Cap. 124 Art. 3Special practitioner’s duty in certain circumstances to notify the Chief Government Medical Officer of certain particulars relatingtoapatient suffering from venereal disease.

Subject to the provisions contained in section 4 of this Act, any special 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, the practitioner is of opinion that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the disease was so contracted, send a notice in the prescribed form to the Chief Government Medical Officer giving the prescribed 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.