CO129-506-11 Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance 1927 7-11-1927 - 7-11-1927 — Page 11

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registered, to the address furnished to the Medical Board.

Notices are to be sent by registered post and are deemed to

have been served as soon as they are posted.

16.

Section 9 of this Ordinance increases the maximum penalty

for an offence under section 17 of the principal Ordinance to

$1,000 and six months imprisonment.

the principal Ordinance is $100.

The maximum penalty 11

This seems much too small

for such an offence as wilfully and falsely using a title im-

-plying a qualification to practise medicine or surgery.

17.

The new section 18 which is inserted in the principal

Ordinance by section 10 of this Ordinance deals solely with

the question of appeal to the Governor in Council, the powers

of the Medical Board being dealt with in the new section 14

referred to above. The new section 18 contains the following

new provisions :-

(a) The appeal is to be by written petition.

(b) The petition must be presented within fourteen days

from the date of the service of the notice of the

decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned

(c) With the petition the Governor in Council may con-

-sider any written reply of the Medical Board to the

petition.

It will be seen that the section contemplates that the

appeal shall be decided on the written documents, and that

no provision is made for the appearance of the appellant

before the Governor in Council. Speaking generally, the

Governor in Council is probably not a very convenient tribunal

for bearing appeals crally. With regard to sub-paragraph

(c) above, no doubt the Governor in Council would in a proper

case give the appellant an opportunity of answering in writing

the reply of the Medical Board, e.g., if the reply of the

Medical Board disclosed new matter which was not disclosed at the inquiry.