Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00692:clause:5_15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00692
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 5 cl 15
Character Range: 10970–12496

15  Standard vaccination schedule
 (1) For paragraph (a) of the definition of immunised in subsection 3(1) of the Act, the standard vaccination schedule for a child is determined by the following table.

If the child was born…                                … then the standard vaccination schedule for the child is the schedule set out in the following Schedule to this determination
on or after 1 May 1998 and before 1 July 2012         Schedule 1
on or after 1 July 2012 and before 1 October 2014     Schedule 2
on or after 1 October 2014 and before 1 January 2017  Schedule 3
on or after 1 January 2017 and before 1 July 2024     Schedule 4
on or after 1 July 2024                               Schedule 5

 (2) The following paragraphs form part of the standard vaccination schedules mentioned in subsection (1):

           (a)   a child must receive a vaccination against each antigen or disease mentioned in column 3 of an item of the standard vaccination schedule for the child no later than one month after reaching the age mentioned in column 2 for that item; and

           (b) the vaccine for the vaccination against each antigen or disease mentioned in the standard vaccination schedule for a child must be, if the child receives the vaccination in Australia:

               (i)    administered to the child by a recognised immunisation provider; and

               (ii)  registered as a vaccine on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods maintained under section 9A of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.