Parliament during this year.
Interested persons are invited to submit any substantiated comments or representations on the Sterilisation Amendment Bill, 2003 to the Director-General of Healthfor the attention ofthe Chief-Director: Maternal, Child and Women's month of the date of publicationof this notice.
To amend the Sterilisation Act, 1998, so as to substitute, a definition; to make provision for a medicalopinion in certaincircumstances; to provide for additional information to be considered when contemplating sterilisation; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
'sterilisation' means a surgical procedure performed for the purpose person is rendered permanently incapableof fertilisation or reproduction.
Amendment of section 2 of Act 44 of 1998 2.
by the substitution in subsection(3) for paragraph(a) of the following paragraph:,.
A Person contemplated in ParaQraph (a).m& be sten'lised -if-.
is familiar with the person to be sterilised, has provided a written opinion to the effect that sterilisation is in the best interestof that person.
Amendment of section 3 of Act 44 of 1998 3.
the likelihood that the person will become capable of consenting to sterilisation; and (vli) whether the sterilisation is in the best interests of the person to be starilised, concurs that steriiisation may be performed; and'I.
Amendment of section 4 of Act 44 of 1998 4. Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (c)of the following paragraph: "(c) understood and signed the prescribed consent form.".