. NMT03-T0244
Volume III · Page 244
| 3. The application can be rescinded. |
| Article 3 |
| Sterilization can also be proposed by —
1. A public health officer. 2. The superintendent of a hospital, sanatorium, asylum, or of a penitentiary for its inmates. |
| Article 4 |
| The application is to be made in writing and is to be submitted to the attention of a hereditary health court. The facts, upon which this application is based must be corroborated by a medical expert opinion or in some other way. The office [of the hereditary health court] must inform the public health office of this application. |
| Article 5 |
| The hereditary health court of the district where the person to be sterilized resides has jurisdiction over the decision. Article 6 1. The hereditary health court is to be affiliated with a local court. It is composed of a local court judge as president, a public health officer and another physician approved in the German Reich, with expert knowledge of matters pertaining to eugenics. A deputy is to be appointed for each member. |
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| Article 10 |
| 1. The higher hereditary health court is to be affiliated to a district court of appeal covering the same district. It consists of a member of the district court of appeal, a public health officer and another physician, approved in Germany, with expert knowledge of matters pertaining to eugenics. A deputy is to be appointed for each member. Article 6, paragraph 2 applies accordingly. |
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| 3. The decisions of the higher hereditary health courts are final. |
| Article 11 |
| 1. The operation necessary for the sterilization is to be performed only in a hospital and by a physician approved in Germany. He can perform this operation only after the decree for |
