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8. Whenever a right of appeal from any decision of Appeal. the Board lies to the Governor in Council under this Ordinance, such appeal shall be by means of a written petition and such petition, unless otherwise provided, Shall be presented within fourteen days of the date of service of the decision of the Board on the person concerned. With such petition the Governor may consider any written reply of the Board to such peti- tion. The decision of the Governor in Council on such petition shall be final.
9.-(1) Every person who-
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(a) not being a person duly registered under this assumption
Ordinance, at any time after the expiration of date of of three months from the date on which the registered Governor in Council gives public notice that falsification a register of nurses has been compiled under of register. this Ordinance, uses the title of registered 9 & 10 nurse or its equivalent in any other language, Geo. 5, c. 94, either alone or in combination with any other words or letters, or uses any name, title, addition, description, uniform, or badge, implying that he or she is registered under this Ordinance or is recognised by law as a registered nurse, or uses any title, uniform or badge prescribed for the use of nursos registered under this Ordinance; or
(b) being a person whose name is included in any part of the register, at any time after the expiration of the period aforesaid uses any name, title, addition, description, uniform or badge, or otherwise does any aer of any kind, implying that his or her name is included in some other part of the register in which it is not included ; or
(e) at any time with intent to deceive makes nse of any certificate of registration as a marse issued under this Ordinance to him or her or to any other person
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
(2) Every person who wilfully makes, or causes to be made, any falsification in any matter relating to the register, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to impri- sonment for any form not exceeding six months.
Übjects and Reasons.
The object of the bill is to provide for the registra- tion of nurses,
By this means the public will be safeguarded by knowing that the nurses registered under the proposed Ordinance have been properly trained and examined, and are competent to take charge of their patients. It will also enable persons requiring nurses, both the medical profession and private individuals, to inspect the register and select nurses trained in the particular work which they are desired to undertake.
The bill follows the English Act, The Nurses Regis- tration Act, 1919, with this difference that a Board is substituted for the General Nursing Council, and regulations by the Governor in Council are substituted For rules made by the General Nursing Conneil. This latter course is taken in conformity with the usual practice in the Colony,