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Meelings of the Council.

Registrar.

Register.

Qualifica- tions for registra- tion.

4. (1) The Council shall meet at such times and such places as the Director may appoint.

(2) At any meeting of the Council five members shall be a quorum.

(3) The validity of any proceedings of the Council shall not be affected by any vacancy among the members thereof or by any defect in the appointment of a member thereof.

(4) All questions coming or arising before a meeting of the Council shall be decided by a majority of the members of the Council present and voting thereon.

(5) The Chairman at any meeting of the Council shall have an original vote and also, if upon any question the votes shall be equally divided, a casting vote except in an inquiry under section 20 at which he shall have only an original vote.

(6) The Council may make standing orders for regulating the procedure at, and in connexion with, its meetings.

PART II1.

Registration of Medical Practitoners.

5. For the purposes of this Ordinance, there shall be a Registrar of Medical Practitioners who shall be the Director.

B. (1) The Registrar shall cause a register to be kept in such form as shall be prescribed and containing the pames, addresses and qualifications, and such other particulars as may be prescribed-

(@) in Part I of the register, of all persons who have been

registered; and

(b) in Part II of the register, of all persons who have been

provisionally registered but not registered.

(2) The Registrar shall be responsible for the maintenance and custody of the register.

7. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the following persons shall be entitled to be registered as medical practitioners-

(a) any person who holds a Colony diploma;

(b) any person who holds any other degree or diploma which is recognized by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom as a qualification entitling the holder to be registered in the medical register of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

8.

A person shall not become registered, otherwise than by way of provisional registration, unless-

(a) in the case of a person claiming registration by virtue of Experience

a Colony diploma, it is certified under section that he has had the experience specified in that section; or

(b) in the case of a person claiming registration by virtue of a Commonwealth or foreign diploma, the Council are satisfied that he has had such experience as is specified in section 10:

Provided that if, by virtue of a degree of medicine or surgery granted by the University, a person, before the 1st day of July, 1953, was entitled to registration or provisional registration but in lieu of applying for registration or provisional registration such person left the Colony, on application to the Council at any time thereafter he shall be entitled to be registered if the Council is satisfied that he has had the experience required by section 10.

0.

ceRATT for regla- tration.

(1) A certificate for the purposes of paragraph (4) of Certificate section 8 shall not be granted in respect of any person unless after experience. passing a qualifying examination he has been engaged in employ- ment in a resident medical capacity in an approved hospital or in an approved institution for such period as may be prescribed.

(2) A person satisfying the condition specified in subsection (1) may apply to the University for a certificate under this section, and if the University is satisfied that-

(a) during the time the applicant has been so employed as aforesaid he has been engaged for such period or minimum period as may be prescribed in medicine, and for such period or minimum period as may be prescibed in surgery; and

(b) 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.