Part 1: Main Provisions Section 36: Vaccination and immunisation: Scotland
This Section modifies section 40 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, which requires that vaccinations and immunisations are administered by medical practitioners or persons acting under their direction and control. The modified section provides that the Scottish Ministers are to make arrangements for the provision of vaccinations and immunisations in respect of any disease.
	The section also consequentially modifies an existing provision which delegates the section 40 function to territorial health boards, so that boards can in practice continue to exercise this function as they do now, but without the requirement that this always be under the direction and control of a medical practitioner.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is Scotland only.