Enclosure No. 2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHA BERS,
HONG KONG.
7th February, 1931.
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REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.
1931.
73
1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an
Ordinance to provide for the registration of Nurses for the
sick, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is
not contrary to the Governor's instructions.
2. The object of this Ordinance is to provide for the
registration of nurses.
By this means the public will be safeguarded by knowing
that the nurses registered under the proposed Ordinance have
been properly trained and examined, and are competent to take
charge of their patients. It will also enable persons requiring
nurses, both the medical profession and private individuals, to
inspect the register and select nurses trained in the particular
work which they are desired to undertake.
The Ordinance follows the English Act, The Nurses
Registration Act, 1919, with this difference that a Board is
substituted for the General Nursing Council, and regulations by
the Governor in Council are substituted for rules made by the
General Nursing Council. This latter course is taken in
conformity with the usual practice in the Colony.
The Ordinance is drafted with the further object of obtaining
from the Nursing Councils for England and Wales, Scotland, Northern
Ireland and the Irish Free State respectively similar treatment for
Nurses which will be registered under it to that which the
Ordinance proposes conferring upon Nurses registered under the said