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Publication of copy of
register and of additions
to the register.
Making alterations in register.
Subject to Stamp Ordinances registered person may practise and
recover
charges,
Unregistered
person not
to recover
charges.
Avoidance
of certificate of unregister- ed person. Exceptions.
Ordinance No. 21 of 1934.
(3) Every person registered shall furnish to the Medical Board an address within the Colony at which all notices from the Medical Board may be served on him. This address shall be entered in the register.
5. The names of persons added to the register shall be published in the Gazette. A copy of the register as it then stands shall be published by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd of May. The absence of the name of any person therefrom and from subsequent issues of the Gazette shall be prima facie evidence that such person is not registered: Provided that the latest copy of the register and the latest list of persons authorised to sign medical certificates of the cause of death published under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance shall be effective until replaced under this section.
6.—(1) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall make the necessary alterations in the addresses or qualifications of the persons registered, and cancel in the register the names of all persons registered who have died or ceased to be qualified.
(2) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services may send a letter to any registered person addressed to him according to his address in the register, to inquire whether he has changed his residence, and if he does not receive an answer within six months he may cancel the name of such
person.
7. Subject to the provisions of any Ordinance relating to stamp duty, every registered person shall be entitled to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony, and, except in the case of a person whose conditions of employment do not permit him to do so, to demand and recover reasonable charges for medical or surgical aid rendered and the cost of medicines or surgical appliances supplied by him.
8. Subject to the provisions of section 3, no person shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge for any practice of medicine or surgery by any person not registered.
9.(1) No certificate which is, by any Act of Parliament or Ordinance, required to be signed by a physician, a surgeon, an apothecary, or any other medical or surgical practitioner shall be valid unless the person signing it is registered in Part I of the register: Provided that medical certificates of the cause of death for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934, if signed by any person authorised in that behalf by the Governor, shall be valid in all respects if such person is registered in Part II of the register.
(2) The Governor in Council shall have power to make regulations to be observed by persons so authorised and the Governor shall have power to withdraw his authorisation from any person who in his opinion has failed to observe any of the said regulations. When such authorisation is withdrawn such person's name shall be deleted from Part II of the register.
Schedule.
(3) The regulations in the Second Schedule shall be in Second force except as they may be rescinded, suspended, amended or added to by regulations under sub-section (2).
Board,
10.-(1) A Board, to be styled the Medical Board, shall Constitution continue to function and shall consist, as heretofore, of the of Medical Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and the Senior Naval and Military Medical Officers for the time being in the Colony, and two registered medical practitioners and three other fit persons willing to serve who may be appointed by the Governor.
(2) A member appointed by the Governor shall hold office for three years, and may be re-appointed or removed by the Governor at his pleasure.
(3) Three members of the Medical Board shall form a
quorum.
(4) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall be ex officio the chairman of the Medical Board; but in the case of his absence from any meeting of the Board, the members of the Board present shall appoint any other of its members as chairman. The chairman shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
(5) The Board may make Standing Orders for regulating the procedure at, and in connection with its meetings.
11. The following persons shall be entitled to be Persons registered in Part I of the register:
entitled to be regis. tered in
(a) Any person who is duly registered according to law Part I of
as a medical and surgical practitioner in any other part of His the register. Majesty's dominions and therein is entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery: Provided that such person's qualification is accepted by the General Council of Medical Éducation and Registration of the United Kingdom as admitting to registration by them;
(b) Any person who holds any degree of medicine and surgery granted by the University of Hongkong.
(c) Any person who holds a degree, diploma or licence in medicine and surgery of any medical school in Europe, the United States of America or the Empire of Japan, the degrees, diplomas, and licences of which are recognised as entitling to registration by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom :
(d) Any professor of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Hongkong.
shall prove to
Provided always that any such
person
the satisfaction of the Medical Board that he is of good character.
of person
12. (1) Documentary or other evidence of the identity Evidence of of any person applying for registration under section 11 and qualification of the facts and qualifications therein referred to shall be applying submitted to and forthwith considered by the Medical Board. to be
registered.
Schedule
Form No. 2
(2) If the Medical Board is satisfied with the proofs First submitted, it shall grant to such person a certificate in Form No. 2 in the First Schedule or as near thereto as circumstances will permit.
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