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(C.S.O. 4798/35.)

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[No. 23-3.7.35.-4.]

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Saving of rights of Chinese

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law regulating

the registration of practitioners in medicine and surgery.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Registra- tion Ordinance, 1935.

2. In this Ordinance

(a)

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Person registered or words to the like effect, shall be deemed to refer to a person registered under this Ordinance.

(b) "Practise" includes the diagnosis of any form or forms of disease whether the cases diagnosed be treated medically or surgically or not: Provided that laboratory assistants who work for or under a registered practitioner shall not by reason only of such laboratory work be deemed to practise medicine or surgery.

3. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the right of any Chinese person to practise medicine or persons who surgery according to purely Chinese methods and to demand and recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice : Provided that such person does not take or use any name, title or addition calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods.

practise according to Chinese methods.

Register of practi- tioners.

First

Schedule

Form No. 1.

1

Ordinance No. 21 of 1934.

4. (1) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall keep a register of medical and surgical practitioners qualified to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony, as nearly as may be according to Form No. 1 in the First Schedule.

(2) Such register shall be divided into two parts. Part I shall contain the names of persons qualified to practise medicine and surgery generally. Part II shall contain the names of persons authorised by the Governor to sign medical certificates of the cause of death for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934, under the proviso to section 9 (1) of this Ordinance.