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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 336.-The following Bills are published for general information:

Short title.

Amendment

[No. 37 :--- 24.10.36.—2.j

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Midwives Ordinance,

1910.

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 Midwives (No 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. Section 2 of the Midwives Ordinance, 1910, as of Ordinance amended by the Midwives Amendment Ordinance, 1926, and by the Midwives Amendment Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the insertion of the words "and enrolled" after the word "certified" wherever that word occurs.

No. 22 of 1910, s. 2 as amended by Ordin-

ances

Nos. 12 of

1926 and 21 of 1936.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 22 of 1910, s. 5.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of 1910, s. 6.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of 1910, s. 7.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 22 of

1910, s. 8.

3. Section 5 of the Midwives Ordinance, 1910, is amended by the addition of the words "practising or authorised to practise in the Colony" after the word "midwives" in the second line.

4. Section 6 of the Midwives Ordinance, 1910, is amended by the insertion of the words "cancelling her certificate and" after the word "Board" in the second line.

5. Section 7 of the Midwives Ordinance, 1910, is amended by the insertion of the words "and enrolled" after the word "certified" wherever that word occurs.

6. The first paragraph of section 8 of the Midwives Ordinance, 1910, is repealed and the following two paragraphs are substituted therefor :-

Every certified woman, not already enrolled, who desires to practise or to be authorised to practise in the Colony shall, before holding herself out as a practising midwife or commencing to practise as a midwife, give notice in writing to the secretary applying for admission to the roll and shall pay an enrolment fee of five dollars.

Every certified and enrolled woman who desires her name to be retained on the roll on its next annual publication shall give notice of such desire in writing to the secretary in the month of January and shall pay a retention fee of one dollar.