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registered, to the address furnished to the Medical Board.
Notices are to be sent by registered post and are deemed to
have been served as soon as they are posted.
16.
Section 9 of this Ordinance increases the maximum penalty
for an offence under section 17 of the principal Ordinance to
$1,000 and six months imprisonment.
the principal Ordinance is $100.
The maximum penalty 11
This seems much too small
for such an offence as wilfully and falsely using a title im-
-plying a qualification to practise medicine or surgery.
17.
The new section 18 which is inserted in the principal
Ordinance by section 10 of this Ordinance deals solely with
the question of appeal to the Governor in Council, the powers
of the Medical Board being dealt with in the new section 14
referred to above. The new section 18 contains the following
new provisions :-
(a) The appeal is to be by written petition.
(b) The petition must be presented within fourteen days
from the date of the service of the notice of the
decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned
(c) With the petition the Governor in Council may con-
-sider any written reply of the Medical Board to the
petition.
It will be seen that the section contemplates that the
appeal shall be decided on the written documents, and that
no provision is made for the appearance of the appellant
before the Governor in Council. Speaking generally, the
Governor in Council is probably not a very convenient tribunal
for bearing appeals crally. With regard to sub-paragraph
(c) above, no doubt the Governor in Council would in a proper
case give the appellant an opportunity of answering in writing
the reply of the Medical Board, e.g., if the reply of the
Medical Board disclosed new matter which was not disclosed at the inquiry.