{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/venereal-disease-act-1917-repealed-19111998/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/venereal-disease-act-1917-repealed-19111998/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/7-8/21",
  "legislation_title": "Venereal Disease Act 1917 (repealed 19.11.1998)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/venereal-disease-act-1917-repealed-19111998",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Restriction on advertisements, &c.",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not by any advertisement or any public notice or announcement treat or offer to treat any person for venereal disease, or prescribe or offer to prescribe any remedy therefor, or offer to give or give any advice in connection with the treatment thereof.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nProvided that nothing in this section shall apply to any advertisement, notification or announcement made or published by any local or public authority or made or published with the sanction of the Local Government Board, or in Scotland and Ireland the Local Government Board for Scotland and Ireland respectively, or to any publication sent only to duly qualified medical practitioners or to wholesale or retail chemists for the purposes of their business.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42) and Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67), Sch. 5 para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/7-8/21/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:00.965103+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}