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Regulations.

(3) A certificate under the Seal of the Board stating that any person is, or was at any date, or is not, or was not at any date, duly registered under this Ordinance shall be conclusive evidence in all courts of law of the fact stated in the certificate.

(4) Any reference in this Ordinance to the register shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include a reference to any part of the register, and the expression "registered" shall be construed accord- ingly.

4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following

9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 91, purposes:- 8. 3.

(a) for regulating the formation, maintenance and

publication of the register;

(b) for regulating the conditions of admission to

the register;

(c) for regulating the conduct of

any

examinations

which may be prescribed as a condition of admission to the register, and any matter ancillary to or connected with any such examination;

(d) for prescribing the causes for which, the con- ditions under which, and the manner in which nurses may be removed from the register, and the procedure for the restoration to the register of nurses who have been removed therefrom ;

(e) for prescribing the constitution of the Board and for regulating the summoning of meet- ings of the Board and the proceedings (in- cluding quorum) of the Board;

(/) for enabling the Board to constitute com- mittees and for authorising the delegation to committees of any of the powers of the Board and for regulating the proceedings (including quorum) of committees ;

(g) for prescribing the fees to be payable ; () generally for making provision with respect

to any matters with respect to which the Governor in Council considers that provision should be made for the purposes of carrying this Ordinance into effect (including provi- sion with respect to the issue of certificates to nurses registered under this Ordinance and with respect to the titles which

may used and the uniforms or badges which may be worn by nurses so registered), and for prescribing anything which under this Ordi- nance is to be prescribed.

be

(2) Regulations under this section shall contain pro-

visions-

(a) requiring as a condition of the admission of

any person to the register that that

person

shall have undergone the prescribed training, and shall possess the prescribed experience, in the nursing of the sick; and

(b) requiring that the prescribed training shall be carried out either in an institution approved by the Board in that behalf or in the service of the Admiralty, the Army Council, or the Air Council; and

(c) enabling persons who, within a period of two years after the date on which the regulations to be made under the provisions of this para-

graph first come into operation, make an application in that behalf (in this Ordinance referred to as "an existing nurse's applica- tion") to be admitted to the register on producing evidence to the satisfaction of the Board that they are of good character, are of the prescribed age, and are persons who were for at least three years before the first day of November, 1930, bonâ fide engaged in practice as nurses in attendance on the sick under conditions which appear to the Board to be satisfactory for the purposes of this provision and have adequate knowledge and experience of the nursing of the sick. (3) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall he laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legis- lative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as frou the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.

trained

B. 6.

5. (1) Any person whose name is registered in Admission to any part or parts of the register kept by the General register of Nursing Council for England and Wales, or of the persons register kept by the General Nursing Council for outside the Scotland, or of the register kept by the Joint Nursing Colony. and Midwives Council of Northern Ireland or of the 9 & 10 register kept by the General Nursing Council for the Geo. 5, c. 94, Irish Free State and who produces a certificate under the seal of the said Council for England and Wales, or for Scotland, or for Northern Ireland or for the Irish Free State, certifying that his or her name is so registered as a nurse shall upon making an application in the prescribed manner, and upon satisfying the Board of his or her identity and good character, and upou paying the fee prescribed for ordinary applica- tions for registration under this Ordinance, be entitled to be registered in a corresponding manner under this Ordinance.

(2) If any person prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he or she has been trained in any place outside the Colony where the standard of training and examin- ation is not lower than the standard of training and examination required under this Ordinance, either as a general nurse for the sick or as a nurse of some special class, and satisfy the Board as to his or her identity and good character, the Board may either after examination or without examination upon payment of the fee pres- cribed for registration under this Ordinance, direct that such person shall be registered in the appropriate part or parts of the register.

removal from

6. (1) Any person aggrieved by the removal of his Appea! or her name from the register may, within three months against after the date on which notice has been served on him the register or her by the Board that his or her name has been so or against removed, appeal against the removal to the Governor refusal to in Council, and on such appeal the Governor in Council approve may give such directions in the matter as he thinks 9 & 10

proper.

(2) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Board to approve any institution for the purpose of the regulations under this Ordinance relating to train- ing may appeal against the refusal to the Governor in Council and the Governor in Council may give such

institution.

Geo. 5, c. 94, B. 7.

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