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A.D. 1886.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1886.

(d.) That it is expedient that any constituent body having, in the opinion of the General Council, so diminished in importance as not to be entitled to such privilege, should either be wholly deprived of the power of returning a member to the General Council, or be deprived of the power of returning a member separately, and permitted to return a member collectively with some other body or bodies.

(2.) The Privy Council, before considering such representation, shall cause the same to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

3.) If either House of Parliament, within forty days (exclusive of any period of adjournment for more than one week) next after any such representation has been laid before such House, present an address to Her Majesty declaring that such representation or any part thereof ought not to be carried into effect, no further proceedings shall be taken in respect of the representation in regard to which such address has been pre- sented, but if no such address is presented by cither House of Parliament within such forty days as aforesaid, the Privy Council may, if they think fit, report to Her Majesty that it is expedient to give effect to such representation, and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council to give effect to the same, and any Order in Council so made shall be of the same validity as if it had been enacted in this Act.

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PART II.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRACTITIONERS.

with recognised

11. On and after the prescribed day where a person shows to the satisfaction of Registration of the registrar of the General Council that he holds some recognised colonial medical colonial practitioner diploma or diplomas (as herein-after defined) granted to him in a British possession to diploma. which this Act applies, and that he is of good character, and that he is by law entitled to practise medicine, surgery, and midwifery in such British possession, he shall, on application to the said registrar, and on payment of such fee not exceeding five pounds as the General Council may from time to time determine, be entitled, without examina- tion in the United Kingdom, to be registered as a Colonial practitioner in the medical register;

Provided that he proves to the satisfaction of the registrar any of the following

circumstances:

(1) That the said diploma or diplomas was or were granted to him at a time when he was not domiciled in the United Kingdom, or in the course of a period of not less than five years during the whole of which he resided out of the United Kingdom; or

(2.) That he was practising medicine or surgery or a branch of medicine or surgery in the United Kingdom on the said prescribed day, and that he has continuously practised the same either in the United Kingdom or elsewhere for a period of not less than ten years immediately preceding the said prescri- bed day.

with recognised

12. On and after the said prescribed day where a person shows to the satisfaction Registration of of the registrar of the General Council that he holds some recognised foreign medical foreign practitioner diploma or diplomas (as herein-after defined) granted in a foreign country to which diploma. this Act applies, and that he is of good character, and that he is by law entitled to practise medicine, surgery, and midwifery in such foreign country, he shall, on applica- tion to the said registrar, and on payment of such fee not exceeding five pounds as the General Council may from time to time determine, be entitled, without examination in the United Kingdom, to be registered as a foreign practitioner in the medical register ; Provided that he proves to the satisfaction of the registrar any of the following circumstances

(1.) That he is not a British subject; or

(2.) That, being a British subject, the said diploma or diplomas was or were granted to him at a time when he was not domiciled in the United Kingdom, or in the course of a period of not less than five years during the whole of which he resided out of the United Kingdom; or

(3.) That, being a British subject, he was practising medicine or surgery, or a branch of medicine or surgery, in the United Kingdom on the said prescribed day, and that he has continuously practised the same in the United Kingdom or elsewhere for a period of not less than ten years immediately preceding the said prescribed day.

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