(b) Penicillin (and other Substances) (Amendment) Regulations,
1961, (G.N.A., 69/61).
(c) Nurses (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations,
1961, (G.N.A. 75/61).
(4) Nurses Rewards and Fines Fund-Legislative Council Resolu-
tion, 1961, (G.N.A. 77/61),
(e) Poisons (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations, 1960, (G.N.A.
78/61).
(A) Poisons List (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations, 1960, (G.NA.
79/61).
(g) Poisons (Amendment) Regulations, 1961, (G.N.A. 80/61). (h) Poisons List (Amendment) Regulations, 1961, (G.N.A. 81/61).
Poisons (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1961, (G.N.A. 82/61).
( Quarantine and Prevention of Disease (Scale of Charges)
(Amendment) Regulations, 1961, (G.N.A, 101/61).
(k) Midwives (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) (Amend-
ment) Regulations, 1961, (G.N.A. 113/61).
(0) Prevention of the Spread of Infectious Disease (Amendment)
Regulations, 1961, (G.N.A. 133/61).
(m) Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of First Schedule) (No. 2) Order,
1961, (G.N.A. 141/61).
(n) Poisons (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations. 1961, (G.NA.
147/61).
(0) Poisons (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations. 1961, (G.NA.
148/61).
(p) Poisons List (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1961, (G.N.A.
149/61).
(q) Poisons List (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 1961, (G.NA.
150/61).
(r) Mental Health Regulations, 1962. (G.N.A. 3/62).
(8) Medical Practitioners (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure)
(Amendment) Regulations, 1962, (G.N.A. 20/62).
PROFESSIONAL REGISTERS
40. There are five statutory bodies dealing respectively with the registration of medical practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and midwives. The Hong Kong Medical Council has statutory powers governing the registration of medical practitioners and has duties in
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connexion with disciplinary proceedings and offences; it is not an examining body. The Dental Council, Pharmacy Board. Nursing Board and Midwives Board all maintain registers, regulate training, hold examinations leading to registration or enrolment and have disciplinary powers.
41. At the 31st March, 1962, the numbers of persons on the statutory registers were as follows:
Register of Medical Practitioners
Register of Dentists
Register of Pharmacista
Register of Nurses (Female)
Register of Nurses (Male)
Register of Midwives
WORK OF THE STATUTORY COUNCILS AND BOARDS
Medical Council
1,062
403
102
1.943
114 1.896
42. There were seven ordinary meetings of the Council and three meetings to inquire into disciplinary charges. The Council's Warning Notice to Medical Practitioners was revised during the year and a number of supplementary notices issued during the past 5 years were incorporated into the revised Notice which at the end of the year was in the hands of the printers.
43. The Preliminary Investigation Committee met five times to con- sider charges of advertising and two cases were referred to the Medical Council for inquiry. The first inquiry involved two meetings and resull- ed in the defendant being found guilty and reprimanded. The second inquiry is down for hearing in April, 1962.
44. During the year there were 130 applications accepted for full registration and 32 applications for provisional registration. There were 20 names erased from the Register as a result of death, departure from Hong Kong or failure to notify changes of address.
Dental Council
45. The Council met seven times during the year and the Preliminary Investigation Committee met twice to consider disciplinary charges. neither of which was referred to the Council for an inquiry.
46. There were seventeen applications for registration, of which eleven were accepted without examination. One applicant was required to sit the Council's examinations which he passed, being then registered. Five applications were rejected.
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