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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD MARCH, 1883.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 75..

LEGISLATION.

The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council, held on the 27th instant, is published for general information.

By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 28th February, 1883.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Medical Registration Or- dinance, 1883.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as fol-

lows:-

1. This Ordinance shall commence and come into opera- tion on the

day of

2. This Ordinance shall not apply to Chinese practitioners confining their practice exclusively to Chinese patients and shall not operate to limit the right of such persons to prac- tice medicine or surgery.

3. The Colonial Secretary shall keep a Register of Me- dical and Surgical Practitioners' qualified to practice medi- cine and surgery in this Colony.

The Register shall be, as nearly as may be, according to form A in the schedule to this Ordinance.

day of

4. A copy of the Register shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the Gazette as soon as may be after the

; and thereafter a copy of the Register, as it stands at any such time, shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the first Gazette issued after every succeeding first of

Any copy of the Gazette containing the most recent copy of the Register shall be primâ facie evidence in all legal proceedings that the persons therein specified are registered under this Ordinance; aud the absence of the name of any person from such copy shall be primâ facie evidence that such persou is not registered under this Ordinance,

5. The Colonial Secretary shall keep the Register cor- rect in accordance with the provisions of this Ördinance, and make from time to tinfe the necessary alterations in the addresses or qualifications of the persons registered under this Ordinance, and cancel in the Register the names of all persons registered under this Ordinance who have died or ceased to be qualified.

The Colonial Secretary may write a letter to any regis- tered person addressed to him according to his address in the Register to inquire whether he has changed his residence, and if he does not receive an answer to such letter within six months after the sending thereof, he may cancel in the Register the name of such person.

6. Every person registered under this Ordinance shall be entitled to practice medicine and surgery in this Colony, and to demand and recover reasonable charges for medical or surgical aid rendered by such person, and the costs of medicines or surgical appliances supplied by him.

7. No person shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge for any practice of medicine or surgery by any person not registered under this Ordinance.

8. The words "legally qualified Medical Practitioner," or "duly qualified Medical Practitioner," or any words importing a person recognised at law as a Practitioner in medicine or surgery, or as any kind of a member of the medical profes- sion, where used in any Ordinance, shall be construed to mean a Practitioner registered under this Ordinance.

9. No certificate signed after the passing of this Ordi- nance, which certificate is, by any Act or Ordinance, re- quired to be signed by a physician, a surgeon, an apothe- cary, or any other Medical or Surgical Practitioner, shall be valid unless the person signing it be registered under this Ordinance.

10. A board to be styled "The Medical Board,” shall be established under this Ordinance, and shall consist of any three registered Practitioners willing to accept the appoint- ment, who may be thereto appointed by the Governor.

ARATHIOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.