CAP. 275]
Venereal Disease
[1989 Ed.
3. Duty of medical practitioner to report suspected source of infection
Any medical practitioner who receives from a patient, found by him to be suffering from a venereal disease, information as to a person from whom the patient suspects that the disease was contracted shall, unless having regard to the time at which sexual relations between the parties are alleged to have taken place and any other information before him, such practitioner is of opinion that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the disease was so contracted, send a report in Form 1 in the Schedule setting out particulars as to the patient and the disease from which the patient is suffering and as to the person from whom it is suspected that the disease was contracted, to the Deputy Director of Health, Department of Health. (Amended L.N. 76 of 1989)
4. Duty of Deputy Director to require contact to attend for and submit to medical examination
(1) If it appears to the Deputy Director that any person specified in a report as aforesaid is a person from whom 2 or more patients suspect that they have contracted a venereal disease, the Deputy Director shall, unless it appears to him that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the disease was so contracted, serve on that person an examination notice in Form 2 in the Schedule—
(a) stating that according to information received in pursuance of section 3 there is reason to believe that that person may require treatment in respect of venereal disease; and
(b) requiring that person to attend for and submit to medical examination by a medical practitioner within such period as may be specified in the notice.
(2) Upon service upon any person of an examination notice that person shall forthwith specify to the Deputy Director or to the person by whom such notice is served the medical practitioner upon whom he intends to attend for medical examination.
5. Examination of contact. Duty of medical practitioner to issue clearance certificate or treatment notice
A medical practitioner by whom any person is examined in pursuance of the requirements of an examination notice shall either send to the Deputy Director a clearance certificate in Form 3 in the Schedule in respect of the contact or serve upon that person a treatment notice in Form 4 in the Schedule requiring the contact to attend for and submit to further examination and treatment in accordance with such directions as may be from time to time given by him or by such other medical practitioner as may be, for the time being,