Child to be vaccinated within three months

(1) Every parent of a child in Belize shall, within three months after the birth of the child, or within three months after receiving into custody the child, take or cause the child to be taken to a public vaccinator of the district in which such child is then resident, to be vaccinated according to this Act, unless the child has been previously vaccinated by a surgeon. (2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the public vaccinator shall with all reasonable despatch proceed to vaccinate the child. 86 (3) If when the child is taken to the public vaccinator within the period prescribed by subsection (1) of this section and the public vaccinator does not have any vaccine lymph, or otherwise is unable to vaccinate the child, then and in every such case the parent shall take or cause the child to be taken to the public vaccinator within such time thereafter and at such place as the public vaccinator appoints.