Service of notice to be
personal,
Power to
8. Any examination notice and any treatment notice shall be served upon the person on whom it is required to be served personally, except in any case in which service by post is authorized by the Deputy Director on being satisfied that all reasonable steps to effect personal service have been taken.
8.
The Governor in Council may amend the forms in the amend the Schedule and may add further forms.
Schedule.
Applica- tion of law of defamation.
Offences.
Penalty.
Restriction upon
10. If a patient found by a medical practitioner to be suffering from a venereal disease gives to him information as to a person from whom the patient suspects that the disease was contracted, such information shall be deemed for the purposes of the law relating to defamation to have been communicated in
pursuance of a statutory duty.
11. (0) Any patient found by a medical practitioner to be suffering from venereal disease who furnishes to such practitioner information which such patient knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is faise in a material particular; or
(a) any contact who contravenes the provisions of a treatment notice; or
(3) any contact who, having given a transfer notice fails within seven days after giving such notice to attend for and submit to medical examination by the medical practitioner named in such notice; or
(4) any contact who contravenes the provisions of subsection (a) of section 4 or who fails to attend for and submit to medical examination within the time prescribed for such examination in the examination notice by the medical practitioner whom he has specified as the medical practitioner upon whom he intends to attend for medical examination ;
shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: A fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.
12. A prosecution for an offence shall not be instituted except prosecution. by or with the consent of the Attorney General.
SCHEDULE.
FORM 1-(section 3).
Report to Deputy Director of Health Services by Medical Practitioner.
(under section 3 of the Venereal Disease Ordinance, 1952). To: Deputy Director of Health Services,
Medical Department Headquarters.
In pursuance of section 3 of the Venereal Disease Ordinance,
...(insert name of medical practitioner).......
1954, 1 hereby give notice of the following particulars, namely:-
(1) Name of patient
(2) Name of disease
(3) Name or description of person from whom it is suspected that the disease
mas Contracted
(4) Address of such person, or, if unknown, full description of place where disease
was
contracted
Dated this
day of
, 19
(Signed)
Medical Practitioner.
FORM 2 (section 4),
Examination Notice.
(under section 4 of the Venereal Disease Ordinance, 1952),
To:
According to information received in pursuance of section 3 of the Venereal Disease Ordinance, 1952, 1, the Deputy Director of Health Services have reason to believe that you may require treatment in respect of venereal disease.