Proposed Northern Ireland Public Health Bill sets into law mandatory vaccines

The proposed Northern Ireland Public Health Bill is attempting to implement mandatory vaccinations. 

UK solicitor Anna de Buisseret has written to the UK representative to the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) ethics group, questioning proposals to implement mandatory vaccinations when such a proposal violates both domestic and international civil and criminal laws, including the law of war, as well as medical ethics and morals.

She has requested that people ask their countries’ representatives on WHO’s ethics group the same.

Northern Ireland’s proposed Public Health Bill will replace the current Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.  The Department of Health recently held a public consultation aimed at developing the new Bill for the region.  The consultation was a two-stage process.

The initial consultation, held in September 2015, focused on reviewing the current 1967 Act and gathering feedback on its effectiveness. The consultation also explored the need for legislative reform and sought input on shaping future public health protection law in Northern Ireland.

The second consultation, launched in July 2024, was seeking views on specific policy proposals that will underpin the development of a new Public Health Bill. This consultation built on the recommendations from the 2015 review and incorporated lessons learned from recent public health emergencies. The second consultation was open for 12 weeks and closed on 27 September 2024. The consultation documents are available to read HERE.

The proposed Public Health Bill is centred around the “all hazards” approach.   This “all hazards” approach includes “all infection and contamination that present, or could present, a significant harm to human health.” 

Notably, the proposed Bill incorporates “contamination.”  The focus of the 1967 Act is infectious diseases.  However, according to the consultation documents, the proposed new Bill will encompass all “infection and contamination including biological, chemical and radiological, in addition to infectious diseases.”

Among others, the proposed Bill will “update certain powers around restrictions on employment, quarantine, isolation and medical examination.”

The Public Health Bill Consultation document doesn’t classify vaccination as a medical treatment. Why?  Because the document states that imposing medical treatments will be prohibited.  Vaccines, on the other hand, which the Bill classifies as prophylactic treatments, can be imposed.  By not recognising vaccines as medical treatments, they are attempting to override people’s right of refusal, which is closely related to the right to informed consent which must be freely given.

The Northern Ireland ‘Public Health Bill Consultation document’ stated:

Restrictions/ emergency powers

In relation to a person, the regulations may impose a ‘special restriction or

requirement’ such as … require a person to vaccinated [sic] or to receive other prophylactic treatment.

144. Specific provision will be made prohibiting regulations that impose or enable the imposition of a requirement that a person undergoes medical treatment. Medical treatment does not include vaccination and other prophylactic treatment.

Limitations: Regulations imposing restrictions or requirements

Domestic Health Protection Regulations

172. Regulations that include provision imposing a requirement on persons to be vaccinated or to receive other prophylactic treatment must: provide for exemptions from that requirement; and include provision about how a person who is entitled to an exemption is to evidence that entitlement.

International Travel Regulations

178. Regulations made under this suite of provisions (international travel) may not include provision requiring a person to undergo medical treatment. Medical treatment does not include vaccination and other prophylactic treatment.

179. Regulations that include provision imposing a requirement on persons to be vaccinated or to receive other prophylactic treatment must: provide for exemptions from that requirement; and include provision about how a person who is entitled to an exemption is to evidence that entitlement.

Prophylactic treatments are medical treatments. The difference between therapeutic and prophylactic treatments and medications is that prophylactics are given to prevent disease or to stop it from getting worse. Prophylactic medicine includes medications that prevent an illness, a recurrence of a condition (migraines, seizures, etc.), birth control or preventative surgery.  In some instances, it is the same drug used as a prophylactic and a therapeutic, and it is only the dose that differs. In the case of mRNA technology, whether the drug is prophylactic or therapeutic is not so clear.

Injections using mRNA technology are called “vaccines,” even though they are gene therapy and do not prevent disease as was the case with covid.  It is claimed that there are mRNA “vaccines” to “prevent” infectious diseases, such as covid, and there are mRNA “vaccines” that are showing promising results to treat – not prevent – cancer.  As the term “vaccines” is used loosely and can mean whatever they want it to mean, we can assume they would use “prophylactic” loosely as well.

For this article, we will assume they are not preparing to impose other prophylactics such as birth control – which is not out of the realm of possibility – and focus on what they deem to be prophylactic vaccines.

By classing some medical treatments as “prophylactic” they are attempting to put into law that they can impose (what they choose to classify as) “vaccines” on us – unless you are deemed to be “entitled to an exemption” and can provide evidence to the satisfaction of those who make up the exemption rules. 

The imposing of vaccines on people both domestically and for international travel is a point that Anna de Buisseret raised in an email to the UK representative of the WHO’s ethics team.

On Sunday, de Buisseret tweeted images of an email to Michael Parker, the UK’s ethics representative to WHO.  We’ve published both her comments in her tweet and her email below.

Michael Parker is the UK representative on the ethics team of the WHO.

I’ve therefore decided to email him to ask him to explain why mandatory vaccination has been proposed both during covid and since – given it prima facie breaches both domestic and international civil and criminal laws, (including the law of war), medical ethics and morals.

I will share his response once he replies – if he does.

May I ask that others ask their country’s representative the same question: we will then be able to compare notes to see how they justify/explain themselves.  [See the image at the end of the article for the members of WHO’s ethics team.]

If you value bodily autonomy and not being forced vaccinated, then we need to work together to place these decision-makers under scrutiny and to make our objections known.

Anna de Buisseret on Twitter, 6 October 2024

Email to Michael Parker from Anna de Buisseret

Dear Michael

I understand that you are very much involved with the ethics of pandemic management.

Please can you explain to me why mandatory vaccination has been proposed both during the covid pandemic and in various government documents (including the latest Northern Ireland public health consultation) – given it prima facie breaches both domestic and international civil and criminal laws (including the law of war) medical ethics and morals?

Governments justify their stance by stating that they are simply following guidelines of the likes of the WHO of which you are involved.

I’m a qualified Solicitor who has been advising people on their human rights and applicable laws and medical ethics and have been shocked and appalled by the proposals for mandatory health interventions including vaccinations.

Please also provide me with a copy of your CV so I can better understand how much law and medical ethics you have studied.

I look forward to hearing further from you.

Yours sincerely, Anna de Buisseret Solicitor

In her tweet, De Buisseret also provided the image below showing a list of all the members of the WHO Ethics & Covid Expert Group so people in other countries know who to ask why mandatory vaccination is being proposed.

Featured image: Health workers preparing to vaccinate members of the public at the SSE Arena, Belfast Live, 1 April 2021