NOTIFICATION OF CANCER ACT

NOTIFICATION OF

CANCER

CHAPTER 154

NOTIFICATION OF CANCER ACT

To make provision for the notification of cancer.

(12th December, 1957) *

Enacted by ACT XXI of 1957.

This Act may be cited as the Notification of Cancer Act.

In this Act -

"cancer" means any kind of malignant growth or disease in man;

"medical practitioner" includes persons licensed under the

Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance to practise medicine,

surgery, obstetrics, kindred professions and dental surgery and

dentistry.

Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit

a patient shall forthwith, on becoming aware that the patient is

suffering from cancer in any form, send to the Superintendent of

Public Health a certificate stating the name, age, occupation and

address of the patient and the type of cancer from which, in his

opinion, the patient is suffering as well as the organ, tissue or site

which is affected by the disease.

Any person who shall be found guilty of an offence against

article 3 shall be liable to a fine (multa).

*See Government Notice No. 777 of the 16th December 1957.