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authorise
(3.) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordi- Power of
nance contained the Governor-in-Council Governor-in- shall have power after consulting the Council to Medical Board to authorise any person certain per- who was practising medicine or surgery sons to in this Colony on or before the first day practise. of July, 1914, to practise medicine or surgery and to demand and recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice provided that no such person shall be entitled to sign any certificate required for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, unless he has been authorised thereto by the Governor. A list of the persons authorised by the Governor-in-Council under this sub-section shall be published in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd May."
4., Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by the insertion of the signs and figures “(1) " of section 9 before the word "No" in the first line thereof and by the of Ordinance addition thereto at the end thereof of the following
"Provided that medical certificates of the cause of death for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, if signed by any person authorised in that behalf by the Governor shall be as valid in all respects as if they were signed by a registered person.
(2.) A list of the persons authorised shall be pub- lished in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd May.
(3.) The Governor-in-Council shall have power to make regulations to be observed by persons so authorised and the Governor shall have power to withdraw his authorisation from any person who in his opinion has failed to observe any of the said regulations."
No. 1 of 1884.
5. Section 12 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby re- Repeal of pealed and the following section is substituted therefor:
section 12 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1884 and sub- stitution of new section therefor.
"12. Subject to the other provisions of this Ordi- Persons en-
nance, the following persons shall be entitled titled to to be registered :---
registration.
(a.) Any person who is duly registered according to law as a medical and surgical practitioner in any other part of His Majesty's Dominions and therein is entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery: Provided that such person's qualification is accepted by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom as admit- ting to registration by them.
(b.) Any person who holds any degree in medicine and surgery granted by the University of Hongkong.
(c.) Any person who holds a degree, diploma or licence in medicine and surgery of any medical school in Europe, the United States of America or the Empire of Japan, the degrees diplomas and licences of which are recognised as entitling to registration by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.
Provided always that such person shall prove to the satisfaction of the Medical Board that he is of good character."