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Enclosure 3.
Hon. Colonia) Secretary,
I do not know when or on what authority German practitioners were struck off the register. I doubt very
much if there was any power to strike them off. I am not
aware that either enemy nationality or enemy status would supply a good ground. It is true that the power to recognis foreign qualifications not recognised by the General Medical Council was taken away by Ordinance No.31 of 1914, but
section 3(3) gave the Governor in Council power to authorise any person who was practising in the Colony on or before
1st July, 1914, and more important still, s.20 provides thei
all persons on the register at the commencement of Ordinance
To.33 of 1914 are to be deemed duly registered, I imagine
that the German practitioners were still on the register
at that date.
2. As there have been no Germen practitioners here
be for over 8 years I think that it would,a great pity if we
were to re-admit them and thus perpetuste, even in the case
of a few individuals, the old practice of recognising
foreign qualifications not recognised by the General
Medical Council. I am irelined to think that we should take express powers which would enable us to keep them out. This might be done by giving the Governor in Council power
to remove from the register any persons not qualified under
section 12.
(Sd.)
22nd November, 1922.
J. H. Kemp,
Attorney Genere).
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