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Publication of copy of
register and of additions
to the register.
Making alterations in register.
Subject to Stamp Ordinances registered person may practise and
recover
charges,
Unregistered
person not
to recover charges.
Avoidance
ed person. Exceptions.
(3) Every person registered shall furnish to the Medical Board an address within the Colony at which all notices from the Medical Board may be served on him. This address shall be entered in the register.
5. The names of persons added to the register shall be published in the Gazette. A copy of the register as it then stands shall be published by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services in the first Gazette issued after every 3rd of May. The absence of the name of any person therefrom and from subsequent issues of the Gazette shall be prima facie evidence that such person is not registered: Provided that the latest copy of the register and the latest list of persons authorised to sign medical certificates of the cause of death published under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance shall be effective until replaced under this section.
6. (1) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall make the necessary alterations in the addresses or qualifications of the persons registered, and cancel in the register the names of all persons registered who have died or ceased to be qualified.
(2) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services may send a letter to any registered person addressed to him according to his address in the register, to inquire whether he has changed his residence, and if he does not receive an answer within six months he may cancel the name of such person.
7. Subject to the provisions of any Ordinance relating to stamp duty, every registered person shall be entitled to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony, and, except in the case of a person whose conditions of employment do not permit him to do so, to demand and recover reasonable charges for medical or surgical aid rendered and the cost of medicines or surgical appliances supplied by him.
8. Subject to the provisions of section 3, no person shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge for any practice of medicine or surgery by any person not registered.
9. (1) No certificate which is, by any Act of Parliament of certificate or Ordinance, required to be signed by a physician, a surgeon, of unregister- an apothecary, or any other medical or surgical practitioner shall be valid unless the person signing it is registered in Part I of the register: Provided that medical certificates of the cause of death for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934, if signed by any person authorised in that behalf by the Governor, shall be valid in all respects if such person is registered in Part II of the register.
Ordinance No. 21 of 1934.
(2) The Governor in Council shall have power to make regulations to be observed by persons so authorised and the Governor shall have power to withdraw his authorisation from any person who in his opinion has failed to observe any of the said regulations. When such authorisation is withdrawn such person's name shall be deleted from Part II of the register.
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L.S.
HONG KONG.
No. 5 OF 1941.
assent.
E. F. NORTON,
Officer Administering the Government.
7th March, 1941.
An Ordinance to amend the Medical Registration Ordinance,
1935.
[7th March, 1941.]
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 Medical Regis- Short titlu tration Amendment Ordinance, 1941.
ance No.
2. Section 11 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Amendment 1935, is amended by the insertion of the words "and of Ordin- possesses an adequate knowledge of the English language, 41 of 1935, both spoken and written" after the words is of good s. 11, character" at the end of the proviso thereto.
3. Section 13 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Amendments 1935, is amended---
of Ordin- ance No.
41 of 1935,
(a) by the repeal of sub-section (1) thereof and by the 13. substitution therefor of the following sub-section :----
Board to
(1) If
any registered practitioner is convicted of any Power of offence or after due inquiry is judged by the Medical Board Medical to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional strike off respect, the Medical Board shall have power to make any such the register,
suspend, order as to removing from or striking off the register the name censure, etc. of the registered practitioner convicted of such offence or judged guilty of such conduct as aforesaid, as to suspending him from practice, as to censure, as to the payment of costs by any party attending the inquiry, and otherwise in relation to the case as the Medical Board may think fit.
(b) by the addition of the following sub-sections after sub-section (6) at the end thereof :-
(7) The Medical Board may, if it thinks fit, at any time direct that the name of a registered practitioner whose name has been removed from or struck off the register be replaced thereon,
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