1980 Ed.]
Supplementary Medical Professions
[CAP. 359
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CHAPTER 359
SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS
Originally 70/89
42 of 1980.
To provide for registration, discipline and the better control of persons engaged in occupations and professions supplementary to medicine.
[1 October 1980.]
L.N. 274/80.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance.
(2) This Ordinance shall apply to any profession included in the Schedule with effect from such date as the Governor may appoint by order in the Gazette and any such order may fix different dates for different provisions of this Ordinance.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"board" means any board established under section 5;
"certificate of registration" means a certificate of registration or a duplicate certificate of registration issued under section 14 and a certificate of provisional registration issued under section 15;
"Council" means the Supplementary Medical Professions Council established under section 3;
"practising certificate" means a certificate issued under section 16;
"profession" means any profession specified in the second column in the Schedule;
"registered" means entered in a register in accordance with sections 13 and 15 or restored to the register in accordance with section 10;
"registered address" means the address appearing upon the certificate of registration issued under section 14.
(2) A profession specified in the second column in the Schedule shall mean the occupation of persons of the description specified opposite thereto in the third column.
(3) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person shall be deemed to practise a profession, who, for gain or otherwise, represents himself, whether directly or by implication from his conduct, as practising or being prepared or entitled to practise that profession.
*A reference to the Schedule.
Interpretation.
Schedule.