West Pakistan Vaccination Ordinance, 1958

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THE WEST PAKISTAN VACCINATION ORDINANCE, 1958 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CONTENTS 
Preamble 
1. Short title and extent 
2. Definitions 
3. Duty of every local authority to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance 
4.  
5.  
6. Certificate of protection  
7. Re-vaccination in case of unsuccessful vaccination 
8. Certificate of unfitness 
9. Certificate of insusceptibility 
9-A. Vaccination of unprotected persons  
9-B. Periodic re-vaccination 
10.  
11. Fees 
12. Enquiry by Superintendent of Vaccination 
13. Report to the sub-Divisional Magistrate and punishment 
14. Punishment 
15. Power of Government to make rules 
16. Repeal 
 

 
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THE WEST PAKISTAN VACCINATION ORDINANCE, 1958 
WEST PAKISTAN ORDINANCE NO. XXVII OF 1958 
AN  
ORDINANCE 
to consolidate and amend the law relating to vaccination in the Province of West Pakistan. 
Preamble.- WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to 
vaccination in the Province of West Pakistan; 
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Presidential Proclamation of the 7th day of October, 
1958, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor of West Pakistan is 
pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:__ 
1. Short title and extent. - (1) This Ordinance may be called the West Pakis tan Vaccination 
Ordinance, 1958. 
1[(2) It extends to the whole of the Province of West Pakistan, except the Tribal Areas.] 
2. Definitions. - In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the following 
expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say__ 
2[(a)  ‘child’ means a person who has not completed the age of sixteen years;] 
3[(aa)] “Government” means the Government of West Pakistan; 
(b) “guardian” includes any person who has accepted or assumed the care or 
custody of any child;  
(c) “parent” means the father or mother of a child; 
4[(d)  ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance; 
5[(dd)  “Smallpox Eradication Officer” means an officer appointed by Government to 
perform the functions and duties of the Smallpox Eradication Officer under this 
Ordinance;] 
 (e)  ‘Superintendent of Vaccination’ means a person appointed to perform the duties 
of Superintendent of Vaccination under this Ordinance; 
6[7[(f)] “unprotected child” and “unprotected person” mean respectively a child or a 
person who has not been protected from smallpox by having had that  disease, 
or by having not been successfully vaccinated, and who has not been certified 
 
1Substituted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s.2(2). 
2Inserted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 3(i). 
3Re-lettered by the Ordinance ibid. 
4Added by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XXXVIII of 1959, s. 2(i). 
5Inserted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 3(ii). 
6Renumbered by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XXXVIII of 1959, s. 2(ii). 
7Substituted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 3(iii). 
 
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under this Ordinance to be insusceptible to vaccination;] 
1[(g)  ‘vaccination’ means the introduction of Vaccinia Virus (Lymph) into the skin 
in order to confer protection against smallpox; and  
(h)  ‘vaccinator’ means any person appointed to perform the operation of 
vaccination.] 
3. Duty of every local authority to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance.- 2[(1) It shall 
be the duty of every local authority or Smallpox Eradication Officer to enforce the provisions of this 
Ordinance within their respective jurisdictions so that all unprotected children and persons are 
vaccinated.  
(2) If the Deputy Commissioner receives information from the District Health Officer or any 
Smallpox Eradication Officer that a local authority has failed to execute or enforce any of the 
provisions of this Ordinance relating to the vaccination of unprotected children or persons, he m ay, 
after making such enquiry from the local authority as he thinks fit, by order, empower any public 
servant to execute or enforce the said provisions or to procure the execution or enforcement thereof, 
and the order may fix a reasonable remuneration to b e paid to such public servant, and such 
remuneration together with any expenses incurred by the said public servant in performing the duties 
of the local authority under this Ordinance shall be paid by the local authority.]  
(3) If the expenses and the remuneration are not so paid, the Deputy Commissioner may make 
an order directing any person who for the time being has custody of any moneys on behalf of the 
local authority, as its officer, treasurer, banker, or otherwise to pay such expenses  and remuneration 
from such moneys as he may have in his hands or may from time to time receive, and such person 
shall be bound to obey such order. 
(4) When the Deputy Commissioner makes any order under this section, he shall forthwith 
forward to the Commissioner and to the local authority affected thereby a copy of the order with a 
statement of reasons for making it, and it shall be in the discretion of the Commissioner to rescind the 
order or to direct that it may continue in force with or without modifications. 
(5) The Commissioner shall forthwith submit to Government a report of every case occurring 
under this section, and Government may confirm, revise or modify the order, or make in respect thereof 
any other order which the Commissioner could have made: 
Provided that no order of the Deputy Commissioner or the Commissioner passed under this 
section shall be confirmed, revised or modified by Government without giving the local authority a 
reasonable opportunity of showing cause against such order. 
3[4. (1) After an unprotected child has attained the age of six months and before the child is 
one year of age, the parent or guardian of such child shall take it or cause it to be taken to a 
vaccinator or any other person authorised by Government in this behalf, to be vaccinated, or send for 
a vaccinator, or other authorised person to vaccinate it.  
(2) Such vaccinator or other authorised person shall vaccinate the child and deliver to its parent 
or guardian a memorandum stating the date on which the vaccination has been performed and the date 
on which the child is to be inspected in order to ascertain the result of the operation, or shall if he finds 
 
