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Duty of medical practi. tioner to report suspected source of infection,

Schedule. Form 1.

Duty of Deputy Director to require contact to attend for

"Deputy Director" means the officer appointed to be Deputy Director of Health Services for the Colony and also includes any medical officer appointed by the Director of Medical and Health Services to act on behalf of the Deputy Director of Health Services for the purposes of this Ordinance; "examination notice" means a notice by the Deputy Director requiring a person to attend for and submit to a medical examination;

"medical practitioner' means a person who is-

(a) a Government medical officer;

(b) a medical officer of His Majesty's Navy, Army or Air

Force:

(c) a registered medical practitioner;

"transfer notice" means a notice given by a contact of intention

to transfer to another medical practitioner; "treatment" includes any periodical or other medical examination; "treatment notice" means a notice by a medical practitioner requiring a contact to attend for and submit to further examination and treatment;

**venereal disease" means gonorrhoea, syphilis, soft sore or chancre, lympho granuloma or such other disease as the Governor in Council may declare by notification in the Gazette to be venereal disease for the purposes of this Ordinance.

3. 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 at Medical Department Headquarters.

4. (1) If it appears to the Deputy Director that any person specified in a report as aforesaid is a person from whom two or more patients suspect that they have contracted a venereal disease, the Deputy Director, shall, unless it appears to him that and submit there is no reasonable cause to believe that the disease was 50

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contracted, serve on that person an examination notice in Form 2 to medical in the Schedule-

examina- tion.

(a) stating that according to information received in pur- Schedute.

suance of section 3 there is reason to believe that that Form 2. 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.""

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to issue

or treat.

notice.

A medical practitioner by whom any person is examined Examina. in pursuance of the requirements of an examination notice shall tion of contact. either send to the Deputy Director a clearance certificate in Form 3 Duty of

medical in the Schedule in respect of the contact or serve upon that person practi- a treatment notice in Form 4 in the Schedule requiring the contact toner to attend for and submit to further examination and treatment in clearance accordance with such directions as may be from time to time given certidrate by him or by such other medical practitioner as may be, for the ment time being, named in the notice, and to continue to do so until a clearance certificate has been furnished in respect of the contact Schedule, to the Deputy Director: Provided that, at any time before a clearance certificate is given in respect of any contact, the contact may send to the medical practitioner or to the Deputy Director a transfer notice of the intention of the contact to transfer to some other medical practitioner, and thereupon the treatment notice shall have effect as if the name of the medical practitioner was therein substituted for that of the medical practitioner formerly named therein.

Form 3

8. (1) A transfer notice shall specify the name and Transfer address of the medical practitioner to whom the contact proposes noticea.

to transfer, and, in the event of any change or proposed change in the address of the contact, shall also specify the new address of the contact.

(2) A contact by whom a transfer notice is given shall within seven days after giving the notice attend for and submit to medical examination by the medical practitioner named in the notice.

7. Medical practitioners shall furnish free of charge any Supply of certificates required for the purposes of this Ordinance.

certificate to be free of charge.