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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 349.-The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 5th November, 1914-

A BILL

ENTITLED

Short title.

Repeal of section 2 of

Ordinance

No. 1 of 1884, and substitu- tion of new section therefor.

Repeal of section 3

An Ordinance to amend the Medical Registration

Ordinance, 1884.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Registra- tion Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and the Principal Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited to- gether as the Medical Registration Ordinances, 1884 and 1914.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :—

2. In this Ordinance :-

(1.) The words "person registered or words

to the like effect, shall be deemed to refer to a person registered under this Ordi-

nance.

(2.) The word "practise" shall include 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. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of Ordinance repealed and the following section is substituted there-

No. 1 of 1884

and sub- stitution of new section therefor,

Saving of rights of Chinese persons who practise according to Chinese methods.

Right of licentiaties of the Hong- kong College

of Medicine.

for

3.-(1.) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the right of any Chinese person to practise medicine or 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 any one to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery according to modern scientific methods,

(2.) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordi- nance contained every present and every future licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine shall be entitled to practise medicine and surgery and to demand and recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice provided that no such licentiate shall be entitled to sign any certificate required for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordi- nance, 1896, unless he has been authoris- ed thereto by the Governor.

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