Amendment
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6. The first paragraph of section 8 of the Midwives of Ordinance Ordinance, 1910, is repealed and the following two paragraphs
are substituted therefor :---
No. 22 of
1910, s. 8.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of
1910, s. 14.
Every certified woman, not already enrolled, who desires to practise or to be authorised to practise in the Colony shall, before holding herself out as a practising midwife or commencing to practise as a midwife, give notice in writing to the secretary applying for admission to the roll and shall pay an enrolment fee of five dollars.
Every certified and enrolled woman who desires her name to be retained on the roll on its next annual publication shall give notice of such desire in writing to the secretary in the month of January and shall pay a retention fee of one dollar.
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7. Section 14 of the Midwives Ordinance, 1910, is amended by the insertion of the words "and enrolled" after the word "certified" in paragraph (b).
Objects and Reasons.
1. Qualified nurses desiring to be or to remain registered under the Nurses Registration Ordinance, No. 1 of 1931, are required, by Regulations 5 and 6 of the Regulations made under that Ordinance and published by Government Notification No. 321 in the Gazette of the 22nd May, 1931, to pay an admission fee of ten dollars and an annual retention fee of two dollars.
2. The Midwives Board has recommended that similar fees, but of half the amount, should be charged in the case of practising midwives.
3. It is considered that this recommendation necessitates the various amendments in the Midwives Ordinance which are made by this Bill.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
October, 1936.
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