1822
No. 22 of 1910.
Ordinance
MIDWIVES.
(4) No certified woman shall employ an uncertified woman as a substitute.
(5) The certificate under this Ordinance shall not confer on any woman any right or title to be registered under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or to assume any name, title, or designation implying that she is by law recognised as a medical practitioner, or that she is authorised to grant any medical certificate or any certificate of death or still-birth or to undertake the charge of cases of abnormality or disease in connexion with parturition.
Certification of midwives holding certain certificates. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 2.
Constitution of Midwives Board. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 3.
Duties of Midwives Board.
3. Any person who claims to be certified shall be so certified provided she produces a certificate in midwifery from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, or from the Obstetrical Society of London, or the Coombe Lying-in Hospital and Guinness's Dispensary, or the Rotunda Hospital for the Relief of the Poor Lying-in Women of Dublin, or such other certificate as may be approved by the Midwives Board.
4.--(1) There shall be established a Midwives Board (hereinafter called the Board), consisting of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, the Superintendent of the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital, and the lady doctor attached to the same; and three persons to be nominated for a term of three years by the Governor.
Any vacancy occurring by resignation or death shall be filled up, in the case of nominated members, by the Governor. Nominated members shall on the termination of the period for which they have been appointed, be eligible for re-appointment for a like period.
(2) The duties and powers of the Board shall be as follows:--
(a) To make regulations, subject to the approval of the Governor,-
(i) regulating their own proceedings:
(ii) regulating the issue of certificates and the conditions of admission to the roll of midwives:
(iii) regulating the course of training and the conduct of examinations:
(iv) regulating the admission to the roll of women already in practice as midwives at the passing of this Ordinance: