Amyas Act, 1759

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ACT OF THE IMPERIAL DIET

 

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AMYAS ACT, 1759

10 Sun’s Smile

Introduced in the Senate

Passed through the Imperial Senate session of 1758-1760.

 

AYE

Basrid

Christiansen

Drumm
Elwitt
May

Rutledge

Stafyr

Vladov

 

 

This Amyas Medical Provision Act shall provide the means of instituting and promoting a system of medicines, hospitals, and clinics.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

This legislation shall strengthen the Medical Validation Act of 1738 by introducing additional measures to establish medical facilities, encourage the practice of doctors, and facilitate in the creation of tax exemptions to make the supply of medicines accessible to the Orenian people.

 

SECTION I:

On establishing a support for all medical affairs in the Holy Orenian Empire

 

1.  Those doctors recently licensed by the Practitioner-General of the Holy Orenian Empire shall receive a singular stipend of four hundred marks to assist in the establishment of their practice.
2. Those doctors who enlist or elect to use their medical practice within the several standing levies shall receive an additional singular stipend of two hundred marks.
3. All medical shops in the Holy Orenian Empire shall be exempt from stall and property tax collection. 
4. All clinics and hospitals shall be exempt from property tax collection.
5. Hospitals and clinics shall be given a reserve budget of five hundred marks per annum to support expenditures in beds, medicines, staff, and supplies. The reserve budget shall reset every year to the five hundred marks as appropriated.

 

SECTION II:

On establishing the regulation of hospitals and clinics

 

1.  Hospitals and clinics must have at least one licensed doctor assigned to the facility. 
2. The names of the doctors on-site, nurses, and other support staff must be clearly listed and visible near the entrance of the facility.
3. Hospitals and clinics are mandated to accept appointments and must maintain a log of appointments within the last five years. 
4. All hospitals and clinics are subject to inspection by the Imperial Practitioner-General no less than a routine tour of every four years. 
5. The medical system of the Empire shall maintain an emergency stockpile of medical supplies at all times so that humanity might remain prepared for the outbreak of a natural disaster or a pandemic.
6. The specified stockpile is to be kept under lock and key in the Imperial capital of Helena at all times. The contents of this stockpile may only be released at the behest of the Practitioner-General.
7.  Supplies from the emergency medical stockpile are to be distributed amongst the clinics and hospitals of the Empire upon the declaration of a national health emergency.

1. The contents of this stockpile should include: Protective masks, Rolls of bandages, Disinfectants, Quantities of Tippen’s Root, Blissfoil, and burn creams, suture kits, drugs, and other supplies that would serve to assist humanity in the event of an Imperial emergency.

 

SECTION III:

On protecting the innovation of medicines

 

1.  Those who produce new forms of medicines as approved by the Practitioner-General shall receive an Imperial patent to protect the intellectual property of their craft.
2. Violations of the patent and intently producing counterfeits of medicines shall be subjected to Class P, or property infringement, and punishable to the second degree. 

 

Introduced by Sir Terrence May GCM on 11 H.F. 1759

 

Cosponsored by Sir Konrad Stafyr KM

 

Issued and proclaimed,

HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, Peter III Anthony, Holy Orenian Emperor, King of Curon, Renatus, Salvus, and Seventis, King-Elect of Kaedrin, Prince of Malinor, Protector of the Heartlanders, Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera.

 

 

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