DRAFT AND RECORD COPY
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
53611/7/45
deepalkit
3 1
i
5015
3.7.1.
January, 1946.
na
DRAFT
32
2)
Dear Mr. Hezeltine,
I am very sorry to lind that no reply has been sent to your letter H/PT No. 61459 of the 23rd July last about the establishment of a Committee to confer MR-Miss Ruston medical degrees on behalf of the University of Hong
Kong.
MR.
MR.
7.46
For the reasons set out in your letter we had congluded that the grant of degrees by a Committee established by Order in Council in this country would preclude the holders from registration with the Generel Medical Council until such time as the position could be regularized in Hong Kong. We were vised thut nevertheless they would be eligible r'or
ENCLOSURES
FURTHER ACTION
registration in Hong Kong and since the candidates
In question would probably be needed to practice In the Colony as soon as possible after its liberation Ve decided.
that the order in Council should be
issued.
Buy
The Order was therefore druited but before it had been submitted for the approval or the ring in Council the Japanese war had come to an end and the situation had fundamentally changed. The new circumstances made it possible for the Committee to be convened in Hong Kong and not in this country as had been previously contemplated. This course had the advantage of avoiding the technical dificulty
rising from the wording of Section 11 of the Medicul act and on our understanding holders of degrees
onferred by the Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency
To
MICHAEL HAZELTIAN, B., C.1.
General Medical Council,
44 Hallam, $treet,
Portland Place, W.1.
[3185H) Wt. 17782/355 10m. 6/44 C.N.Ld. 748
/Committee