Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Any local
government may provide for immunisation of any person who consents to
treatment against diphtheria, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, tetanus, and such
other diseases as the Governor prescribes and is hereby authorised to
prescribe by regulation as diseases to which this section applies wholly
free of cost to the person treated and the cost involved shall be paid by the
local government, which is hereby authorised to meet the cost from the annual
health rate made, levied and collected by it under and for the purposes of
this Act.
(2) The Executive
Director, Personal Health may provide for immunisation of any person who
consents to treatment against any disease which is mentioned in
subsection (1) or which is prescribed as a disease to which this
section applies, wholly free of cost to the person treated and the cost
involved shall be paid from money appropriated by Parliament for the purposes
of this Act.
[Section 340 inserted by No. 71 of 1948
s. 13; amended by No. 21 of 1957 s. 12; No. 28 of 1984
s. 45; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]
[Heading inserted by No. 23 of 1960
s. 4.]