222458-1935-Supplementary-Draft-Bill--Medical-Registration — Page 2

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 of certificate

of unregister- ed person. Exceptions,

Ordinance No. 21 of 1934.

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(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the latest list of persons authorised to sign medical certificates of the cause of death published under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance shall be effective until replaced under this section.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 or Ordinance, required to be signed by a physician, a surgeon, 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.

(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.