Cap. 124 Art. 5Duty of the Chief Government Medical Officer on receipt by him of a notice sent under section 3.

(1) If it appears to the Chief Government Medical Officer that any person being a person specified in notices sent under section 3 of this Act, is a person from whom two or more patients suspect that they have contracted a venereal disease, he shall, unless it appears to him that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the disease was so contracted, serve on that person a notice in the prescribed form -

(a) stating that, according to information received in pursuance of this Act, 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 officer deputed by the said Chief Government Medical Officer for the purpose, within such period and in such a place as may be specified in the notice.

(2) Any such notice shall be served upon the person on whom it is required to be served either personally or by a letter sent by registered post to the last known place of residence or resort of the person concerned. In the latter case the letter shall be deemed to have been delivered in the ordinary course of the postal service, unless proof to the contrary is produced.