288 THE HONGKONG GON"- GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 10TH APRIL, 1881.
Clondal Secretary to keep Register.
Copy of Register to be published fu the Gazette.
Alterations may be made in the
Register.
Registered
persons entitled to practise and to demand charges.
Unregistered persone
CATENE PECUTET
charges.
Interpretation of terms
fle fiente of unregistrer persou voll
The Medical Board.
Production of certain papers NECOS SATY
before regis
tration
3. The Colonial Secretary shall keep a Register of Me- dical and Surgical Practitioners qualified to practise medi- cine and surgery in this Colony.
The Register shall be, as nearly as may be, according to form in the schedule to this Ordinance.
4. A copy of the Register shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the Gazette of the 3rd day of May, 1884; and thereafter a copy of the Register, as it stands at any such time, shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the first Gazette issued after every succeeding 3rd day of May.
Any copy of the Gazette coutaining the most recent copy of the Register shall be primâ facic evidence in all legal proceedings that the persons therein specified are registered under this Ordinance; and the absence of the name of any person from such copy shall be primâ facie evidence that such person is not registered under this Ordinance.
5. The Colonial Secretary shall keep the Register cor- reet in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, and make from time to time the necessary alterations in the addresses or qualifications of the persons registered under this Ordinance, and cancel in the Register the names of all persons registered under this Ordinance who have die or ceased to be qualified.
The Colonial Secretary may write a letter to any regis- tered person addressed to him according to his address in the Register to inquire whether he has changed his residence, and if he does not receive an answer to such letter within six months after the sending thereof, he may cancel in the Register the name of such person.
6. Every person registered under this Ordinance or entitled to the benefit of section 20 of this Ordinance, shall be entitled to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony, and to demand and recover reasonable charges for medical or surgical aid rendered by such person, and the costs of medicines or surgical appliances supplied by him.
7. No person shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge for any practice of medicine or surgery after the 3rd day of May, 1884, by any person not either registered under this Ordinance or entitled to the benefit of section 20 of this Ordinance.
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8. The words "legally qualified Medical Practitioner," or "duly qualified Medical Practitioner," or any words importing a person recognised at law as a Practitioner in medicine or surgery, or as any kind of a member of the medical profes- sion, where used in any Ordinance, shall be construed to mean a Practitioner registered under this Ordinance.
9. No certificate signed after the 3rd day of May, 1884, which certificate is, by any Act or Ordinance, required to be signed by a physician, a surgeon, an apothecary, or any other Medical or Surgical Practitioner, shall be valid unless the person signing it be registered under this Ordinance.
10. A Board to be styled the Medical Board shall be established under this Ordinance and shall consist of the Senior Military and Naval Medical Officers for the time being in the Colony, and any two registered Modical Practitioners and any three other fit persons willing to accept the appointment who may be from time to time thereto appointed by the Governor. Members appointed by the Governor shal hold office for 3 years and no longer unless re-appointed by the Governor and may be removed by the Governor at pleasure. Three members of the Board shall form a quorum.
The Board shall consider and report upon all matters laid before it under sections 13 or 14 of this Ordinance as therein provided.
11. Any person claiming to be entitled under the Acts of the United Kingdom 21 and 22 Victoria, Chapter 90, and 31 and 32 Victoria, Chapter 29, to be registered in Hong- kong under this Ordinance, shall be so registered upon producing to the Colonial Secretary, in proof of his title thereto, a declaration, according to the form B in the Schedule to this Ordinance, male by him before any Justico of the Peare, and impressed with a stamp for duty, by way of registration fee, of gã : Provided that the name of such person appears in "The Medical Register" then most recently published under the Act of the United Kingdom, 21 and 22 Victoria, Chapter 90, or he produces to the Colonial Secretary a certified copy of the entry of his name in the General Register or in any brauch Register of the United Kingdom, signed by the Registrar of the General Medical Council or of any Branch Council of the United Kingdom.