55 Proceedings to be in camera, and reports not to be published Inquiries and proceedings before a district administrator or any court of law under this Part shall be secret and conducted in camera, and the records thereof shall be kept in the manner and form prescribed, anything to the contrary notwithstanding in any other law. Any person publishing or divulging the name of any person dealt with under this Part or the nature of the charge or evidence or the results of such inquiries or proceedings or the contents of any report, certificate, document or order in connection therewith or any other matter coming to his knowledge in connection with anything arising under this Part to any unauthorized person, and any person who, without lawful justification or excuse, falsely alleges that any person is infected or has been infected with a sexually transmitted venereal disease, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Section amended by section 12 of Act 12 of 1997 and by section 4 of Act No 22 of 2001] 56 Publication of advertisements of cures (1) No person shall publish any advertisement or statement intended to promote the sale of any medicine, appliance or article for the alleviation or cure of any sexually transmitted disease or disease affecting the generative organs or functions, or of sexual impotence, or of any complaint or infirmity arising from or relating to sexual intercourse. (2) Any person who publishes any such advertisement or statement by printing it in any newspaper or exhibiting it to public view in any place or delivering or offering or exhibiting it to any person in any street or public place or in any public conveyance, or who sells, offers or shows it or sends it by post to any person, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. For the purposes of this section, “advertisement” or “statement” includes any paper, document or book containing any such advertis ement or statement. [Section amended by section 12 of Act 12 of 1997 and by section 4 of Act No. 22 of 2001] (3) This section shall not apply to publications by the Ministry or by any local authority, public hospital or other public body in the discharge of its lawful duties, or by any society or person acting with the authority of the Minister first obtained, or to any books, documents or papers published in good faith for the advancement of medical science. [Section amended by section 12 of Act 12 of 1997] 57 Contributions and facilities for diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted disease The Minister, subject to regulations which he is hereby authorized to make, and which may deal with the procedure to be followed, the conditions to be complied with and any other matters necessary for the proper carrying out of this section, may— (a) provide in Government or other laboratories for the carrying out of bacteriological or other laboratory examinations for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person is infected with or is cured of any sexually transmitted disease, or is free from any such disease in a communicable form. Such examinations shall be free of charge; (b) make provision for the free treatment and, where necessary, the accommodation and maintenance of persons infected with sexually transmitted disease. Such provision shall be made as far as practicable in connection with general or isolation hospitals or similar institutions by arrangement with the Minister or the hospital, local or other authority concerned; (c) supply, free of charge, such remedies as may be specified from time to time in the Gazette for use in the treatment of persons infected with sexually transmitted disease who are treated as free patients at any public institution; (d) refund to any local authority, or to two or more local authorities acting jointly, two-thirds of the net cost of any approved scheme for providing treatment, including maintenance and accommodation, where necessary, for persons who are infected with sexually transmitted disease; (e) establish and maintain special accommodation for the maintenance and treatment of persons infected with sexually transmitted disease who are liable to detention; (f) make grants-in-aid, subject to such conditions as the Minister may in each case fix and determine, to local authorities or other public bodies or voluntary societies or associations for the purpose of preventing the spread of or securing the proper treatment of persons infected with sexually transmitted disease. [Section amended by section 12 of Act 12 of 1997] 58 Regulations (1) The Minister may make regulations— (a) prescribing forms of certificates, notices, orders or returns and books of record to be used in connection with sexually transmitted disease, and defining the information to be furnished therein, and requiring the furnishing and prescribing the manner of use thereof by district administrators and district officers, Government medical officers, local authorities, medical officers of health and others;