Medical Registration.
CHAPTER 161.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION.
[CAP. 161
To consolidate and amend the law regulating the registra-tion of practitioners in medicine and surgery.
41 of 1935.
1 of 1940.
5 of 1941.
12 of 1949.
[4th October, 1935.]
22 of 1950.
37 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Registration Ordinance.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance-
"person registered", or words to the like effect, shall be deemed to refer to a person registered under this Ordinance;
"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.
Interpretation.
3. (1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the right of any person of Chinese race, not being a person taking or using any name, title, addition or description calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods, to practise medicine or surgery according to purely Chinese methods and to demand and recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice.
(2) For the purposes of this section-
(a) the taking or using in Chinese by any person of the name, title, addition or description of 中醫 or 中醫生 or 中醫師 or 唐醫 or 國醫 or of any words or characters implying specialization when preceded by the aforementioned characters shall not be deemed to be the taking or using of a name, title, addition or description calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods: Provided that in any English translation of such characters the word "Herbalist" must be included;
12 of 1949, s. 2.
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