Act No 158 / 1949 Coll.
Law on Combating Sexual Diseases
Valid
Effective from 30.06.1949
158.
Law
of 16 June 1949
about fighting STDs.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
The sexual diseases under this law are the reception (syphilis), gonorrhoea (gonorrhoea), the soft ulcer (ulcus molle) and the Nicolas-Favreova disease (lymphogranuloma inguinale).
(1) The fight against sexual diseases is organised and managed by the health administration, which, in particular, takes care of the adequate and continuous education of all levels of the population on sexual diseases and on their treatment and faces all appropriate measures to spread them.
(2) The task of combating sexual illness in the district is carried out by the District National Committee through its National Health Institute (Section 3 of the Act of 19 March 1947, No. 49 Coll., on Advisory Health Care).
(3) The costs associated with the examination and outpatient or berth treatment of STDs at the State Institute of Medical and Nursing shall be borne by the State, unless the Central National Insurance Agency is required to do so under the relevant rules. Details are provided by the Ministry of Health in agreement with the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare by decree in the Official Journal.
(1) Those who consider that they have an STD, or who are suspected of having such a disease, are obliged to be examined in an institution of national health or with a physician authorised to practice medical practice.
(2) Those who have had an STD are obliged to treat a doctor in a hospital or a nursing home and to follow all his or her instructions as well as those of the National Health Institute.
(3) If they are persons who are incompetent, their legal representatives and those who take care of them shall be obliged to ensure that they fulfil the obligations imposed on them by this law.
The doctor is obliged
(a) to inform the patient of the disease, the patient of the disease, to be sent to him on written confirmation of the printed instructions provided by the doctors free of charge by the Institute of National Health, the pastoral enquiry of the patient after the source of the disease and the persons who may have been infected, to alert the patient to the criminality of the transmission of the disease, in case of warning before the marriage is concluded, to continue the treatment until the patient has been fully cured and to be persuaded before the release of the patient from the treatment with the necessary additional periodic examinations of his recovery;
(b) report to the Regional National Committee - the National Health Institute to any person found or deemed to be at risk of being ill or ill and any case where a sick person in his or her treatment has disobeyed his or her instructions; detailed provisions on the scope and manner of such reporting shall be issued by the Ministry of Health by a decree in the Official Journal.
(1) The District National Committee - National Health Institute - makes all appropriate measures to protect against STDs. In particular, according to the circumstances of the case, it shall require the patient to indicate the likely source of his disease and the persons he may have infected, to notify him of the change of residence and to undergo regular medical examinations after the end of treatment.
(2) If the sick way of life endangers the persons with whom he or she meets, or fails to take the instructions of the treating doctor or counselor, the district national committee shall order the treatment for a period which the treating doctor considers necessary due to the risk of the disease or the nature of the disease. The appeal from this decision of the District National Committee shall not have suspensory effect.
(1) In order to combat sexual illness effectively, the Ministry of Health may, on the one hand, order compulsory diagnostic examinations and compulsory medical examinations of all or its groups or populations of a particular district.
(2) Mass inspections of persons subject to national insurance are carried out by national health institutes in agreement with the Central National Insurance Company or its organisational units.
Persons involved in the implementation of this law and the rules issued pursuant to it shall remain silent about the facts relating to the sick or the illness of suspects. This is without prejudice to the reporting obligation set out in Section 4. The official documents to be taken in the implementation of this Act shall be confidential if they contain information on the disease.
(1) Anyone who intentionally infects someone else's STD will be punished by a court under the provisions of criminal laws on severe damage to the body.
(2) Anyone who negligently infects someone else with an STD will be punished, if not for a more severe criminal offence, for an offence of one month to one year.
(1) Anyone who intentionally puts someone else in danger of being infected with STDs will be punished for the offence by a stiff prison from three months to three years.
(2) Anyone who negligently puts someone else in danger of being infected with STDs will be punished by a prison sentence of eight days to six months.
(1) An action and omission contrary to the provisions of this law or to the rules issued pursuant to it shall be punishable by the district national committee, unless it is punishable by a criminal offence pursuant to § 8 or 9, or otherwise more strictly by a penalty of up to 50 000 CZK or by a sentence of three months or both.
(2) Where a fine has been imposed pursuant to paragraph 1, the district national committee shall, in the event of its imperfections, impose a replacement sentence at liberty within three months according to the rate of the blame. If both penalties are imposed at the same time, the punishment on the free side, together with the replacement penalty, must not be more than three months for an impenetrable fine.
Measures under this Act in the field of military administration are taken by military authorities for the cooperation of state health authorities under directives issued by the Ministry of Health in agreement with the Ministry of National Defence.
The validity of the Act of 11 July 1922, No 241 Coll., on the control of STDs, with the exception of Sections 14, 2 and 15, 16, 20 and 21, and the rules issued pursuant thereto, shall be revoked if any of the provisions which contravene this Act is applicable.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication; It shall be implemented by the Minister for Health in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
Gottwald v. r.
Dr John v. r.
Zaporocký v. r.
Plojhar v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 158 / 1949 Coll., on Combating Sexual Diseases |
|---|---|
| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 30.06.1949 |
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| Effective from | 30.06.1949 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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