These regulations may be cited as the Tuberculosis Regulations 1951.

These regulations shall come into force on the seventh day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

Expressions defined in the Act have the meanings so defined.

For the purposes of these regulations and of the classification in any notice or report thereunder of the case of any person suffering or having suffered from tuberculosis,—

Every notice required to be given by a medical practitioner to the medical officer of health under section 3 of the Act shall be in the appropriate form.

In respect of every notice received by the medical officer of health in accordance with section 3 of the Act there shall be paid to the medical practitioner giving the notice a fee of 5s:

provided that no fee shall be payable to any medical practitioner employed by the Government in respect of any notice relating to a case of tuberculosis of which he becomes aware in the course of his official duty.

The medical and other examinations that a medical officer of health may require persons to undergo pursuant to section 9 of the Act may be all or any of the following, namely:

No person shall perform vaccination against tuberculosis unless he is for the time being approved by the Director-General of Health as a person qualified to perform vaccination against tuberculosis under these regulations.

Every such approval shall be in writing under the hand of the Director-General, and notice thereof shall be sent to the person to whom it relates. The Director-General may at any time in like manner revoke any such approval.

The Director-General may in his discretion refuse to approve any person applying for approval under this regulation.

Notice of every approval under this regulation, and of every revocation of an approval thereunder, shall be published in the Gazette.

No person who is suffering from active tuberculosis shall perform vaccination against tuberculosis or have contact in any way with any vaccine used for such vaccination.

No person shall vaccinate any other person, not being a child, against tuberculosis unless the person to be vaccinated voluntarily submits himself for vaccination and consents thereto in the appropriate form.

No person shall vaccinate any child against tuberculosis unless a parent or guardian of the child voluntarily submits the child for vaccination and consents thereto in the appropriate form.

No person shall vaccinate any other person against tuberculosis unless—

No person shall vaccinate any other person against tuberculosis except in a manner for the time being prescribed or approved by the Director-General in accordance with regulation 13.

Where any person is vaccinated against tuberculosis, the vaccinator shall thereafter subject that person or cause him to be subjected to such tuberculin test or tests, if any, as may for the time being be prescribed or approved in that behalf in accordance with regulation 13.

All such tests as aforesaid shall be administered in such numbers, at such times, and in such manner as may for the time being be so prescribed or approved.

The vaccinator shall keep or cause to be kept a record of every vaccination and of all tuberculin tests administered under regulations 9(a) and 11.

The record shall be kept in a form for the time being prescribed or approved in that behalf in accordance with regulation 13.

The Director-General may from time to time in his discretion, by writing under his hand, prescribe—

and may from time to time in like manner vary or revoke any such prescription as aforesaid.

Notice of every such prescription, and of every variation or revocation of any such prescription, shall be sent to every vaccinator for the time being approved under regulation 6.

In any prescription under this regulation different provisions may be made in respect of different cases or in respect of cases of different classes, or in respect of cases or classes of cases in different circumstances.

The Director-General may from time to time in his discretion, on the application of any such approved vaccinator as aforesaid, by writing under his hand, approve any modification or variation in any such prescription as aforesaid in respect of tuberculin tests or X-ray examinations or vaccinations to be performed or conditions or requirements to be complied with, or records to be kept, by that vaccinator; and may from time to time in like manner revoke or vary any such approval. Any such approval may be given either unconditionally or subject to such modifications and conditions as the Director-General thinks fit. Notice of every such approval, and of any variation or revocation thereof, shall be sent to the vaccinator.

Every person who, without lawful excuse, acts in contravention of or fails to comply in any respect with any provision of regulations 6 to 12 commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £20 and, if the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding £2 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

An appeal under section 17 of the Act against any order or decision of a District Court Judge made or given under section 16 of the Act shall be brought by notice of motion lodged with the Registrar of the High Court whose office is nearest by the most convenient route to the District Court where the order or decision appealed against was made or given.

The notice of motion shall state the grounds of the appeal.

The notice of motion shall be so lodged within 7 days after the making of the order or the giving of the decision or, as the case may require, within such further time as the District Court Judge may allow pursuant to section 17 of the Act.

If further time is allowed under section 17 of the Act, there shall be lodged with the notice of motion a certificate under the hand of the District Court Judge specifying the time so allowed.

Either before or immediately after the notice of motion is so lodged, a copy thereof shall be served on the medical officer of health, and a copy shall be left with or sent to the Registrar of the District Court referred to in subclause (1).

Where any question of fact is involved in the appeal, any evidence taken by the District Court Judge and bearing on the question shall, subject to any special order of the Judge of the High Court, be brought before the Judge of the High Court as follows:

provided that the Judge of the High Court may in his or her discretion rehear the whole or any part of the evidence, and shall have full discretionary power to receive further evidence, either by oral evidence or by affidavit.

Section 23 of the Act shall, in addition to its application to nursing duties, apply with respect to the duties of—

The Ministry of Health shall from time to time provide such forms of notices, reports, and other documents as may be required for the purposes of these regulations (other than regulation 19).

The Tuberculosis Regulations 1949 (SR 1949/138) and the Tuberculosis Regulations 1949, Amendment No 1 (SR 1950/95), are hereby revoked.

All notices, requirements, applications, approvals, consents, records, prescriptions, reports, and appeals given or made, and generally all acts of authority, documents, periods of time, matters, acts, and things that originated or had effect, under the regulations hereby revoked and are of continuing effect at the coming into force of these regulations shall enure for the purposes of these regulations as if they had originated under these regulations, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated.