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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1886.

A.D. 1886.

practitioner when

13.-(1.) The medical diploma or diplomas granted in a British possession c Medical diploma of foreign country to which this Act applies, which is or are to be deemed such recognised colonial and foreign colonial or foreign medical diploma or diplomas as is or are required for the purposes of this Act, shall be such medical diploma or diplomas as may be recognised for the time being by the General Council as furnishing a sufficient guarantee of the possession of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery.

deemed to be

recognised.

Separate list of

practitioners in medical register.

(2.) Where the General Council have refused to recognise as aforesaid any colonial or foreign medical diploma, the Privy Council, on application being made to them may, if they think fit, after considering such application, and after communication with the General Council, order the General Council to recognise the said diploma, and such order shall be duly obeyed.

(3.) If a person is refused registration as a colonial or foreign practitioner on any other ground than that the medical diploma or diplomas held by such person is or are not such recognised medical diploma or diplomas as above defined, the registrar of th General Council, shall, if required, state in writing the reason for such refusal, and the person so refused registration may appeal to the Privy Council, and the Privy Council after communication with the General Council, may dismiss the appeal or may order the General Council to enter the name of the appellant on the register.

(4.) A person may, if so entitled under this Act, be registered both as a colonial and a foreign practitioner.

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14. The medical register shall contain a separate list of the names and addresses colonial and foreign of the colonial practitioners, and also a separate list of the names and addresses of the foreign practitioners registered under this Act; each list shall be made out alphabeti- cally according to the surnames; and the provisions of the Medical Act, 1858, relating to persons registered under that Act, and relating to the medical register and th offences in respect thereof, shall, so far as may be, apply in the case of colonial and foreign practitioners, registered under this Act and of the said lists of those practitioners, in the same way as such provisions apply in the case of persons registered under the said Medical Act, 1858, and of the register as kept under that Act.

Medical titles of

practitioners.

15. On and after the appointed day it shall be lawful for any registered medical colonial and foreign practitioner who being on the list of colonial or of foreign practitioners is on that day

in possession of or thereafter obtains any recognised colonial or foreign medical diplo ma granted in a British possession or foreign country to which this Act applies t cause a description of such diploma to be added to his name in the medical register.

Registration of foreign degrees held by registered medical practitioners.

Power of Her

Majesty in Council to define colonies

and foreign

countries to which

applies.

16. On and after the appointed day it shall be lawful for any registered medical practitioner who, being on the medical register by virtue of English, Scotch, or Irish qualifications, is in possession of a foreign degree in medicine, to cause a description of such foreign medical degree to be added to his name as an additional title in the medic 1 register, provided he shall satisfy the General Council that he obtained such degree after

proper examination and prior to the passing of this Act.

17. (1.) Her Majesty may from time to time by Order in Council declare that this part of this Act shall be deemed on and after a day to be named in such Order to apply to any British possession or foreign country which in the opinion of Her Majesty this part of the Act affords to the registered medical practitioners of the United Kingdom such privileges of practising in the said British possession or foreign country as to Her Majesty may scem just; and from and after the day named in such Order in Council such British possession or foreign country shall be deemed to be a British possession or foreign country to which this Act applies within the meaning of this part thereof; but until such Order in Council has been made in respect of any British possession or foreign country, this part of this Act shall not be deemed to apply to any such possession or country; and the expression "the prescribed day" as used in this part of this Act means, as respects any British possession or foreign country, the day on and after which this part of this Act is declared by Order in Council to apply to such British possession or foreign country.

Amendment of 21 &

22 Vict. c. 90. s. 36.,

(2.) Her Majesty may from time to time by Order in Council revoke and renew any Order made in pursuance of this section; and on the revocation of such Order respects any British possession or foreign country, such possession or foreign country shall cease to be a possession or country to which this part of this Act applies, without prejudice nevertheless to the right of any persons whose names have been already en tered on the register.

18. Nothing in the Medical Act, 1858, shall prevent a person holding a medical as to medical officers diploma entitling him to practise medicine or surgery in a British possession to which this Act applies from holding an appointment as a medical officer in any vessel regis- tered in that possession.

in ships.