(23 of 1957)
(Cap. 141).
Registration und practi- sing fres and certificate of registration. Second Schedule.
(iv) whether married or single:
(v) hospital or training school where trained: (vi) particulars of training and practice, if any: (vii) dates of previous applications to the Board, if any; and (b) be accompanied by the following documents—
(i) a certificate of character from a resident of standing in the Colony:
(i) a certificate or diplonia issued by a training school or, in the case of a woman claiming qualification for registration under paragraph (d), (e). (f) or (g) of subsection (1) of sec- tion 7 of the Ordinance, by the appropriate authorizing body;
(ii) passport or identification certificate;
(iv) two unmounted copies of a photograph of the applicant taken not more than two years before the date of application for registration,
(v) in the case of a woman seeking registration immediately after training in a training school, a record book of cases attended by her during such training; and
(vi) the certificate of a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1957. certifying that the applicant is not suffering from any infectious disease within the meaning of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, such as to render her unfit, in his opinion, to attend women in childbirth.
(2) In the case of application for registration by-
(a) a midwife of Her Majesty's Armed Forces serving on full pay
in the Colony; or
(6) a midwife on full time employment in that capacity with the
Government.
it shall be sufficient if the application is made by letter addressed to the secretary and signed by such midwife's commanding officer or head of department, as the case may be, stating the full name of the midwife, confirming her employment, enclosing two recently taken photographs of her and requesting that she be registered.
5. (1) Before the name of any woman is entered in the register or, if removed from the register otherwise than by an order of the Board made under paragraph (ii) of subsection (1) of section 10 of the Ordinance, re-entered in the register such woman shall pay to the secretary the appropriate fee prescribed in the Second Schedule.
(2) Where in accordance with section 22 of the Ordinance any registered midwife gives to the secretary notice of her intention to
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practise she shall pay, at the time of giving such notice, the appropriato fee prescribed in the Second Schedule and referred to therein as a practising fee.
(3) In the case of each of those midwives whose names appear in the register on the coming into operation of these regulations, the appropriate consolidated retention fee prescribed in the Second Schedule shall be payable on or before the 31st day of December, 1960, as a condition that her name may be retained on the register after that date.
(4) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) do not apply-
(a) to midwives of Her Majesty's Armed Forces while serving on
full pay in the Colony; or
(5) to midwives in the full time employment of the Government as
Government raidwives:
Provided that in neither case do such midwives engage in private practice.
(5) Upon registration or re-registration of any midwife the secretary shall issue to her a certificate of registration in accordance with Form 2 of the First Schedule.
First
Schedule. Form 2
6. (1) Every practising midwife shall maintain a case register in Case repister. the form prescribed in Form 3 of the First Schedule.
First
Schedule, Form 3.
(2) Every case register required to be kept in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be open to inspection on request by any person authorized thereto by the Director.
(33) Any midwife who contravenes any of the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five bundred dollars.
PART IIL
Training,
schools.
7. (1) No course of training in midwifery carried out in the Midwives' Colony shall be recognized by the Board unless such course is carried training out in an establishment declared by the Board by notification in the Gazette to be a training school for midwives.
(2) No establishment shall be approved by the Board under paragraph (1) unless the Board is satisfied that-
(a) an average of not less than five hundred confinements take
place therein annually;
(b) if the establishment is not connected with a general bospital.
ante-natal beds are provided: