Nurses Registration.
CHAPTER 164.
NURSES REGISTRATION.
To provide for the registration of nurses for the sick.
[6th February, 1931.]
[CAP. 164
Originally
1 of 1931. Fraser
1 of 1931.
22 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Nurses Short title. Registration Ordinance.
2.
(1) For the purposes of this Ordinance there shall Establish- be established a Nursing Board for the Colony of Hong constitution Kong (in this Ordinance referred to as the board).
(2) The board shall be constituted in accordance with the provisions contained in the regulations made under this Ordinance.
3. (1) It shall be the duty of the board to form and keep a register of nurses for the sick (in this Ordinance referred to as the register) subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, and the names of all persons included in the register shall be published annually in the Gazette.
of a Nursing Board
9 & 10 Geo. 5, с 94, s. 1.
Register of
nurses.
9 & 10 Geo. 5,
c. 94, s. 2.
s. 2(1), (2).]
(2) The register shall consist of the following parts---
(a) a general part containing the names of all nurses who satisfy the conditions of admission to that part of the register;
(b) a supplementary part containing the names of male nurses;
(c) a supplementary part containing the names of nurses trained in the nursing and care of persons suffering from mental diseases;
(d) a supplementary part containing the names of nurses trained in the nursing of sick children;
(e) any other prescribed part.
Where any person satisfies the conditions of admission to any supplementary or prescribed part of the register, his or her name may be included in that part of the register notwithstanding that it is also included in the general part.
(3) In any proceedings, a copy of the Gazette containing the most recent list of names on the register shall be prima facie evidence, and a certificate under the hand of
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