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HONG KONG.

No. 1 of 1931.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

6th February, 1931.

An Ordinance to provide for the registration

of nurses for the sick.

[6th February, 1931.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Nurses Short title. Registration Ordinance, 1931.

2. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance there Establish- shall be constituted a Nursing Board for the Colony of ment and Hong Kong (in this Ordinance referred to as Board").

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the

corstitution of a Nursing Board.

(2) The Board shall be constituted in accordance 9 & 10 with the provisions contained in the Regulations made Geo. 5, c. 94, under this Ordinance.

s. 1.

3.-(1) It shall be the duty of the Board to form Register of and keep a register of nurses for the sick (in this Nurses. Ordinance referred to as "the register") subject to 9 & 10 and in accordance with the provisions of this Ordi- Geo. 5, c. 94,

nance.

(2) The register shall consist of the following parts:-

(a) a general part containing the names of all nurses who satisfy the conditions of admis- sion to that part of the register ;

(b) a supplementary part containing the names of

male nurses;

(c) a supplementary part containing the names of nurses trained in the nursing and care of persons suffering from mental diseases;

(d) a supplementary part containing the names of nurses trained in the nursing of sick child-

ren;

(e) any other prescribed part.

Where any person satisfies the conditions of admission to any supplementary or prescribed part of the register, his or her name may be included in that part of the register notwithstanding that it is also included in the general part.

s. 2.