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Approved experienco in resident medical capacity.

First Schedule, form 2.

Applica- Lion for regis- tration. First Schedule, Form 3.

5. (1) The period of employment in a resident medical capacity in an approved hospital or institution in accordance with subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section g of the Ordinance. subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of that section, shall be one year, of which six months shall be spent in a resident surgical post and six months in a resident medical post:

Provided that time spent in midwifery may be counted for the purpose of such service either as time spent in medicine or as time spent in surgery as the applicant may elect for a period not exceeding six months.

(2) A certificate issued by the University in accordance with subsection (2) of section 9 of the Ordinance shall be in accord- ance with Form a in the First Schedule.

6. (1) An application for registration shall be in accord- ance with Form 3 in the First Schedule and shall be completed in the presence of a barrister-at-law, commissioner for oaths, justice of the peace, minister of religion, registered medical practitioner or solicitor and shall be delivered to the Registrar together with four copies of a photograph of the applicant of a size not greater than 2" x 24" and not less than 13′′ x 24′′.

(2) The Council may require an applicant for registration to provide one or more of the following-

(a) the original diploma entitling the applicant to be

registered;

(b) evidence of identity in the form of a statement by a harrister-at-law, commissioner for oaths, justice of the peace, minister of religion, registered medical practi tioner or solicitor to the effect that the applicant for registration is personally known to him and is in fact the person whose name appears in the application;

(C) a certificate of registration as a medical practitioner in any other Commonwealth country if the applicant has been registered in such country :

(d) a certificate of approved experience covering a period of

at least one year.

1.

A certificate of registration shall be in accordance with Certificate Form 4 in the First Schedule.

of rogia- tration.

First Schedule, Form 4

8.

On application and on payment of the fee specified in Copy of the Second Schedule the Registrar shall issue a certified of any entry in the register.

entry in

copy

register. Second Schedule

PART III.

Proceedings preparatory to hearing by Council of an inquiry.

9. (1) For the purposes of performing the functions con- Prelimi- ferred on them by these regulations, there shall be established a nary Inves-

tigation committee known as the Preliminary Investigation Committee Committee. consisting of

(a) the member of the Council appointed under paragraph (4) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Ordinance, who shall be the Chairman; and

(b) two members of the Council appointed under paragraph (/) of subsection (a) of that section elected by the Council for a period of twelve months.

(2) The Committee shall meet from time to time as directed by the Registrar and any meeting of the Committee may be adjourned at any time by the Chairman of the Committee.

10. (1) No order shall be made under section 20 of the Procedure Ordinance except in consequence of an inquiry held substantially of Council. in accordance with the provisions of these regulations into a charge formulated in a notice of inquiry served in accordance with the said provisions on the person against whom the charge is made.

(2) Before the formulation of any such charge, the matters out of which it arose must have been considered by the Committee and referred by them to the Council for inquiry.

11. (1) Where a complaint is made or information is received by the Registrar that a registered medical practitioner-

Sub- mission of complaint or informa

(a) has been convicted in the Colony or elsewhere of any tion to

offence punishable with imprisonment;

Committee.