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Every medical practitioner registered under the Madras Medical Registration Act, 1914 and included in a panel published by the Government for the purposes of this section shall be bound, at the instance of a person desirous of obtaining a certificate under this section and on payment of a fee of five rupees, to examine such person, and if he finds that [such person is not suffering] from a venereal disease, or has been cured thereof, to furnish to such person a certificate to that effect in the prescribed form. Substituted by Section 8 of the Madras Public Health (Amendment) Act, 1941 (Madras Act XIX of 1941) re-enacted permanently by Section 2(1) of, and the First Schedule to, the Madras Re-enacting Act, 1949 (Madras Act X of 1949), for the words "that such person is not suffering".