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Following for cd40 From Colonial Office.
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Commander-in-Chief, 1. Order in Council providing for the establishment
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of a Committee, by the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the conferment of medical degrees of Hong Kong. University has now been made.
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2. Providing you and Comander-in-Chief agree and the persons named below,consent, it is proposed that this Committee should be constituted in Hong Kong, in order that the condition laid down in the relevant section of the Medical Act,can be met enabling the degree holders to be immediately eligible for registration with the General Medical Council. (Section 11 of the Medical Act prescribes that degrees shall have been conferred "in a British possession", and it has been ruled that degrees conferred in this country by the Emergency Committee, could not be accepted as coming within the terms of the Act.)
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Persons proposed for Committee to be known as University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee, are Gordon King, Rido, Rowell, Fehily and Hazlerigg. It is suggested that last-named should be Chairman,
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Certificates giving the necessary particulars of students eligible for degrees were submitted in Cordon King's letter to Miss Ruston of 15th August. It is presumed that he has copies of these certificates. If not, they can be sent out by air.
5. On receipt of telegram agreeing to this proposal letters of appointment would be despatched immed istely, and you would be so informed by telegram in order that the Committee could meet as soon as possible.
6. Signed copy of Order-in-Council already despatched.
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