CAP. 231]
Undesirable Medical Advertisements
Column 1
Disease or condition
[1988 Ed.
Column 2
Purposes for which
advertising is permitted
Treatment of hard skin and corns by means of the application of corn plasters or solvents.
Relief or prevention of common minor skin conditions including dry and chapped skin, cold sores, pruritus, insect bites, heat rash and napkin rash.
(Schedule I added, 65 of 1988, s. 8)
SCHEDULE 2
PURPOSES FOR WHICH IT IS PROHIBITED TO ADVERTISE ANY MEDICINE, SURGICAL APPLIANCE OR TREATMENT
[s. 3]
1. The induction of menstruation or relief of amenorrhea or delayed menstruation or any other gynaecological or obstetrical disease.
2.
3.
The promotion of sexual virility, desire or fertility, or the restoration of lost youth. The correction of deformity or the surgical alteration of a person's appearance.
(Schedule 2 added, 65 of 1988, s. 8)
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SCHEDULE 3
PURPOSES FOR WHICH ADVERTISEMENTS ARE PROHIBITED
(s. 3A]
(Replaced, 65 of 1988, s. 7)
1. The prevention, relief or cure of any venereal disease, that is to say, syphilis, gonorrhoea, soft chancre, or other genito-urinary diseases in any of their forms.
2. The prevention, relief or cure of Bright's disease, cancer, consumption or tuberculosis, leprosy, lupus, diabetes, epilepsy or fits, locomotor ataxy, paralysis or infantile paralysis.
3. The prevention, relief or cure of arterio-sclerosis, septicaemia, diphtheria, dropsy, erysipelas, gallstones, kidney stones and bladder stones, goitre, heart disease, tetanus or lockjaw, pleurisy, pneumonia, scarlet fever, smallpox, trachoma, amenorrhoea, hernia or rupture, or blindness.
4. The prevention or cure of any structural or organic ailment of the auditory system.
5. The cure of any habit associated with sexual indulgence, or the prevention, relief or cure of any ailment associated with those habits, or the promotion of sexual virility, desire or fertility, or the restoration or stimulation of the mental faculties or lost youth. (Amended, L.N. 100/68)