Citation | 30 & 31 Vict. c. 84 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 12 August 1867 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amended by | Vaccination Act 1871 |
| Repealed by | National Health Service Act 1946 |
Status: Repealed | |
The Vaccination Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 84) consolidated and updated the existing laws relating to vaccination, and was repealed by the National Health Service Act 1946. [3]
The poor-law guardians were to control vaccination districts formed out of the parishes, and pay vaccinators from 1s to 3s per child vaccinated in the district (the amount paid varied with how far they had to travel).
Within seven days of the birth of a child being registered, the registrar was to deliver a notice of vaccination; if the child was not presented to be vaccinated within three months, or brought for inspection afterwards, the parents or guardians were liable to a summary conviction and fine of 20s.
The Act also provided that any person who produced or attempted to inoculate another with smallpox could be imprisoned for a month.
| Vaccination Act 1871 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to amend the Vaccination Act, 1867. |
| Citation | 34 & 35 Vict. c. 98 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 21 August 1871 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amends | Vaccination Act 1867 |
| Repealed by | National Health Service Act 1946 |
Status: Repealed | |
In 1871 another act, the Vaccination Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 98) was passed appointing a Vaccination Officer, also authorising a defendant to appear in a court of law by any member of his family, or any other person authorised by him. This act also confirmed the principle of compulsion, which evidently sparked hostility and opposition to the practice. [4]
| Vaccination Act 1874 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to explain the Vaccination Act, 1871. |
| Citation | 37 & 38 Vict. c. 75 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 7 August 1874 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | National Health Service Act 1946 |
| Relates to | Vaccination Act 1871 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Vaccination Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 75) clarified the role of the Local Government Board in making regulations for guardians to implement the 1871 act.
- An Act to explain the Vaccination Act, 1871.
[7th August 1874.]
- Whereas by section five of the Vaccination Act, 1871, it is enacted, amongst other things, that, subject to the provisions of that Act, the Local Government Board shall have the same powers with respect to guardians and vaccination officers in matters relating to vaccination as they have with respect to guardians and officers of guardians in matters relating to the relief of the poor, and may make rules, orders, and regulations accordingly:
- And whereas doubts are entertained whether the Local Government Board are empowered under the said Act to make rules, orders, and regulations with respect to the proceedings to be taken by the guardians or their officers for the enforcement of the provisions of the Vaccination Acts, 1867 and 1871:
- 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:
- The powers conferred by the said recited section shall be deemed to extend to and include the making of rules, orders, and regulations prescribing the duties of guardians and their officers in relation to the institution and conduct of the proceedings to be taken for enforcing the provisions of the said Acts, and the payment of the costs and expenses relating thereto, and rules, orders, and regulations under this Act shall be deemed to be made under the said section.
- This Act may be cited as The Vaccination Act, 1874.
A royal commission was established in 1889, which issued six reports between 1892 and 1896. Its recommendations, including the abolition of cumulative penalties and the use of safer vaccine, were incorporated into the Vaccination Act 1898. [5]
| Vaccination Act 1898 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to Amend the Law with respect to Vaccination. |
| Citation | 61 & 62 Vict. c. 49 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 12 August 1898 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | National Health Service Act 1946 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Vaccination Act 1907 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to substitute a Statutory Declaration for the Certificate required under section two of the Vaccination Act, 1898, of Conscientious Objection. |
| Citation | 7 Edw. 7. c. 31 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 28 August 1907 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | National Health Service Act 1946 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Vaccination (Scotland) Act 1907 | |
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to amend the Law with respect to Vaccination in Scotland by authorising a statutory declaration of conscientious objection. |
| Citation | 7 Edw. 7. c. 49 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 28 August 1907 |
In 1898 a new vaccination law was passed, in some respects modifying, but not superseding, previous acts, giving conditional exemption of conscientious objectors, (and substituting calf lymph for humanised lymph). It removed cumulative penalties and introduced a conscience clause, allowing parents who did not believe vaccination was efficacious or safe to obtain a certificate of exemption.
The Vaccination Act 1898 purported to give liberty of non-vaccination, but this liberty was not really obtained. Parents applying for a certificate of exemption had to satisfy two magistrates, or one stipendiary, of their conscientious objections. Some stipendiaries, and many of the magistrates, refused to be satisfied, and imposed delays. Unless the exemption was obtained before the child was four months old, it was too late. The consequence was that in the year 1906, only about 40,000 exemptions were obtained in England and Wales. In the year 1907 the Government recognised that the magistrates had practically declined to carry out the law of 1898, and, consequently, a new law, the Vaccination Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7. c. 31), was passed. Under this law the parent escaped penalties for the non-vaccination of his child if within four months from the birth he made a statutory declaration that he confidently believed that vaccination would be prejudicial to the health of the child, and within seven days thereafter delivered, or sent by post, the declaration to the Vaccination Officer of the district.
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