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Medical Act, 1858, Amendment.

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A.D. 1979.

Examination Rules.

Examination rules for securing uniformity

of exumina- tions for

15. (1.) The General Medical Council shall frame, and when framed may revoke, alter, and add to rules (in this Act referred to as examination rules) for regulating the curriculum of study and the examinations of persons desiring to obtain a qualifying 5 qualification. certificate under this Act, and determining the subjects thereof and the standard for passing and the method of conducting the same, and providing for the supervision thereof by such Council, and the presence thereat of members of such Council; and it shall be the duty of the General Medical Council to see that the examination 10 rules in each part of the United Kingdom are so framed and carried into offect that the qualifying certificate shall, as nearly as pos- sible, be granted on equal terms so far as regards the curriculum of study, examinations, and standard.

(2.) The examination rules shall not require a candidate to adopt 15 or refrain from adopting the practice of any particular theory of medicine or surgery.

(3.) The examination rules shall determine the conditions of ad- mission of candidates to the examinations, including the production of evidence of good character, and shall provide for the admission 20 thereto on special terms of medical students who have begun their professional studies before the passing of this Act, and of persons who have obtained medical diplomas in or studied in any British possession or foreign country, or have passed other examinations.

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(4.) The examination rules shall provide for the admission of women to the examinations, and may make such distinctions (if any) as may be judged proper between the cases of men and women, so however that the examinations of men and women be in all general respects equal.

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(5.) The examination rules, and any revocation or alteration thereof, so far as relates to the admission of candidates, shall be submitted by the General Medical Council to the Privy Council for confirmation, and the Privy Council, after giving to the medical boards and medical authorities an opportunity of objecting, and 35 after considering any objection made, may, if they think fit, by order confirm such rules revocation or alteration, either without modification, or with any modifications therein of which notice has been given to the medical boards and medical authorities and General Medical Council.

(6.) If any medical board or medical authority feel aggrieved by any of the examination rules, whether as regards the admission of

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Medical Act, 1858, Amendment. candidates or other mattters, or if any authority or persons feel A.D. 1879. aggrieved by the failure of those rules to recognise any particular examination or any particular place or course of study, such board, authority, or persons may appeal to the Privy Council, and the 5 Privy Council, after communication with the General Medical Council, may make such order in the matter as they think just, which order shall be duly observed.

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(7.) If the Privy Council refuse to confirm any examination rules, the General Medical Council shall, as soon as may be, submit to the 10 Privy Council new rules.

(8.) All rules made in pursuance of this section when confirmed by the Privy Council, and all rules made in pursuance of this section which do not require to be submitted to the Privy Council, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be 15 after such rules are confirmed and made respectively, if Parliament be then sitting, or, if not, as soon as may be after the beginning of the then next session of Parliament.

Board for Medical Examinations,

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16. The medical authorities of each part of the United Kingdom Scheme for establishing 20 shall as soon as may be frame, with the sanction of the General joiut medical Medical Council, a scheme for a medical board for such part, and board for such scheme when confirmed, as hercin-after mentioned, shall, so far conducting as is consistent with the other provisions of this Act, have full effect. aminations.

Where the medical authorities of any part of the United Kingdom 25 have before the passing of this Act agreed, with the sanction of the General Medical Council and the approval of the Privy Council, upon any such scheme as aforesaid, that scheme is hereby confirmed and shall come into operation at the commencement of this Act without any further confirmation; and the persons in whom the 30 nomination either of the examiners or of the persons out of whom the examiners are to be selected is vested, shall be the medical board for the purposes of this Act.

In any other case the General Medical Council may submit the scheme as sanctioned by them to the Privy Council for confirmation. 35 If at any time after the commencement of the joint board system there is not in any part of the United Kingdom a medical board under this Act, whether through the want of a scheme or other. wise howsoever, the General Medical Council shall forthwith cause to be framed and sanction a scheme for the establishment of a 40 medical board for that part of the United Kingdom, and shall

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