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Short title.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 23:-8.9.36.-4.]

An Ordinance to provide for the registration and inspection of nursing homes and maternity homes and for purposes connected therewith.

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 Nursing and 17 & 18 Geo Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance, 1936.

5, c. 38,

s. 12 (1).

Interpreta-

tion.

17 & 18 Geo.

5, c. 38,

s. 10 (1).

Ordinance No. 1 of 1931, s. 3 (2) (a).

Ordinance No. 22 of 1910.

Ordinances No. 22 of 1910.

No. 12 of 1926, No. 5 of 1928.

2.--(1) In this Ordinance--

"Register" and "Registration" mean register and registration under this Ordinance;

"Nursing home" means any premises used or intended to be used for the reception of and the providing of nursing for persons suffering from any sickness, injury, or infirmity; but does not include any hospital or other premises maintain- ed or controlled by any Imperial or local Government department.

"Maternity home" means any premises used or intended to be used for the reception of pregnant women or of women immediately after childbirth; but does not include any hospital or other premises maintained or controlled by any Imperial or local Government department.

"Qualified nurse" means a person registered in the general part of the register of nurses required to be kept under the Nurses Registration Ordinance, 1931;

"Certified midwife" means a woman certified under the Midwives Ordinance, 1910.

"Pupil midwife" means a person who is undergoing training with a view to becoming a certified midwife, and for that purpose attending women in childbirth as part of a course of practical instruction recognised by the Midwives Board established under section 4 (1) of the Midwives Ordinance, 1910, as amended by section 4 of the Midwives Amendment Ordinance, 1926, and by section 2 of the Principal Civil Medical Officer (Change of Name) Ordinance, 1928.

(2) In relation to any premises used or intended to be used solely for the reception of, and the provision of nursing for, a class of patients in whose case the requisite nursing can be suitably and adequately provided by nurses of a class whose names are contained in some part of the register of