Cap. 36 Art. 64Immunisation by order of court

On information in writing from the Superintendent or any medical officer acting on his behalf that he has reason to believe that a child has not completed the basic course of immunisation or such other booster doses as the Superintendent may deem necessary to safeguard the health of the child or of the community, and that he has given notice to the parent or other person having the custody of the child to procure the child’s immunisation in accordance with the provisions of this Part of the Ordinance, the Commissioner of Police shall summon such parent or other person to appear before the Court of Magistrates, and if the court finds after such enquiry as it shall deem necessary to make, that the child has not been immunised in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, the court may make an order directing the proper immunisation of such child in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance within such time as the said court may prescribe; and if, at the expiration of such time the child shall not have been properly immunised in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, or shall not have been shown to be unfit to be so immunised, the person against whom such order shall have been made shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance: Provided that in any prosecution for neglect to procure the immunisation of a child, it shall not be necessary in support thereof to prove that the person charged had received the notice referred to in article 62.