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from the date of service of the notice of the decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned. With such petition the Governor in Council may consider any written reply of the Medical Board to such petition. The decision of the Governor in Council upon such petition shall be final.
of Ordinance
11. Section 19 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Amendment 1884, is amended by the is sertion of the words "all pro- fessors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of No. 1 of 1884, Hong Kong" immediately after the words "civil medical officers" in the first line thereof.
8. 19.
12. Section 20 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Repeal of
Ordinance 1884, is repealed.
No. 1 of 1884, 8. 20.
Objects and Reasons,
1. The main objects of this Ordinance are as follows:-
(a) to deal with the powers and procedure of the
Medical Board;
(b) to deal with the appeal to the Governor in
Council;
(e) to transfer the medical register from the Colonial Secretary to the Principal Civil Medical Officer;
and
(d) to exempt the professors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong from the necessity for registration.
2. The chief criticisms of those provisions of the prin- cipal Ordinance which refer to the Medical Board and the Governor in Council are the following
(a) Sectious 14 and 18 seem inconsistent, because section 14 gives the Colonial Secretary power to strike off the register, if he thinks fit, while section 18 provides that all questions respecting the liability of any person to be struck off the register shall be decided by the Medical Board, subject only to an appeal to the Governor in Council.
(b) Section 14 provides no appeal from the striking off by the Colonial Secretary. The general in- tention of section 18 seems to be to give au appeal to the Governor in Council from a strik- ing off, but the appeal given by section 18 is only an appeal from the Medical Board, (e) It is doubtful whether there is any power to strike off an unqualified person who obtained registration by fraud, unless he has been con- victed of that offence, and the conviction may be impossible owing to his absence from the Colony.. (d) The Medical Board has no express power to
consure a practitioner.
(e) The Medical Board has no express power to publish the proceedings or the result of any inquiry held by it.
() There is no provision as to the limit of time for appeal to the Governor in Council or for the procedure on such appeal.
3. Sections 2, 3, 4 and 6 (1) of this Ordinance nake amendments necessary to effect the transfer of the medical register from the Colonial Secretary to the Principal Civil Medical Officer. Section 2 of this Ordinance also requires every registered practitioner to have an address in the Colony so that all notices from the Medical Board can be served on him at that address. This address will appear in the register.