Voluntary sterilisation Act, 193- : [draft] / Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation.

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[Between 1930 and 1939]
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Credit: Voluntary sterilisation Act, 193- : [draft] / Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONFIDENTIAL. FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. Voluntary Sterilisation Act, 193 (NOTE: This Bill was drafted by a special sub-committee appointed for the purpose by the Joint Committee on Voluntary Sterilisation. It has been carefully considered and revised by the Joint Committee itself, and is now issued to the various organisations represented on the Committee. Whilst this draft embodies the recommendations and safeguards laid down by the Departmental Report on Sterilisation, it should be understood that the actual phraseology will be submitted finally to a parliamentary draftsman for revision. Meanwhile, it must be treated as a confidential document for the consideration only of the Councils concerned. The Joint Committee is glad to report that at a meeting recently of representatives appointed by the County Councils Association, the Asso- ciation of Municipal Corporations and the Mental Hospitals Association, to confer generally upon the subject of voluntary sterilisation, this draft was considered. It was resolved that the Councils of these three Associations should be asked to approve this Bill, subject to certain amendments, which are printed on page 16 of this document. These amendments should be considered by the Councils of the various Associations, represented on the Joint Committee, when they discuss the Bill itself.) ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS, Section 1. Classes of persons who may be sterilised. 2. Conditions to be satisfied before sterilisation is applied. 3. Duties and powers of the Minister of Health. 4 Persons by whom and places where sterilisation is not to be applied. Notice of performance of operations. Confidential nature of documents, 5 6 7. Provision as to expenses. 8. Protection of medical practitioners. 9 Penalties for offences. 10. Definitions. 11. Short: title and extent. SCHEDULES,