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VENEREAL DISEASE ACT 1917

VENEREAL DISEASE ACT 1917 - LONG TITLE

An Act to prevent the treatment of Venereal Disease otherwise than
by duly qualified medical Practitioners, and to control the supply
of Remedies therefor; and for other matters connected therewith.{1}
[24th May 1917]
Prevention of the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by
duly qualified persons.

VENEREAL DISEASE ACT 1917 - SECT 1

1.(1) In any area in which this section is in operation, a person
shall not, unless he is a duly qualified medical practitioner, for
reward either direct or indirect, treat any person for venereal
disease or prescribe any remedy therefor, or give any advice in
connection with the treatment thereof, whether the advice is given
to the person to be treated or to any other person.

(2) This section shall operate in any area to which it is applied
by order of... the Local Government Board for... Ireland...:

Provided that no order shall be made in respect of any area until
a scheme for the gratuitous treatment of persons in that area
suffering from venereal disease has been approved by... the Local
Government Board for... Ireland... and is already in operation.

VENEREAL DISEASE ACT 1917 - SECT 2
Restriction on advertisements, &c.

2.(1) A person shall not by any advertisement or any public notice
or announcement treat or offer to treat any person for venereal
disease, or prescribe or offer to prescribe any remedy therefor, or
offer to give or give any advice in connection with the treatment
thereof.

(2)...:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any
advertisement, notification, [or announcement] made or published by
any local or public authority or made or published with the
sanction of... the Local Government Board for... Ireland..., or to
any publication sent only to duly qualified medical practitioners or
to wholesale or retail chemists for the purposes of their business.

VENEREAL DISEASE ACT 1917 - SECT 3
Penalties.

3. If any person acts in contravention of any of the provisions of
this Act, he shall be liable on conviction on indictment to
imprisonment... for a term not exceeding two years, or on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to
imprisonment... for a term not exceeding six months.

VENEREAL DISEASE ACT 1917 - SECT 4
Definition.

4. In this Act the expression "venereal disease" means syphilis,
gonorrh-a, or soft chancre.

VENEREAL DISEASE ACT 1917 - SECT 5
Short title.

5. This Act may be cited as the Venereal Disease Act, 1917.