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Addition

of new Bection 30A.

3. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition after section 30 of the following new section-

*Treatment of diseases of the eye.

30A. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of sec- tion 30, no person unless he is a registered medical practitioner or is provisionally registered shall hold himself out as being qualified, competent or willing to undertake the treatment of diseases of the human eye or the prescription of remedies therefor, or the giving of advice in connexion with the treatment thereof :

Provided that nothing in this section shall be taken to prohibit a person who is not a registered medical practitioner from holding himself out as being qualified, competent or willing to test refraction, visual acuity and colour vision, or to make or provide: spectacles or other optical appliances for the remedy of defects of vision,

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(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six:

months.".

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 11th day of June, 1958.

(Secretariat CR8/3231/53)

вовао

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

HOHE KOHE

No. 20 OF 1958.

1 assent.

Sham

Governor.

26th June, 1958.

An Ordinance to amend the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, Chapter 141, and to repeal the Vaccina- tion Ordinance, 1923.

[27th June, 1958.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

This Ordinance may be cited as the Quarantine and Short title. Prevention of Disease (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958.

2. Section 59 of the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Amend. Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) is ment of amended by the deletion of the proviso thereto.

section 59. (Cap. 141).