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Saving of rights of Chinese persons who practise according to Chinese methods.
Right of licentiates of the Hongkong College of Medicine.
No. 1 of 1884: MEDICAL REGISTRATION.
(a) "Person registered" or words to the like effect, shall be deemed to refer to a person registered under this Ordinance.
(b) "Practise" includes the diagnosis of any form or forms of disease whether the cases diagnosed be treated medically or surgically or not, provided that laboratory assistants who work for or under a registered practitioner shall not by reason only of such laboratory work be deemed to practise medicine or surgery.
3.-(1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the right of any Chinese person to practise medicine or surgery according to purely Chinese methods and to demand and recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice: Provided that such person does not take or use any name, title or addition calculated to induce any one to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained every present and every future licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine shall be entitled to practise medicine and surgery and to demand and recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice: Provided that no such licentiate shall be entitled to sign any certificate required for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, No. 7 of 1896, unless he has been authorised thereto by the Governor.
[(3), rep. No. 2 of 1923.]
Ordinance Register of
4. The Colonial Secretary shall keep a register of medical practitioners and surgical practitioners qualified to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony, as nearly as may be according to Form No. 1 in the Schedule.
Schedule:
› Form No. 1.
Publication of copy of register.
Making alterations in register.
5. A copy of the register as it then stands shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd day of May. The absence of the name of any person therefrom shall be primâ facie evidence that such person is not registered.
6. (1) The Colonial Secretary shall make the necessary alterations in the addresses or qualifications of the persons registered, and cancel in the register the names of all persons registered who have died or ceased to be qualified.
*As amended by No. 31 of 1914, and No. 2 of 1923.