MEDICAL REGISTRATION.
No. 1 of 1884.
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(2) The Colonial Secretary may send a letter to any registered 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 within six months he may cancel the name of such person.
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7. Every person registered shall be entitled to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony, and to demand and recover reasonable charges for medical or surgical aid rendered and the cost of medicines or surgical appliances supplied by him.
8. Subject to the provisions of section 3, no person shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge for any practice of medicine or surgery by any person not registered.
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9.(1) No certificate which is, by any Act of Parliament 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 is registered: 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 published in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd day of 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. 7 of 1896.
10.—(1) A board, to be styled the Medical Board, shall be established, and shall consist of the Principal Civil Medical Officer and the Senior Naval and Military Medical Officers for the time being in the Colony, and two registered medical practitioners and three other fit persons willing to serve who may be appointed by the Governor.
But see No. 8 of 1921, s. 21.
† As amended by No. 31 of 1914.
As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.