1Substituted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XXXVIII of 1959, s. 2(iii). 
2Substituted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 4. 
3Subs. by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969), s.5. 
 
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such child in a state unfit for vaccination, deliver to its parent or guardian a certificate under his han d 
to the effect that the child is in a state unfit for vaccination for the whole or part of the current 
vaccination season, and requiring its production for re-vaccination on the expiry of the said period.] 
1[5. The parent or guardian of every child which  has been vaccinated under section 4 shall on 
the date of inspection stated in the memorandum take the child or cause it to be taken to a vaccinator 
or any other person authorized in this behalf by Government for inspection or get it inspected at his 
own house by a vaccinator or such authorized person and such vaccinator or authorised person shall 
then append to the memorandum a certificate showing the result of such inspection and stating that the 
child has been inspected.] 
6. Certificate of protection.- When it is ascertained at the time of inspecting a child under 
section 5 that the vaccination has been successful, a certificate shall be delivered by the vaccinator to 
the parent or guardian of such child to that effect, and such child shall thereafter be deemed to be 
protected.  
7. Re-vaccination in case of unsuccessful vaccination. - When it is ascertained as aforesaid 
that the vaccination has been unsuccessful the parent or guardian shall, if the vaccinator so directs  
cause the child to be forthwith again vaccinated and subsequently inspected in the manner 
hereinbefore provided. 
 
8. Certificate of unfitness.- A certificate granted under section 4 showing the unfitness of a  
child for vaccination shall remain in force for the period stated therein and on the termination of that 
period, 2[* * * * * * *] the parent or guardian of such child shall take the child or cause it to be taken 
to a vaccinator to be vaccinated or procure its vaccination at his own house by a vaccinator: 
Provided that if the child is still found unfit for vaccination, the certificate granted under 
section 4 shall be renewed. 
9. Certificate of insusceptibility.- If the Superintendent of Vaccination 3[or any other officer 
authorised in this behalf by Government] is of the opinion that a child which has been three times 
unsuccessfully vaccinated is insusceptible of successful vaccination, he shall deliver to the p arent or 
guardian of such child a certificate under his hand to that effect and the parent or guardian shall 
thenceforth not be required to cause the child to be vaccinated. 
4[9-A. Vaccination of un -protected persons ._ Every un-protected person shall, within six 
months of the coming into force of the West Pakistan Vaccination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1969, get 
himself vaccinated by a vaccinator or other person authorised in this behalf by Government. 
9-B. Periodic re-vaccination._ (1) Every child or other person who has been vaccinated and 
to whom a certificate of insusceptibility has not been granted under section 9, shall after three years of 
its or his last vaccination, and within sixty days of the expiry of the said pe riod, get itself or himself 
re-vaccinated by a vaccinator or other person authorised in this behalf by Government.  
(2) In case of an out-break of smallpox in the Province or any part thereof, or if in the opinion 
of Government mass vaccination campaign is  necessary in any  area, Government may issue a 
notification in the official Gazette, specifying the area or areas where smallpox has broken out or the 
mass vaccination campaign is being started and on the issue of such a notification, every child or other 
 
1 Subs. by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s.6. 
2Omitted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XXXVIII of 1959, s. 4. 
3Inserted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 7. 
4Inserted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 8. 
 
