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Clause,

Medical Act, 1858, Amendment.

[42 VICT.]

Medical Act, 1858, Amendment. [H.L.]

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[42 VICT.]

17. Powers, duties, and control of medical board.

18.

Grant by medical board of qualifying certificates with a right

to diplomas.

19. General provisions as to scheme for medical board.

Medical Authorities.

20. Majority of medical authorities to act.

21. Power of medical authorities to constitute medical diplomas. 22. Power of medical authorities to grant diplomas to both sexes. 23. Power to medical authority to act notwithstanding Act,

charter, &c.

Unregistered Persons.

24. Penalty for unauthorised assumption of titles, &c. by un-

registered persons practising medicine or surgery for gain.

Miscellaneous.

25. Exercise of powers of Privy Council.

26. Execution of duties of General Medical Council.

27. Prosecution of offences and recovery of fines.

28. Application of fines and penalties.

29. Amendment of law as to certificates of medical practitioners

for purposes of Lunacy Acts.

30. Amendment of 21 & 22 Vict. c. 90, s. 36. as to medical officers

in ships.

31. Saving for right of Archbishop of Canterbury.

32. Validity of scheme, &c.

33. Service of notices by post.

34.

Definitions.

Temporary Provisions and Repeal.

35. Saving for persons who have obtained qualifications before the

commencement of the joint board system.

36. Repeal of Acts.

SCHEDULES.

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BILL

INTITULED

An Act to amend the Medical Act, 1858.

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Preliminary.

A.D. 1879.

and short

1. This Act shall be construed as one with the Medical Act, Construction 1858, and the Acts amending the same, mentioned in the first title. schedule to this Act so far as they are unrepealed, and those Acts and 21 & 22 Viet, this Act may be cited together as The Medical Acts, 1858 to 1870; c. 90.

10 and each of those Acts may be cited by the short title in the said schedule mentioned, and this Act may be cited as The Medical Act, 1879.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January Commence- one thousand eight hundred and eighty, which day is in this Act ment of Act.

15 referred to as the commencement of this Act; but any orders and things which appear to the Privy Council or General Medical Council to be necessary or proper for bringing the Act into opera- tion, may be made or done before that day, and shall take effect on that day.

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Registration and Medical Board.

3. After the commencement of this Act the medical registrar Necessity

of obtaining shall not register a person in the medical register unless either such qualifying person is a licentiate in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the certificate medical authorities for one part of the United Kingdom, that is to cal board,

from medi-

25 say, has obtained through a medical board under this Act, for and obliga-

one part of the United Kingdom, a certificate that he has shown tory esta- blishment himself by examination to be qualified under this Act to practise of bourd. both medicine and surgery, including therein midwifery, or unless such person is a colonial or foreign practitioner entitled under this

30 Act to be registered without examination in the United Kingdom.

4. For the purpose of examining persons who desire to practise Establish medicine and surgery, and of granting the said certificates (in this ment of joint

medical Act referred to as qualifying certificates) on behalf of the medical board.

[Bill 121.]

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