2038

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 51

not definitely disclose whether or not the person to whom it relates
is suffering from any venereal disease in a communicable form, the
Director-General may, by writing signed by him, authorize any two
medical practitioners to examine such person and to report as to his
state of health in relation to venereal disease, and shall give the
person concerned notice in writing in the form No. 3 in the Schedule
hereto requiring him to attend for examination at a time and place
to be therein specified.

(2.) Where the person to be examined as aforesaid is a woman,
at least one of the medical practitioners authorized to conduct the
examination shall be a woman, unless such a medical practitioner is
not available within twenty miles of the place where the examination
is to be held.

(3.) Every person to whom a notice is given under this regulation
and who fails to attend for examination as therein required, or who,
having attended, refuses to submit to the required examination,
commits an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable to
a fine of £20.

DETENTION ORDER.

9. (1.) If any person required by a notice under these regulations
   to furnish to the Director-General a medical certificate as to the state
   of his health in relation to any venereal disease fails to furnish such certificate within the time limited by that notice, or if any such person is
   medically certified to be suffering from venereal disease in a communicable form, the Director-General may; if he thinks it necessary or expedient in the public interest so to do, authorize a Medical Officer of Health to make an order under section 84 of the Health Act, 1920, for the removal of such person to a hospital or other place where he may be effectively isolated.

(2.) The Medical Officer in charge of the hospital or place to which
any such person has been removed as aforesaid may make such examination of, and apply such treatment to, such person as may in his opinion be necessary for the diagnosis and cure of venereal disease, and may for that purpose detain such person for a period not exceeding six weeks: Provided that the Director-General may from time to time, on the recommendation of the Medical Officer in charge of such hospital or other place, extend the said period for not more than six weeks at any one time, until he is satisfied that the person detained is no longer suffering from venereal disease in a communicable form.

(3.) Any person detained as herein provided may, subject to the provisions of this clause, make application in writing to a Stipendiary Magistrate usually exercising jurisdiction in the locality where he is detained to be examined by two medical practitioners, and thereupon such Magistrate shall make an order for his examination accordingly by two medical practitioners to be named in the order, who shall be directed to report to the Magistrate in writing as soon as conveniently may be, but not later in any case than seven days after the date of the order.

(4.) If it appears from the report that the medical practitioners are agreed that such person is free from venereal disease in a communicable form, but not otherwise, the Magistrate shall make an order for his release directed to the Superintendent or other officer in charge of the hospital or place where such person is detained, and he shall be released accordingly.

(5.) An application for examination as aforesaid shall not be received by a Magistrate within three calendar months from the receipt of a like application from the same person.

FREE TREATMENT IN EXCEPTIONAL CASES.

10. (1.) In any case where the Director-General is satisfied that treatment is not conveniently obtainable at a public hospital or public clinic, he may authorize any registered medical practitioner to administer free treatment, subject to the provisions of this clause, to any person suffering from any venereal disease.

(2.) In any such case the medical practitioner shall, before commencing a course of treatment, obtain from the patient a statement in writing that he is unable to pay for treatment, and the medical practitioner shall forthwith forward such statement to the Director-General, together with a statement signed by him to the effect that