Regulation 2

“booster diphtheria vaccination” means a further vaccination against diphtheria of a child who has completed a course of primary diphtheria vaccination;

“certificate of temporary unfitness”, in relation to a child, means a certificate of unfitness issued by a medical practitioner under regulation 8(1) stating that, in the medical practitioner’s opinion, the child is temporarily unfit to be vaccinated against diphtheria or measles, as the case may be;

“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Board;

“diphtheria vaccine” means any preparation of diphtheria toxoid, whether or not the preparation also contains other toxoids;

“measles vaccine” means any preparation of attenuated live measles virus, whether or not the preparation also contains other attenuated live viruses;

“primary diphtheria vaccination” means the vaccination against diphtheria of a child who has not been previously vaccinated against diphtheria;

“specified date”, in relation to a certificate of temporary unfitness, means the date specified in that certificate in accordance with regulation 8(2)(b);

“vaccination against diphtheria” means the administration of a diphtheria vaccine to a child, for the purpose of providing protection against infection by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae;

“vaccination against measles” means the administration of a measles vaccine to a child, for the purpose of providing protection against infection by the measles virus.