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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1886.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 353.

The following Circular Despatch, accompanying a copy of the Medical Act, 1886, of which Part II. relates to Colonial and Foreign Practitioners, is published for general information.

By Command,

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th September, 1886.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

22nd July, 1886.

SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, a Copy of the Medical Act, 1886, of which Part II. relates to Colonial and Foreign Practitioners.

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

GRANVILLE.

CHAPTER 48.

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An Act to amend the Medical Acts,

BE

[25th June, 1886.]

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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A.D. 1886.

1. This Act may be cited as the Medical Act, 1886, and shall be construed as one Short title and with the Medical Acts.

PART I.

ADMISSION TO MEDICAL PRACTICE AND CONSTITUTION OF GENERAL COUNCIL.

Qualifying Examinations.

construction.

registration.

2. On and after the appointed day a person shall not be registered under the Examination before Medical Acts in respect of any qualification referred to in any of those Acts, unless he has passed such qualifying examination in medicine, surgery, and midwifery, as is in this Act mentioned.

examinations held by medical

3.-(1.) A qualifying examination shall be an examination in medicine. surgery, Qualifying and midwifery held, for the purpose of granting a diploma or diplomas conferring the right of registration under the Medical Acts, by any of the following bodies, that is to authorities. say:-

(a) Any university in the United Kingdom or any medical corporation, legally qualified at the passing of this Act to grant such diploma or diplomas in respect of medicine and surgery; or

(b.) Any combination of two or more medical corporations in the same part of the United Kingdom who may agree to hold a joint examination in medicine, surgery, and midwifery, and of whom one at least is capable of granting such diploma as aforesaid in respect of medicine, and one at least is capable of granting such diploma in respect of surgery; or

(c.) Any combination of any such university as aforesaid with any other such university or universities, or of any such university or universities with a medical corporation or corporations, the bodies forming such combination being in the same part of the United Kingdom.

(2.) The standard of proficiency required from candidates at the said qualifying examinations shall be such as sufficiently to guarantee the possession of the knowledge and skill requisite for the efficient practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery; and it shall be the duty of the General Council to secure the maintenance of such standard of proficiency as aforesaid; and for that purpose such number of inspectors as may be determined by the General Council shall be appointed by the General Council, and shall attend, as the General Council may direct, at all or any of the qualifying examinations held by any of the bodies aforesaid.

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