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Constitution of Midwives Board.
Midwives.
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.[2]
4. (1) There shall be established a Midwives Board, hereinafter called the Board, which shall consist of the Director of Medical and Health Services, the Principal Matron of Government Hospitals and eight other persons,
2 Edw. 7 c. 17, s. 3. 9 of 1950, Schedule. 17 of 1941, s. 2.
Duties of Midwives Board. 17 of 1941, s. 3. 17 of 1941, s. 3.
two of whom shall be certified and enrolled midwives under this Ordinance, appointed by the Governor. The Director of Medical and Health Services shall be the chairman of the Board. Each of the appointed members shall hold office for such term, or subject to such conditions, as the Governor may prescribe: Provided that the Governor may at any time cancel any appointment.
(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 its own proceedings;
(ii) regulating the issue of certificates and the conditions of admission to the roll of midwives;
(iii) regulating the course of training (including such training after enrolment, at such intervals and for such periods as the Board may prescribe) and the conduct of examinations;
(iv) regulating, supervising and restricting within due limits the practice of midwives;
(v) deciding the conditions under which midwives may be suspended from practice;
(vi) defining the particulars required to be given in any notice under section 8;
(b) to appoint examiners;
(c) to decide upon the places where and the times when examinations shall be held;
(d) to publish annually a roll of certified midwives;
(e) to decide upon the removal from the roll of the name of any midwife for disobeying the regulations or for other misconduct, or of any midwife who, in the unanimous opinion of the Board is inefficient, by reason of her refusal or neglect to attend and complete to the satisfaction of the Board.
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is so