Exemption

from

registra-

tion.

Certain medical Examiners may be exempted.

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PART V.

Exemptions, Savings, Regulations and Repeal.

28. The following persons shall be exempted from registra- tion and shall be deemed to be registered medical practitioners while serving in or holding the appointments specified-

(a) all medical officers of Her Majesty's Forces serving on

full pay in the Colony;

(b) all ships' surgeons while in the discharge of their duties;

(c) any person who is in the Colony for the purpose of teaching and research in any institution recognized from time to time by the Council for that purpose and not having any of the qualifications mentioned in section 7 for so long as he continues to engage himself exclusively in teaching and in research and the clinical practice of medicine directly connected with and necessary for the performance of his teaching duties;

(d) any person, other than a person serving a prescribed period of employment under subsection (1) of section g, who is in the full time service of-

or

(i) the Government as a Government medical officer:

(i) the University for the purpose of teaching in the pathological department of the faculty of medicine, or in the clinical units of medicine or of surgery or of obstetries and gynaecology of such faculty,

and who is duly authorized for that purpose by the Director subject to such terms and conditions as the Director, in his absolute discretion, may impose.

29. (1) Notwithstanding that he may not be entitled to be registered, a national of a foreign country who is registered as a medical practitioner in that country and who is employed by the government of that country, may, with the consent of the Governor, conduct medical examinations of applicants for admis- sion into that country with a view to ascertaining their fitness for admission.

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(2) Such consent may be given subject to such conditions

as the Governor may think fit to impose and may be revoked at any time in the absolute discretion of the Governor.

(3) For the purposes of this section, the expression "foreign country" means any country outside the Commonwealth.

30. (1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect Chinese the right of any person of Chinese race, not being a person taking medicine. or using any name, title, addition or description calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods, to practise medicine or surgery according to purely Chinese methods and to demand and recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice.

(2) For the purposes of this section-

(a) the taking or using in Chinese by any person of the namo, title, addition or description of # or *54 or 48 or 8 or M or of any words or characters implying specialization when preceded by the afore- mentioned characters shall not be deemed to be the taking or using of a name, title, addition or description cal- culated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods :

Provided that in any English translation of such characters the word "Herbalist" must be included; (b) the taking or using by any person of the name, title, addition or description of **›84•**› @£»**±·

#FEET » BURNT » PRET, RAE) and the taking or using of words or characters implying specialization if preceded by words or characters other than those specified in para- graph (4) shall be deemed to be the taking or using of a name, title, addition or description calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods and that he is registered.

31. The Governor in Council may by regulation prescribe Power of or provide for-

(a) the duties of the Registrar;

(b) the duties of the Legal Adviser to the Council;

Governor

in Conneil

to make regulations.

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