6. The difficulty of negotiating the application of Part II of the Act to Free China under war conditions will be even more apparent to the Department than it is to the President. It is sufficient at this stage to note that the condition of such application enacted by section 17 of the Act is that the foreign country concerned should in the opinion of His Majesty afford to the registered medical practitioners of the United Kingdom such privileges of practising in the foreign country. as to His Majesty may seem just.
As regards the recognition under section 13 of the Act of degrees granted in Free China, the Council have not hitherto had any occasion to inform themselves of the standard of the courses of study and examinations which students go through in Colleges in Free China classified as Grade A Colleges by the Chinese Ministry of Education; and even if such information could be obtained on paper without inordinate delay, it would be contrary to the recent practice of the Executive Committee of the Council to reconise the degrees except after an inspection on their behalf of the institutions where the courses were provided, if not also of the examinations.
8. The separate considerations raised by the cases of the former students of the University of Hong Kong to whom medical degrees were granted by the University immediately before hostilities
an in the Colony will also be discussed by the Committee on
same occasion.
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