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Fees.
Fee.
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part containing the names of nurses trained in the nursing and care of mental defectives. It shall contain the full names (in alphabetical order) and the addresses of all nurses duly registered under the Act, with the date of registration, the qualification in each case for admission to the Register, and the date of obtaining such qualifica- tion, and the hospital or hospitals in which such qualifying training has been received.
20. In respect of every application to be examined there shall be paid to the Council such fee as the Council, with consent of the Board, may from time to time determine. In respect of every existing nurse's application for registration in the general or any supplementary part of the Register there shall be paid to the Council by the applicant a fee of £1: Is., but in respect of such an application for registration in any second or subsequent part of the Register a fee of 10s. 6d. only for each such part. In respect of the retention in any year of the name of any person in the Register there shall be paid to the Council by the said person, on or before the 30th day of Retention September of each year, the sum of 2s. 6d., or such other sum as the Council, with consent of the Board, may from time to time determine for each part of the Register on which said person's name is retained. The Registrar shall send to the registered address of each nurse, whose retention fee has not been received before 31st October in any year, a written notice informing her of the con- sequence of failure to pay the said fee, and if the nurse fails to forward to the Registrar the said retention fee by 30th November in any year, her name shall be excluded from the Register as from the 31st day of December in the said year, unless the Council for any special reason otherwise direct. Where the name of a nurse has been excluded from the Register by virtue of the above provision, she shall be entitled to apply to have her name reincluded in the appropriate part or parts of the Register. Such application for Reinclusion reinclusion shall be accompanied by a written explanation of the applicant's failure to pay the retention fee as above provided. If the Council are satisfied with the explanation offered by the applicant they may reinclude her name in the appropriate part or parts of the Register on payment of all retention fees due and such further sum (not exceeding 2s. 6d. for each year in which her retention fee was not paid by the date on which it was due in terms of this Rule) as the Council may determine.
Fee.
Existing Nurses.
III. CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION TO THE REGISTER OF
EXISTING NURSES
21. A person who, within a period of two years after the date on which the rules to be made under Section 3 (2) (c) of the Act
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first come into operation, makes application for admission to the Register, being an existing nurse's application" as defined in the Act, shall apply upon the prescribed form and shall furnish-
(1) A satisfactory certificate of character in the form laid down in Schedule 1 hereto annexed from a householder who has known the applicant personally for at least three years (such person not to be a relative), and also (except in the case of applicants who produce the certificate of the Local Government Board for Scotland or the Scottish Board of Health aftermentioned) satisfactory certificates in the form laid down in Schedule 2, hereto annexed, as to character, knowledge, and experience from at least two responsible persons, such as matrons of hospitals or institutions for the treatment of the sick or registered medical practitioners under whom the applicant has actually worked. The certificates required by the Council shall be in the form prescribed by the Council, and shall be obtained direct by the Council from such persons as an applicant for registration shall name as persons willing and able to give certificates on his or her behalf.
(2) If required a certificate of birth or of baptism or a statutory declaration by a competent person bearing that the applicant is not under 21 years of age; and in the case of a married or widowed applicant a certificate of marriage;
and
(3) For admission to the general part of the Register (in which case
the applicant must be a female)—
(a) A certificate from the Local Government Board for Scotland or from the Scottish Board of Health that the applicant possesses the qualifications for the general part of the Register required by the Department so certifying;
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(b) A certificate of not less than three years' training before 1st November 1919 from a general hospital or institu- tion recognised by the Council for training for the purposes of the general part of the Register, and having one or more resident medical officers;
or
(c) Evidence that the applicant has been for three years before the 1st day of November 1919 bona fide engaged in practice as a nurse in attendance on the sick, and for at least the first one of the said three years in a
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