The register.
(Cap. 164).
Information with respect to Burses.
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(6) The Board may make standing orders for regulating procedure at or in connexion with, its meetings.
PART III.
Registration of Nurses.
5. (1) The Board shall cause a register to be kept which shall contain such particulars as may from time to time be prescribed.
(2) The register shall be divided into such number of parts as may be prescribed.
(3) Where a person satisfies the conditions of admission to more than one part of the register, his name may be included in each such part.
(4) A certificate purporting to be under the seal of the Board and signed by the chairman or secretary of the Board stating that a person is or was at any date or is not or was not at any date duly registered shall be evidence in all courts of law of the fact stated in such certificate until the contrary is proved.
(5) The register of nurses kept in accordance with the provisions of the Nurses Registration Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance aball be deemed to be the register required to be maintained, and to have been maintained, in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance: und every nurse whose name appears therein at the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been registered as a nurse in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
6. (1) The register or a copy thereof shall be kept at the headquarters of the Medical and Health Department and shall be open to inspection by any person free of charge during usual business hours upon application being made in writing addressed to the secretary,
(2) The Board shall cause to be published in the Gazette in relation to successive periods, in such manner as the Board may think fit and at intervals of not mare than twelve months, lists of all persons whose names have been entered in, removed from or restored to the register during these periods.
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(I) The secretary may from time to time amend the register Correction as to the address or other relevant particulars relating to any nurse of the
register. whose name appears therein upon his being satisfied that such amend. ment is necessary for the purpose of preserving the accuracy of the register.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 15, the secretary shall add to or delete from the register the name of any nurse whöse name the Board directs shall be added thereto or deleted therefrom, as the case may be.
(3) Without prejudice to anything contained in Part IV, the Board may direct that the name of any nurse be removed from the register who
(a) requests in writing addressed to the secretary that his name
be so removed;
(b) dies;
(c) has left the Colony without giving to the secretary notice of
intention to return;
(d) has not kept the secretary supplied with an address in the Colony at which notices from the Board may be served upon him:
Provided that-
(i) this paragraph shall not apply to any registered nurse io the service of the Government; and
() any nurse who fails to acknowledge within twelve months after the date of despatch the receipt of a registered letter or telegram addressed to him at his last address 45 recorded in the register shall be deemed not to have kept the secretary supplied with an address under this paragraph.
8. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, no person Qualification shall be qualified to be registered under this Ordinance unless he has for rexistra satisfied the Board that-
(a) he has attained the minimum age of twenty-one years; (b) he is of good character.
and in addition thereto-
(c) he has completed such training as may be prescribed and has passed such examinations as may be required by the Board; or
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