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person residing in the area or areas specified in the said notification, who has been previously 
vaccinated and has not been declared insusceptible to vaccination, shall get itself or himself re -
vaccinated by a vaccinator or other person authorised under sub-section (1) within such period as may 
be specified in the said notification.  
(3) A certificate of re -vaccination shall be delivered by the vaccinator or other person 
authorised under sub-section (1) to every child or other person who is vaccinated under the provisions 
of this section.] 
1[10. The vaccination under this Ordinance shall be performed with such lymph or freeze dried 
smallpox vaccine as may be prescribed.] 
11. Fees.-  No fee shall be charged by any vaccinator for vaccination: 
2[* * * * * * *] 
12. Enquiry by Superintendent of Vaccination.- 3[If the Superintendent of Vaccination or 
any other person authorised in this behalf by Government, after an on -the-spot enquiry, has reason to 
believe that an unprotected person or the parent or guardian of an unprotected child has contravened 
the provisions of this Ordinance, he shall deliver a notice in the prescribed manner to such person, 
parent or guardian requiring him to comp ly with such provisions of the Ordinance as he may have 
contravened.]  
13. Report to the sub-Divisional Magistrate and punishment.-  4[(1) If the notice delivered 
under the last preceding section is not complied with, the Superintendent of Vaccination or other 
person authorised under section 12 shall report the matter to a Magistrate of the first class who shall 
thereupon summon the person, parent or guardian to whom the notice was issued to comply with the 
notice within a time to be fixed by the Magistrate.  
(2) If such person, parent or guardian fails to comply with the orders of the Magistrate passed 
under sub-section (1), then the Mag istrate may punish such person, parent or guardian with simple 
imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to one 
hundred rupees, or with both.] 
14. Punishment.- Whoever commits a breach of the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules 
made thereunder shall be punished with simple imprisonment which may extend to three months, or 
with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both. 
15. Power of Government to make rules. - (1) Government may frame rules for the purpose 
of carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance. 
 
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers , Government 
may frame rules for all or any of the following purposes, namely:__ 
(a) prescribing qualifications, conditions of service and uniform for vaccinators; 
5[(aa) prescribing the authorities by whom appointments under this Ordinance are to 
 
1Substituted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 9.  
2Omitted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 10. 
3Substituted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 11. 
4Substituted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s.12. 
5Inserted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XXXVIII of 1959, s.5. 
 
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be made;] 
(b) regulating the manner in which the Superintendent of Vaccination shall 
exercise his duties under this Ordinance; 
(c) prescribing the lymph that may be used for vaccination; 
1[(d) *  * * * * * *] 
(e) prescribing registers to be maintained under this Ordinance; and 
(f) prescribing the forms for notices and certificates. 
16. Repeal.-  The following enactments are hereby repealed:__ 
(a) the Vaccination Act, 1880 (XIII of 1880); 
(b) the Sind Vaccination Act, 1892 (Sind I of 1892);   
(c) the Bombay District Vaccination Act, 1892  (Bombay I of 1892), as applicable to the 
former State of Khairpur; 
(d) the Punjab Vaccination Law Amendment Act, 1925 (Punjab IX 1925); 
(e) the Punjab Vaccination Law Amendment Act, 1929 (Punjab II of 1929); and 
(f) the North-West Frontier Province Vaccination Law (Amendment) Act, 1947 (N.W.F.P. 
XI of 1947). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RGN. Dated.13-05-2025 
 
1Deleted by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVI of 1969, s. 13.