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Amendment

4.

Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion

of section 7. of “in a supervisory capacity".

Repeal and replacement

of section 8.

5. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following sections-

"Exemption fromm section 7.

8. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2). the Registrar mey, in his absolute discretion, exempt from the provisions of section 7 any clinic in existence on the 5th day of September, 1963.

(2) After the 31st day of December, 1967, the Regis- trar shall not grant an exemption under subsection (1) in respect of a clinic carried on in a vehicle, whether mobile or not, or in premises which were at any time a vehicle.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance— (a) any exemption granted under subsection (1) prior to the commencement of the Medical Clinics (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1966 and in force at the commencement of that Ordinance shall continue in force until the 1st day of January, 1968 and shall then cease to be valid; and

(b) any such exemption granted after the commence- ment of the Medical Clinics (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1966 shall be valid until the end of the year in which it is granted.

(4) (a) If the person registered in respect of a clinic that has been exempted under subsection (1) from the provisions of section 7 desires that the exemp- tion shall be renewed, he shall make application for its renewal during the first week of the mouth of November, or, for good reason shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar, at such later date as the Registrar may allow.

(b) The Registrar may, in his absolute discretion. upon application in accordance with paragraph (2) renew any such exemption for a period of one year at a time, save that, after the 31st day of December, 1967, the Registrar shall not renew any such exemption in respect of a clinic carried on in a vehicle, whether mobile or not, or in premises which were at any time a vehicle. (c) Without prejudice to the discretion conferred upan the Registrar by paragraph (5) as to the renewal of any such exemption, the Registrar may refuse to renew any such exemption if he is satisfied that,

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within the preceding twelve months, any person practising medicine in the clinic bas contravened the Code of Practice published under subsec- tion (7).

(5) On the grant of any exemption under subsection (I) and on the renewal of any such exemption, the Regis- trar shall impose conditions relating to the remuneration to be paid to any persons practising medicine in the clinic other than registered medical practitioners and may impose such other conditions as he thinks fit.

(6) The Registrar may, in his absolute discretion and without assigning any reason therefor, cancel any exemp- tion granted under subsection (1).

(7) The Registrar may publish a Code of Practice for the purposes of this section prescribing standards of conduct for persons, other than registered medical practi- tioners, practising medicine in clinics and regulating the functions of such persons, and any such Code of Practice may prohibit the discharge by such persons of specified functions.

(8) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 27 of the (25 of 1957). Medical Registration Ordinance 1957, persons practising medicine in a clinic and in receipt of remuneration from the clinic in accordance with the conditions imposed on the grant or renewal of an exemption under subsection (1) shall not by reason solely of such practice be guilty of an offence under that section.

Exemptions from section 6 to cease

(9) The powers conferred on the Registrar by sub- section (1) and paragraph (b) of subsection (4) shall cease to be exercisable on the expiration of six years from the commencement of this Ordinance.

BA. (1) Every exemption granted under subsection (1) of section 8 prior to the commencement of the Medical to be valid. Clinics (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1966 exempting a clinic from the provisions of section 6 shall continue in force until the 1st day of January, 1968 and shall then cease to be valid, and, unless the person registered in respect of a clinic so exempted from the provisions of section 6 is re-registered in respect thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, he shall thereupon cease to be so registered.

(2) If the person registered in respect of any such clinic desires to continue to be so registered after the 31st