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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 105.-The following bill is published for general
information :-
C.S.O. 3152/26
A BILL
[No. 11-5.3.31.—1.]
Short title.
Amendment.
No. 1 of
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the Medical Registration
Ordinance, 1884.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Regis- tration Amendment Ordinance, 1931.
2. Section 10 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, of Ordinance 1884, as amended by section 2 of the Principal Civil Medical Officer (change of name) Ordinance, 1928, is amended by the addition of the following sub-sections:-
1884, s. 10. Ordinance No. 5 of 1928.
(4) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall be ex officio the chairman of the Medical Board; but, in the case of his absence from any meeting of the Board, the members of the Board present shall appoint any other of its members as chairman. The chairman shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
(5) The Board may make Standing Orders for regulating the procedure at, and in connection with, its meetings.
Objects and Reasons.
Section 2 of this Ordinance adds two sub-sections to section 10 of the principal Ordinance. The new sub-section (4) makes provision for a chairman of the Medical Board and gives him a deliberative and a casting vote on the lines of section 13 (2) of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903. The new sub-section (5) is on the lines of section 14 (1) of the latter Ordinance and enables the Board to make Standing Orders.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
March, 1932.