Compulsory vaccination

(1) Vaccination shall be compulsory in every municipality in respect of such persons and to such extent as may be prescribed.

1. (2) The procedure prescribed in such rules for enforcing vaccination shall be observed.
   • • 438. Obligation to give information of smallpox.- Where an inmate of any dwelling place is suffering from smallpox, the head of the family to which the inmate belongs and in his default, the occupier or person in charge of such place, shall inform the Commissioner with the least practicable delay.
   • • 439. Restriction on entry of persons inoculated for smallpox.- No person who has undergone the operation of inoculation shall enter any municipality before the lapse of forty days from the date of inoculation without a certificate from a medical practitioner of such class as the council may authorise to grant such certificates, stating that such person is no longer likely to produce smallpox by contact or near approach CHAPTER – XIX RULES, BYE-LAWS AND REGULATIONS Rules
   • • 440. Power of Government to make rules.- (1) Without prejudice to any power to make rules contained elsewhere in this Act, the Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out all or any of the purposes of this Act.
2. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for or regulate ---
   • (a) all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed;
   • (b) all maters not expressly provided for in this Act relating to the election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman;
   • (c) the conditions on which property may be acquired by the municipal council or on which property vested in or belonging to the municipal council may be transferred by sale, mortgage, lease, exchanges or otherwise;
   • (d) the conditions on which the property of any charitable endowment the management and superintendence of which have been made over to the municipal council may be acquired by it or on which property so acquired may be transferred by sale, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise;
   • (e) the working of provident funds;
   • (f) the matters mentioned in section 198, the conditions on which grants-in-aid shall be paid from the municipal fund for purposes of medical relief and the conditions on which grants and loans may be made to co-operative building societies;
   • (g) the intermediate offices, if any, through which correspondence between the municipal authorities and the Government or officers of the Government shall pass;
   • (h) the preparation of plans and estimates for works which are to be partly or wholly constructed at the expense of the municipal council and the power of the municipal authorities or officers of the Government to accord professional or administrative sanction to estimates;
     • (i) the accounts to be kept by the municipal council; the manner in which such accounts shall be audited and published and the conditions under which the rate-payers may appear before auditors, inspect books and vouchers and take exception to items entered or omitted therein;
   • (j) the estimate of receipts and expenditure returns, statements and reports to be submitted by municipal council;
   • (k) the mode in which the officers of the Government shall advise and assist municipal councils in carrying out the purposes of this Act;
   • (l) the interpellation of the Chairman by the members of the council;
   • (m) the moving of resolutions at the meetings of the council;
   • (n) the sharing between local authorities of the proceeds of the profession tax and other taxes or income levied or obtained under this Act or any other Act;
   • (o) the form and the manner in which the registers for vital statistics shall be maintained, the form of returns or certificates and the fees in respect thereof;
   • (p) the transfer of allotments entered in the sanctioned budget of a municipal council from one head to another;
   • (q) the powers of auditors, inspecting and superintending officers and officers authorised to hold inquiries, to summon and examine witnesses, and to compel the production of documents and all other matters connected with audit, inspection and superintendence;
   • (r) determining the cost of buildings and lands;
   • (s) the appeal against the orders of the Commissioner for which no provision has been made in this Act.
3. (3) In making any rule, the Government may provide that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
4. (4) Every rule made under this Act, shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before the Legislative Assembly of Puducherry while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions aforesaid, the Assembly makes any modification in the rule or decides that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.