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20th March,
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Sir,
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Your Reference 62920/29.
I am directed to inform you that the Registration Committee of the General Nursing Council have considered the copy of the Bill which it is proposed to introduce in the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong, entitled "An Ordinance to provide for the Sick" together with copy of the Regulations which it is proposed to make under the powers given in the Bill.
The Committee note that the terms of the Bill are practically identical with those of the Nurses Registration Act of 1919, with the exception of Section 5 (2) which allows the Authorities established under the Act of Hong Kong to admit to the Register nurses trained in other Countries.
In the event of this Bill becoming Law, the General Nursing Council for England and Wales would be prepared to make an Agreement for Reciprocal Registration if the Nursing Board for the Colony of Hong Kong made such an application, but it would be necessary to make the proviso that nurses admitted to the Register in Hong Kong under Section 5 (2) of the Act would not be admitted to the English Register unless they had trained in some other part of His Majesty's Dominions with which Reciprocal Registration has been established by this Council.
Under the Nurses Registration Act of 1919, it is only possible to admit to the Register of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales by Reciprocity, nurses who have received training in any part of His Majesty's Dominions in which "there is in force an enactment, or a provision of any kind having the force of Law, providing for the registration of nurses under some public authority" It would, therefore, not be right to make terms to admit to the English Register, through another agency, nurses who could not be
The Committee do not, admitted under the Act of this Country.
of course question the desirability of the insertion of this clause in the Hong Kong Act.
In regard to Section 10 (2) of the Regulations referring to the Registration of Male Nurses who have received training in the Service of the Admiralty, the Army Council, or the Air Council, it is perhaps well to point out that the General Nursing Council require that such men, in order to be eligible for entrance to the Examinations, shall hold either the Certificate S.1240 of the Admiralty, or A.F.C.344 of the Army Council, giving evidence of the
In recognized three years' training and Examination as a nurse. the case of the Air Force no special Certificate of training as a nurse is as yet adopted, the necessary details in regard to the training are however recorded on the Airman's Certificate of Service which has to be submitted. Reciprocal Registration under this Section would be limited to holders of these qualifications.
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