CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931 — Page 13

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22nd May.]

[A.D. 1931.

A.D. 1931.]

[22nd May.

189

Fee for re-inclusion

in Register.

Publication

of each nurse whose retention fee has not been received before the 31st October a written notice informing her of the consequence of failure to pay the said fee, and if the nurse fails to forward to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services the said retention fee by the end of November, her name shall be excluded from the Register as from the beginning of the succeeding year unless the Board for any special reason otherwise direct.

7. Where the name of a nurse has been excluded from the Register under the last pre- ceding rule, she shall be entitled to apply to have her name re-included in the appropriate part or parts of the Register. An application. for re-inclusion shall be accompanied by a written explanation of the applicant's failure to apply for retention in the Register, and a fee of $5 shall be payable for such re-in- clusion. If the Board are satisfied with the explanation offered by the applicant, they may re-include her name in the appropriate part or parts of the Register.

8. Within three months of the beginning of Register, of the Ordinance, and thereafter as soon as possible after the first day of January of each year, the names of all persons included in the Register, with the particulars specified in the First Schedule, shall be published in the Gazette.

Evidence of character Form I.

PART III.

CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION TO REGISTER.

A.—EXISTING Nurses.

9.-(1) Every person who desires to obtain admission to the Register as an existing nurse shall, within one year after the date on

which this part of these regulations come into operation, make application to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services in Form I set out in the Second Schedule to these regula- tions, and shall furnish the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services with the names and addresses of at least three persons willing and able to give evidence of good character, one of whom shall be a person, not being a relative of the applicant, who has known her personally for not less than three years, and the others shall be persons such as matrons of hospitals or registered medical practitioners.

efficiency.

(2) The Board shall invite the persons so Evidence of named by the applicant to furnish testimonials professional as to her character and professional efficiency Forms II & in Forms II and III, and containing the parti- III. culars, set out in the Second Schedule, and any testimonials so furnished shall be sent direct to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.

10. The following evidence of adequate Evidence of knowledge and experience shall be required Training. from every person who makes application as

an existing nurse, namely:-

(1) In the case of an application for admission to the general part

of the Register, a certificate that the applicant has had not less than three years' training in a general hospital approved by the Board for training, having one or more resident Medical Officers: or

(2) In the case of an application for admission to the part of the Register containing the names of registered male nurses, a certificate that the applicant

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