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Enclosure 3.

Hon. Colonia) Secretary,

I do not know when or on what authority German practitioners were struck off the register. I doubt very

much if there was any power to strike them off. I am not

aware that either enemy nationality or enemy status would supply a good ground. It is true that the power to recognis foreign qualifications not recognised by the General Medical Council was taken away by Ordinance No.31 of 1914, but

section 3(3) gave the Governor in Council power to authorise any person who was practising in the Colony on or before

1st July, 1914, and more important still, s.20 provides thei

all persons on the register at the commencement of Ordinance

To.33 of 1914 are to be deemed duly registered, I imagine

that the German practitioners were still on the register

at that date.

2. As there have been no Germen practitioners here

be for over 8 years I think that it would,a great pity if we

were to re-admit them and thus perpetuste, even in the case

of a few individuals, the old practice of recognising

foreign qualifications not recognised by the General

Medical Council. I am irelined to think that we should take express powers which would enable us to keep them out. This might be done by giving the Governor in Council power

to remove from the register any persons not qualified under

section 12.

(Sd.)

22nd November, 1922.

J. H. Kemp,

Attorney Genere).

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