Addition
of new sections
10A. 108. 10C and
10D.
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"provisional registration" means registration by virtue of section toD, and the expression "provisionally registered" shall be construed accordingly.'
3. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition, after section ro, of the following new sections---
**Fall Regiatra- tion not to be granted without proof of experience.
Certificate of
10A. No person shall be registered, otherwise than by way of provisional registration, unless-
(a) in the case of a person claiming registration by virtue of a degree of medicine and surgery granted by the University of Hong Kong, it is certified under section 10B that he has had the experience required by that section;
or
(b) in the case of a person claiming registration otherwise than by virtue of a degree of medicine and surgery granted by the Uni- versity of Hong Kongy the Medical Board is satisfied that he has had the experience required by section 10C.
Provided that if by virtue of a degree of medicine or surgery granted by the University of Hong Kong a person was before the 1st day of July, 1953, entitled to registration but in lieu of applying for the same such person left the Colony he shall upon application to the Medical Board at any time thereafter be entitled to full registration if the Medical Board is satisfied that he has had the experience required by section IOC.
108. (1) A certificate for the purposes of para- experience. graph (a) of section roA shall not be granted in respect of any person unless, after passing a qualify- ing examination, he has been employed in a resident medical capacity in one or more approved hospitals or approved institutions for the prescribed period.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the ex- pression "qualifying examination" means an examina- tion which has to be passed to obtain a qualification which by virtue of the provisions of section 10 entitles the holder thereof to registration under this Ordinance.
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(3) A person satisfying the condition specified in subsection (1) may apply for a certificate under this section to the University of Hong Kong, and if the University is satisfied-
(a) that during the time the applicant has been so employed as aforesaid he has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery for such respective periods as may be prescribed: and
(b) that his service while so employed has been
satisfactory,
the University shall grant, in such form as may be prescribed, a certificate that it is so satisfied.
(4) Any period during which an applicant, while employed as mentioned in subsection (1), has been engaged in midwifery, not exceeding such period as may be prescribed, shall be counted for the purposes of paragraph (4) of subsection (3) either as time spent in medicine or as time spent in surgery, as the applicant may elect.
(5) Where, during any period of such employ- ment as is referred to in subsection (1), an applicant who has been engaged in medicine has also been engaged in surgery or in midwifery or both, or an applicant who has been engaged in surgery has also been engaged in midwifery, the period shall be apportioned for the purposes of the foregoing provi- sions of this section in such manner as may be determined by the University of Hong Kong.
(6) In this section-
the expression "approved", in relation to a hospital or institution, means approved for the time being for the purposes of this section by the University of Hong Kong, and
references to employment in a resident medical capacity shall be construed as references to employment in the practice of medicine, surgery or midwifery, where the person in question is resident in the hospital or institution where he is employed or conveniently near thereto, and is by the terms of his employment required to be so resident.