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 62

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OUTWARD TELEGRAM

53611/7/45

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TO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. HONG KONG.

FROM WAR OFFICE.

Sent by War Office 18th October, 1945.

11.66 hrs.

ROUTINE.

21803 clear C.A.4 18th October, 1945.

Following for C.0.A.0. From Colonial Office.

Begins.

Order in Council providing for the establishment of a Committed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the conferment of medical degrees of Hong Kong University has now been made.

2. Providing you and Commander-in-Chief agree and the persons named below consent, it is proposed that this Committee should be constituted in Hong Kong, in order that the condition laid down in the relevant section of the Medical Act, can be met enabling the degree holders to be immediately eligible for registration with the General Medical Council. (Section 11 of the Medical Act prescribes that degrees shall have been conferred "in a British possession", and it has been ruled that degrees conferred in this country by the Emergency Committee, could not be accepted as coming within the terms of the Act.)

3. Persons proposed for Committee to be known as University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee, are Gordon King, Ride, Rowell, Fehily and Hazlerigg. suggested that last-named should be Chairman.

It is