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Second Schedule,

Constitution of Medical Board.

Persons entitled

to be regis- tered in Part I of the register.

Evidence of

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(3) The regulations in the Second Schedule shall be in force except as they may be rescinded, suspended, amended or added to by regulations under sub-section (2).

10. (1) A Board, to be styled the Medical Board, shall continue to function and shall consist, as heretofore, of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and the Senior Naval and Military Medical Officers for the time being in the Colony, and two registered medical practitioners and three other fit persons willing to serve who may be appointed by the Governor.

(2) A member appointed by the Governor shall hold office for three years, and may be re-appointed or removed by the Governor at his pleasure.

(3) Three members of the Medical Board shall form a quorum.

(4) The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall be ex officio the chairman of the Medical Board; but in the case of his absence from any meeting of the Board, the members of the Board present shall appoint any other of its members as chairman. The chairman shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.

(5) The Board may make Standing Orders for regulating the procedure at, and in connection with its meetings.

11. The following persons shall be entitled to be registered in Part I of the register-

(a) Any person who is duly registered according to law as a medical and surgical practitioner in any other part of His Majesty's dominions and therein is entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery: Provided that such person's qualification is accepted by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom as admitting to registration by them;

(b) Any person who holds any degree of medicine and surgery granted by the University of Hongkong.

(c) Any person who holds a degree, diploma or licence in medicine and surgery of any medical school in Europe, the United States of America or the Empire of Japan, the degrees, diplomas, and licences of which are recognised as entitling to registration by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom:

(d) Any professor of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Hongkong.

Provided always that any such person shall prove to the satisfaction of the Medical Board that he is of good character.

12.--(1) Documentary or other evidence of the identity qualification of any person applying for registration under section 11 and of the facts and qualifications therein referred to shall be submitted to and forthwith considered by the Medical Board.

of person applying to be registered.

First

Schedule Form No. 2.

(2) If the Medical Board is satisfied with the proofs submitted, it shall grant to such person a certificate in Form No. 2 in the First Schedule or as near thereto as circumstances will permit.

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