CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945 — Page 22

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I attach a copy of the Hong Kong Medical Registration Ordinance No. 41 of 1935 as amended by No.5 of 1941. section 11 I understand that any person who holds any degree of medicine and surgery granted by the University of Hong Kong shall be entitled to registerdor practice in Hong Kong. Our proposed Order-in-Council will set up a body empowered to confer degrees having the same validity as if they had been conferred at a congregation of the whole University. No difficulty, there- fore, need be anticipated in arranging for Hong Kong doctors who had two years training at the University but have graduated in China to be registered for practice in Hong Kong on our return.

2. Mr. Roberts-Wray has pointed out that they might be debarred from practising in this country since the Medical Act of 1886 requires that to be registered with the General Medical Council a colonial practitioner shall hold a diploma granted to him in a British possession. It would be possible, however, when the University is restored, for the Hong Kong degree to be conferred again pro forma in Hong Kong in order to overcome this difficulty.

3. The only disadvantage that these doctors would suffer, therefore, is that, pending the restoration of Hong Kong

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