CO129-530-6 Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931 6-2-1931 - 4-11-1931 — Page 57

Enclosure No. 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHA BERS,

HONG KONG.

7th February, 1931.

1

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.

1931.

73

1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an

Ordinance to provide for the registration of Nurses for the

sick, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is

not contrary to the Governor's instructions.

2. The object of this Ordinance is to provide for the

registration of nurses.

By this means the public will be safeguarded by knowing

that the nurses registered under the proposed Ordinance have

been properly trained and examined, and are competent to take

charge of their patients. It will also enable persons requiring

nurses, both the medical profession and private individuals, to

inspect the register and select nurses trained in the particular

work which they are desired to undertake.

The Ordinance follows the English Act, The Nurses

Registration Act, 1919, with this difference that a Board is

substituted for the General Nursing Council, and regulations by

the Governor in Council are substituted for rules made by the

General Nursing Council. This latter course is taken in

conformity with the usual practice in the Colony.

The Ordinance is drafted with the further object of obtaining

from the Nursing Councils for England and Wales, Scotland, Northern

Ireland and the Irish Free State respectively similar treatment for

Nurses which will be registered under it to that which the

Ordinance proposes conferring upon Nurses registered under the said