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A UK Parliamentary briefing note published on November 2009 maintains that the government has the power to impose compulsory swine flu vaccinations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
Dr Gavin Colthart authored the “information is provided to Members of Parliament in support of their parliamentary duties.”
The note also says that local authorities can declare people who are suspected of having the swine flu to be guilty of a criminal offence.
The note also makes the claim for which there is as yet no evidence that the swine flu can cause Guillain-Barré syndrome in an apparent attempt to downplay the cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome reported in connection with the swine flu jab in the US and France.
Extracts:
“Powers to impose compulsory vaccination
Most legal powers needed to manage a pandemic are provided under the Public Health Acts covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which empower local authorities to require examination, hospitalisation, or isolation of infected persons, create a criminal offence relating to exposing others to risk of infection, and allow some controls over school attendance and playgrounds.
In other words, although local authorities cannot force people to be vaccinated under those powers, they can for example refuse to admit children to school unless they have been vaccinated.
However, the Government has extremely broad powers for tackling an emergency, in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. This includes a special procedure for making regulations in an emergency, if existing legislation could not relied upon without the risk of serious delay, and various other conditions are met.
In particular:
22 Scope of emergency regulations
(1) Emergency regulations may make any provision which the person making the regulations is satisfied is appropriate for the purpose of preventing, controlling or mitigating an aspect or effect of the emergency in respect of which the regulations are made.
(2) In particular, emergency regulations may make any provision which the person making the regulations is satisfied is appropriate for the purpose of—
(a) protecting human life, health or safety,
(b) treating human illness or injury,
Thus, if the situation became serious enough for compulsory vaccination to be considered necessary, regulations could be introduced under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and these could include penalties for non-compliance.”
“Vaccine safety concerns
Anti-vaccine activists and others have opposed widespread use of any new vaccine, arguing that the accelerated clinical testing of the new vaccines makes it difficult to ensure safety and that the generally mild course of novel H1N1 flu infection does not justify exposing the population to vaccine-related risks.
Particular concern has been raised regarding Guillain-Barré syndrome, a nerve disease causing reversible paralysis, which has been associated with flu vaccinations. A rise in cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome resulted in the cessation of a 1976 national flu vaccination programme in the USA. Analysis of the data from that time, and several subsequent studies, suggest that there is a small rise in the incidence of the syndrome (between 1:100,000 and 1:1,000,000).
However, there is also evidence that flu infection itself may be a trigger for Guillain-Barré syndrome and that this risk may be greater than the risk from vaccination.
In the absence of clear evidence on the balance of risks and benefits relating to adverse events such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, WHO have advised intensive surveillance for any side effects during and after any vaccine programme. In the UK the HPA has announced an enhanced surveillance programme specifically for Guillain-Barré syndrome.”
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