THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1886. 835
PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
A.D. 1886.
Council.
19. If at any time it appears to the Privy Council that the General Council has Default of General failed to secure the maintenance of a sufficient standard of proficiency at any qualifying xaminations, or that occasion has arisen for the General Council to appoint assistant Ixaminers under this Act for the purpose of examinations held by any medical corpo- ation, or to exercise any power or perform any duty or do any act or thing vested in fr imposed on or authorised to be done by the General Council under the Medical Acts this Act, the Privy Council may notify their opinion to the General Council; and if the General Council fail to comply with any directions of the Privy Council relating to such notification, the privy Council may themselves give effect to such directions, and or that purpose may exercise any power or do any act or things vested in or authorised to be done by the General Council, and may of their own motion do any act or thing which, under the Medical Acts or this Act, they are authorised to do in pursuance of a
presentation or suggestion from the General Council.
20. The diploma of member of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians in addition to eland, and the degree of Master in Obstetrics of any university in the United King-qualifications under Tom, shall be deemed to be added to the qualifications described in Schedule A. to the Medical Act, 1858.
21 & 22 c. 90.
science:
21. Every registered medical practioner to whom a diploma for proficiency in Registration of anitary science, public health, or state medicine, has after special examination been diplome in sanitary granted by any collége, or faculty of physicians or surgeons or university in the United Kingdom, or by any such bodies acting in combination, shall, if such diploma appears to the Privy Council or to the General Council to deserve recognition in the medical register, be entitled, on payment of such fee as the General Council may appoint, to have such diploma entered in the said register, in addition to any other diploma or di-
omas in respect of which he is registered.
Act
of Privy Council.
22.-(1.) All powers vested in the Privy Council by the Medical Acts or this Exercise of powers may be exercised by any two or more of the Lords and others of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.
(2.) Any act of the Privy Council under the Medical Acts or this Act shall be sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Council, and every order and act signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Council shall be deemed to have been duly made and done by the Privy Council, and ery instrument so signed shall be received in evidence in all courts and proceedings without proof of the authority or signature of the Clerk of the Council, or other proof.
23. The following copies of any orders made in pursuance of the Medical Acts or Evidence of orders. this Act, or the Dentists Act, 1878, shall be evidence; that is to say,
(1.) Any copy purporting to be printed by the Queen's printer, or by any other
printer in pursuance of an authority given by the General Council:
(2.) Any copy of an order certified to be a true copy by the registrar of the General Council, or by any other person appointed by the General Council either in addition to or in exclusion of the registrar to certify such orders.
Saving Clauses.
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practitioners.
24. This Act shall not increase or diminish the privileges in respect of his practice saving as to practice of any person who, on the day preceding the appointed day, is a registered medical of existing practitioner, and such person shall be entitled on and after the said appointed day to practise, in pursuance of the qualification possessed by him before the said appointed day, in medicine, surgery, and midwifery, or any of them, or any branch of medicine or surgery, according as he was entitled to practise the same before the said appointed day, but not further or otherwise.
law.
25. Any person who at the time of the repeal of any enactment repealed by this Saving as to local Act was, in pursuance of such enactment, legally entitled to practise as a medical practitioner in any colony or part of Her Majesty's dominions other than the United Kingdom, shall after the date of such repeal continue to be so entitled if he would have been entitled if no such repeal had taken place.
Dentists.
& 42 Vict. c. 33.
26. It is hereby declared that the words "title, addition, or description," where Provisions as to 41 used in the Dentists Act, 1878, include any title, addition to a name, designation, or Jescription, whether expressed in words or by letters, or partly in one way and partly in the other.
There shall be repealed so much of section four of the Dentists Act, 1878, as provides that a prosecution for any of the offences above in that Act mentioned shall not be instituted by a private person, except with the consent of the General Council or of a branch council, and a prosecution for any such offences may be instituted by a private person accordingly.
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