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Legal Guidance - Sexually Transmitted Diseases
This
Guidance Notice seeks to give information to healers in Please
note that I am not a qualified legal practitioner and healers affected by
this legislation should seek professional legal advice as appropriate. Please
read the introductory guidance on the legislative process in the Chapter
21 of the Venereal Disease Act 1917 is reproduced below under the terms of Crown Copyright Policy Guidance
issued by HMSO (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office). Copyright is owned by the Crown and
information on reproduction rights may be found on the HMSO website at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/crown-copyright/copyright-guidance/reproduction-of-legislation.htm
. Background At
the time of the First World War, there was concern within medical and
Government circles about the high number of soldiers returning from the
fighting zones with venereal diseases and about the potential for their
partners at home also to become infected with these diseases. The social
stigma attached to visiting local doctors for treatment of venereal diseases
led the Government of the day to decide that it would be appropriate to
establish a network of publicly funded venereal disease clinics across the
nation and to fund these from the public purse. The intention was that
returning soldiers would be able to attend these clinics discretely and
without cost for treatment. At the same time, it was decided that it would be
appropriate to clamp down on people who were not qualified medically from
claiming to have potions and pills and other remedies that would cure people
of venereal diseases. The
Venereal Disease Act 1917 was passed, therefore, to enable the provision of
the network of venereal disease clinics and to prevent people who were not
suitably qualified from involvement in the treatment of venereal diseases.
Although the legislation was passed a long time ago, it remains on the
Statute Book and is still in force. This
legislation creates an absolute prohibition on the giving of advice or the
offering of any kind of remedy for the venereal diseases referred to in the
Act by persons other than suitably qualified medical practitioner. Healers
such as Reiki healers may not under any circumstance suggest that they can do
anything to treat the diseases covered by the Act or to give any guidance on
the treatment of these diseases. If they do so, they will be committing an
offence and will be liable to prosecution. Reproduction of the legislation Venereal Disease Act, 1917 CHAPTER 21 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. 24th
May 1917 Be it enacted by the King’s most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this Partliament assembled and by the authority of the same,
as follows: 1. – (1) In any area in which this section
is still 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, or, in 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, or, in Scotland and Ireland, the Local Government Board for
Scotland and Ireland respectively, and is already in operation. 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 therefore, or offer to give or give any advice in connection with the
treatment thereof. (2)
On and after the first day of November nineteen hundred and seventeen a
person shall not hold out or recommend to the public by any notice or
advertisement, or by any written or printed papers or handbills, or by any
label or words written or printed, affixed to or delivered with, any packet,
box, bottle, phial, or other inclosure containing
the same, any pills, capsules, powders, lozenges, tinctures, potions,
cordials, electuaries, plaisters, unguents, salves,
ointments, drops, lotions, oils, spirits, medicated herbs and waters,
chemical and official preparations whatsoever, to be used or applied
externally or internally as medicines or medicaments for the prevention,
cure, or relief of any venereal disease: Provided that nothing in this section
shall apply to any advertisement, notification, notification, announcement,
recommendation, or holding out made or published by any local or public
authority or made or published with the sanction of the Local Government
Board, or, in Scotland and Ireland the Local Government Board for Scotland
and Ireland respectively, or to any publication sent only to duly qualified
medical practitioners or to wholesale or retail chemists for the purposes of
their business. 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, with or without hard labour,
or on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to
imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a
term not exceeding six months. 4. In this Act, the expression ‘venereal
disease’ means syphilis, gonorrhoea, or soft
chancre. 5. This Act may be cited as the Venereal
Disease Act, 1917. Date of posting : 31st
January 2007 |
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