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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1884.

Medical Registration.

No. 6 of 1884.

An Ordinance entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

[2nd April, 1884.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance shall commence and come into operation on the 5th day of April, 1884.

2. This Ordinance shall not operate to limit the right of Chinese practitioners to practice medicine or surgery or to receive demand or recover reasonable charges in respect of such practice.

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Commencement of Ordinance.

Ordinance not applicable to Chinese practitioners.

Colonial Secretary to keep register.

3. The Colonial Secretary shall keep a register of medical and surgical practitioners qualified to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony.

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

4. A copy of the register shall be published by the Colonial Secretary in the Gazette of the 3rd day of May, 1884; 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 3rd day of May.

Any copy of the Gazette containing the most recent copy of the register shall be prima facie evidence in all legal proceedings that the persons therein specified are registered under this Ordinance; and the absence of the name of any person from such copy shall be prima facie evidence that such person is not registered under this Ordinance.

5. The Colonial Secretary shall keep the register correct in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, and make from time to time 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 registered 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.

Alterations may be made in the register.

register to be published in the Gazette.

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