122
- 2 ·
-
Medical Register (Temporary Registration) Order (No.2), 1941, of which I enclose copies for convenience of reference.
*
4. On the assumption that we are precluded by the first difficulty from registering the graduates concerned under the Act of 1886 until the degrees are re-conferred in Hong Kong, you may wish to consider whether to make further provision to the effect that temporary registration for the purposes of the Ordinance shall entitle persons so registered to
We have never heard practise in the Straits Settlements. anything about the fate of the students who were at Singapore Medical College at the time of the Japanese occupation; and it seems possible that if the Straits Settlements are recovered before, or at or about the same time as, Hong Kong, there may be a great shortage of doctors there which the graduates concerned could help to meet so far as they go.
You will see that, so far as I can judge as a layman, what is indispensable for registration here under the Act of 1886 is that degrees granted outside Hong Kong should be put on the same footing as degrees granted in Hong Kong.
If your draftsman can perform this feat, and you can give the graduates concerned a title to practise in Hong Kong by means of temporary registration here, it seems to me that the requirements of section 11 of the Act will be met.
I am sorry not to have been able to reply to your letter before. I found the points which you raised, not tiresome, but difficult; and I have been very busy in preparation for an extra session of the Council which was held last week.
Yours sincerely,
Michel Kerettie
J.J. Paskin Esq., C.M.G., M.C.,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street, S.W.1.
し
Registrar.