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CAP. 162]

Midwives Registration

[1988 Ed.

Prohibition of employment by registered midwives of unregistered substitutes

21. Any registered midwife who knowingly employs as her substitute any woman who is not a registered midwife shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

Requirements as to notice of intention to practise

22. (1) Every registered midwife, before holding herself out as a practis- ing midwife or commencing to practise as a midwife or, having ceased to practise as a midwife for any period exceeding 5 years, before recommencing so to practise shall-

(a) give notice in writing to the secretary of her intention so to do, and (b) pay the prescribed fee,

and shall thereafter give a like notice and pay a like fee in the month of January in each year during which she continues to practise.

(2) If any registered midwife omits to give notice as required by subsec- tion (1), or knowingly makes or causes or procures any other person to make a false statement in any such notice, she shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500.

(3) Any registered midwife who has ceased to practise as a midwife for any period exceeding 5 years may be prohibited by the Board from recommenc- ing to practise until she has undergone such course of instruction or training or successfully proved her competency in midwifery by such examination conduc- ted by examiners appointed by the Board as the Board, in its discretion, may consider appropriate.

(4) Any woman who acts in contravention of a prohibition imposed under subsection (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months, unless she proves that she acted in a case of emergency.

(5) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any registered midwife employed in the service of the Government or in the service of any institution prescribed for the purposes of this section by regulations. (Amended, 61 of 1969, s. 5)

PART VI

REGULATIONS, DIRECTIONS AND EXEMPTIONS

Regulations

23. The Governor in Council may by regulation provide for-

(a) the procedure to be adopted at meetings of the Board;

(b) the duties of the legal adviser to the Board;

(c) the nature of the particulars to be entered in the register and the mode

in which it shall be kept;

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