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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1985
WINDING UP THE DEBATE, AND MOVING THE MOTION OF THANKS, SIR DAVID SAID ALSO +OUR DE BATES ARE DEVOID OF AGGRESSIVE, ADVERSARIAL CONTROVERSY, THE IR OBJECTIVE IS TO CONTINUE TO MOVE HONG KONG FORWARD, TO FIND THE CORRECT BALANCE AND EMPHASIS BETWEEN COMPETING DEMANDS, AND, TO ARRIVE AT A SENSIBLE ANTICIPATION OF FUTURE NEEDS.
+THE MEASURE OF OUR SUCCESS IS NOT THE AMOUNT OF HEAT GENERATED IN THIS CHAMBER, BUT THE CONTINUING DYNAMISM OF OUR ECONOMY, THE CONTINUING VITALITY OF OUR SOCIETY, AND IN ALL THE SPEECHES IN THIS DEBATE THERE IS TO BE FOUND THE FIRM RESOLVE TO CONTINUE THE BUILDING OF THIS GREAT CITY BY COOPERATION AND IN CONSENSUS, SIR DAVID SAID.
BILL SEEKS TO CLARIFY IRISH QUAL IF ICATION
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A BILL SEEKING TO ALLOW HONG KONG BELONGERS WHO HAVE OBTAINED MEDICAL QUAL IF ICATIONS IN THE IRISH REPUBLIC ON OR AFTER APRIL 30, 1985 TO CONTINUE TO REGISTER IN HONG KONG WAS INTRODUCED IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE MEDICAL REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1985, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE HON JOHN CHAMBERS, SAID UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE MEDICAL REGISTRATION ORDINANCE THE HOLDER OF AN IRISH MEDICAL QUALIFICATION WAS ENTITLED TO BE REGISTERED AS A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER IN HONG KONG IF HE WAS ELIGIBLE FOR REGISTRATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
HOWEVER, HE SAID THAT THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM RECENTLY DECIDED THAT PERSONS WHO WERE NOT NATIONALS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, AND WHO HAD OBTAINED A MEDICAL QUAL IF ICATION IN THE IRISH REPUBLIC AFTER APRIL 30, 1985, WOULD NO LONGER BE ELIGIBLE FOR REGISTRATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
+THE EFFECT OF THIS DECISION IS THAT NON-EEC NATIONALS HOLDING IRISH MEDICAL QUAL IF ICATIONS CEASED TO BE ENTITLED TO BE REGISTERED IN HONG KONG WITH EFFECT FROM THE SAME DATE,+ MR CHAMBERS SAID, ADDING THAT THIS HAD AFFECTED A NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROM HONG KONG WHO HAD RECENTLY OBTAINED QUALIFICATIONS
IN IRELAND.
HE NOTED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS BILL WAS TO PLACE ALL HOLDERS OF UNITED KINGDOM OR IRISH MEDICAL QUAL IF ICATIONS ON AN EQUAL FOOTING REGARDLESS OF THE IR NATIONALITY AND THUS ENABLE NON-EEC NATIONALS WITH IRISH QUAL IF ICATIONS TO CONTINUE TO REGISTER IN HONG KONG AS THEY HAD DONE IN THE PAST.
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.