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ONE ANNUAL GAZETTING OF MIDWIVES

Wednesday, May 9, 1973

NAMES

Dr. the Hon. G.H. Choa, Director of Medical and Health Services, told

the Legislative Council today that in future details of registered midwives

would be published only once a year in the Gazette instead of twice.

He was moving the second reading of the Midwives Registration (Amendment)

Bill which sought to revise the Midwives Registration Ordinance in order to

authorise the change.

Dr. Choa explained that as of now, the ordinance required the

Midwives Board to publish in the Gazette, as soon as possible after January 1

each year, a list containing the names, addresses and dates of registration,

or re-registration, of every woman whose name was on the register on the first

day of that year.

In addition, the Board was required to publish a further list in

the Gazette during the second half of the year, containing additions to, or

deletions from, the register between January 1 and July 1.

"Since there are now in Hong Kong more than 4,700 midwives on the

register, and the number is increasing each year, the process of producing

these lists of registered midwives for gazetting twice a year is becoming

progressively more onerous," Dr. Choa said.

Other amendments concerned the admissibility of a sealed certificate

signed by the chairman or secretary of the Midwives Board as evidence of

registration for court purposes, and the recovery of costs.

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