CO129-506-11 Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance 1927 7-11-1927 - 7-11-1927 — Page 12

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Section 11 of this Ordinance provides that all professors

of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong shall

be deemed to be registered practitioners. It is understood

that those professors are entitled by the terms of their agree-

-ments with the University to practise as consultants.

19.

Section 12 of this Ordinance repeals section 20 of the

principal Ordinance. Sub-section (1) of that section seems

unnecessary. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance lays

down the requirements for registration, and it must be under-

stood that persons who do not fulfil those requirements are

not entitled to be registered. Sub-sections (2) and (3)

formed a temporary provision introduced by Ordinance No. 2 of

1923 with the object of giving power to remove from the regis-

-tez certain persons whose qualifications would not be raccg-

nised by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom and

who had not practised in Hong Kong for a number of years.

Under the original Ordinance of 1884 persons could be regist-

-ered whose qualifications would not be recognised by the

General Medical Council. The amending Ordinance of 1914

adopted the principle of accepting only such perschs as would

be accepted by the General Medical Council, and it therefore

seemed not unreasonable to clear the register of the class of

peracne referred to above. It will be noticed that it bad to

be proved that the perscr proposed to be struck off had not

practised in the Colony for five years. It seems unnecessary

to retain this temporary provision.

20. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency

the Officer Administering the Government may properly assent

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17aine of His Majesty and on His behalf.

Attorney General.