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MEDICAL REGISTRATION . ( 6 of 1881.)

No. 6 OF 1887.

An Ordinance entitled The Medical Registration Ordi
nance , 1881.
[ 2nd April, 1884. ]
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1. This ordinance shall commence and come into operation Commence
ment of
on the 5th day of April, 1881. ordinance .

2. This ordinance shall not operate to limit the right of Ordinance
Chinese practitioners to practice medicine or surgery or to notapplicable
receive demand or recover reasonable charges in respect of such practitioners.
practice.
3. The Colonial Secretary shall keep a register of medical Colonial
Secretary
and surgical practitioners qualified to practise medicine and keep to
register.
surgery in this Colony.
The register shall be, as nearly as may be, according to form
wl in the schedule to this ordinance.

4. A copy of the register shall be published by the Colonial Copy of
Secretary in the Gazette of the 3rd day of May, 1881 ; and registertobe
thereafter a copy of the register, as it stands at any such time, theGazette.
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 primâ 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 primâ facie evidence that such person is not
registered under this ordinance.
5. The Colonial Secretary shall keep the register correct in Alterations
accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, and make may bemade
from time to time the necessary alterations in the addresses or gister.
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 withinsix months after the
sending thereof, he may cancel in the register the name of such
person .