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A.D. 1879. qualifications for registration under the Medical Act, 1858, and have been so maintained out of fees paid by applicants for such qualifications, and may be of such importance to the promotion of knowledge in medicine or surgery as to deserve to be maintained out of fees payable for examinations for qualifying certificates, and 5 shall also provide for applying the surplus, if any, towards the public purposes
of any
medical corporation of the said part of the United Kingdom in connection with the examinations.
Majority of
medical authorities to act.
Power of medical authorities
to constitute
medical diplomas.
Power of ruedical authorities to grant diplomas to both sexes. See 39 & 40 Vict, c. 41.
An annual account of the receipts and expenditure in respect of such fees shall be submitted to the Privy Council at the time and 10 in the form required by them, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
Medical Authorities.
20. Any power given by this Act to, and anything authorised or required by this Act to be done by, the medical authorities of 15 any one part of the United Kingdom may, in the case of England and Scotland, be exercised and done by not less than five, and in the case of Ireland by not less than four of such medical authorities.
21. A medical authority, without prejudice to any other power vested in them, may from time to time, by a statute or byelaw 20 inade with the approval of the Privy Council, constitute a now medical diploma to be granted by them for the purpose of attaching to such authority, with a view to registration, persons who have obtained qualifying certificates under this Act, but if any such new medical diploma is constituted by a medical authority for the said 25 purpose, that diploma shall be the only diplóma granted by such authority for the purpose of attaching to such authority with a view to registration persons who have obtained qualifying certifi- cates under this Act.
22. The power of a medical authority under this Act or otherwise 30 to grant a medical diploma shall extend to the granting of that diploma to persons of both sexes, provided that—
(1.) This enactment shall not render compulsory the exercise of that power when existing otherwise than under this Act; and
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be entitled to any share in the government management A.D. 1879. or proceedings of that authority.
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23. Nothing in any Act or in any charter statute or byelaw Power to
medical shall prevent a medical authority from carrying into effect a
authority to 5 scheme for a medical board or other scheme under this Act, or act notwith- otherwise from carrying into effect this Act, but such medical standing Act,
churter, &e. authority, without prejudice to any other power of repealing or altering, may, by a statute or byelaw made with the approval of the Privy Council, modify any provision of any Act, charter statute
10 or byelaw to any extent that may seem necessary for adapting the same to such scheme or this Act, or for the purpose of carrying into effect the scheme or this Act, and the statute or byelaw when so approved, shall have effect as if it were enacted in this Act.
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(2.) A woman who receives a medical diploma from a medical authority who at the commencement of this Act have not any obligation to grant a medical diploma to any woman, shall not, in respect of that diploma, except so far as the medical authority otherwise in their discretion provide, 40
Unregistered Persons.
24. If a person who is not for the time being registered in the Penalty for medical register- (1.) takes or uses--
to
unautho-
rised assump-
tion of titles,
&c. by w
registered
(a.) The designation of any medical diploma which entitles
person to be so registered, or attaches a person a medical
persong practising authority for the purpose of registration (including any in or recognised medical diploma granted in a British possession surgery or
gain. or foreign country); or
(b.) The designation of licentiate in or professor of medicine and surgery or medicine or surgery or a branch of medicine or surgery; or
(c) Any designation or description used to distinguish registered practitioners of medicine or surgery or of a branch of medi- cine or surgery; or
(d) Any designation or description implying that he has obtained a qualifying certificate under this Act, or is registered or entitled to be registered in the medical register; or (e.) Any combination of the designations or descriptions in this
section mentioned; or
(2.) where he practises for gain or professes to practise or pub- lishes his name as practising medicine or surgery, or a branch of medicine or surgery, or is engaged for gain in or professes to be engaged in or publishes his name as being engaged in the cure or treatment of diseases or injuries,--
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