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Objects and Reasons.
1. This Ordinance consolidates and amends the Medical Registration Ordinances and Regulations.
2. A Table of Correspondence showing the source of each provision and the extent to which it has been varied is added.
3. The principal change is the division of the register into two parts. Part I will include those who have hitherto been entitled to registration under section 12 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1884 as well as the professors of Medicine of the University of Hongkong, who under section 19 of that Ordinance (as amended by No. 20 of 1927, s. 11) were not required to register but were "deemed to be" registered. Part II will include persons authorised by the Governor to sign medical certificates whose names were published annually in a list in the Gazette under section 9 (2) of Ordinance No. 1 of 1884.
4. One effect of the above change in the register will be to make the persons in Part II of the register "medical practitioners" and as such liable to take out and pay the fees for annual certificates to practise under section 21 (1) of the Stamp Ordiannce, No. 8 of 1921. Persons whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, professors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hongkong, and persons exempted by the Governor in Council on the ground that their whole time is at the disposal of some charitable institution, do not have to take out such certificates to practise as they are exempted under section 21 (3) of Ordinance No. 8 of 1921, as amended by No. 26 of 1929 and this new Ordinance does not affect that exemption.
5. Another effect of requiring registration in the case of practitioners, who were not required to register under Ordinance No. 1 of 1884, is that it is made clear that these persons are brought under the jurisdiction of the Medical Board, which after due inquiry, in cases of conviction or infamous conduct in any professional respect, may censure a registered practitioner or direct that his name be struck off the register.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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July, 1935.