Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1990 (NO 61 OF 1990)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Amendment) Act 1990.  
   2.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Venereal Diseases Act 1956.1  
   3.      The title of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Examination and Treatment of Persons suffering or suspected to be suffering from Venereal Diseases” and substituting “examination and treatment of persons suffering or suspected to be suffering from sexually transmitted diseases.”.  
   4.      Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “venereal disease” and substituting the following definition:“ ‘sexually transmitted disease' means gonorrhoea, syphilis, chancroid, donovanosis (granuloma inguinale) and lymphogranuloma venereum.”.  
   5.      The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting “venereal disease” (wherever occurring) and substituting “sexually transmitted disease”:  
   6.      Section 6B of the Principal Act is repealed.  
   7.      The Pharmacy Act 1931 is amended by omitting “venereal disease” from subsections 45 (1) and 46 (1) (wherever occurring) and substituting “sexually transmitted disease”.