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690 6 of 1881. ] MEDICAL REGISTRATION .

Registeret
persons
6. Every person registered under this ordinance or entitled
entitlel to to the benefit of section 20 of this ordinance, shall be entitled
practise and
to demand to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony, and to demand
charges. and recover reasonable charges for medical or surgical aid rend
ered by such person, and the costs of medicines or surgical
appliances supplied by him .
Unregistered
persons
17. No person shall be entitled to recover in any action any
cannot
recover
charge for any practice of medicine or surgery after the 3rd day
charges. of May, 1884, by any person not either registered under this
ordinance or entitled to the benefit of section 20 of this ordi
nance .

Interpreta
tion of terms. 8. The worils " legally qualified medical practitioner,” or
“ duly qualified medical practitioner," or any words importing
a persou l'ecognised at law as a practitioner in medicine or
surgery, or as any kind of a member of the medical profession ,
where used in any ordinance, shall be construed to mean a
practitioner registered under this ordinance.
Certificate of
unregistered 9. No certificate signed after the 3rd day of May; 18811984 ,
person void . which certificate is , by any act or ordinance, required to be
signed by a physician, a surgeon, an apothecary, or any other
medical or surgical practitioner, shall be valid unless the person
signing it be registered under this ordinance.
The Medical
Board .
10. A board to be stylel the Medical Boaril shall be estab)
Jished under this or linance and shall consist of the Senior Mili
tary and Naval Medical Officers for the time being in the Colony,
and any two registered medical practitioners and any three
other fit persons willing to accept the appointment who may
be from time to time thereto appointed by the Governor. Mem
bers appointed by the Governor shall hold office for 3 years and
no longer unless re-appointed by the Governor and may be
removed by the Governor at pleasure. Three members of the
board shall form a quorum .
The board shall consider and report upon all matters laid
before it under sections 13 or lt of this ordinance as therein
provided .
Production of
certain
11. Any person claiming to be entitled under the Acts of the
papers United Kingdom 21 and 22 Victoria, chapter 90, and 31 and
necessary
before regis 32 Victoria, chapter 29 , to be registered in Hongkong under
tration , this ordinance, shall be so registered upon producing to the
('olonial Secretary, in proof of his title thereto, a declaration,
according to the form B in the schedule to this ordinance, made
by him before any Justice of the Peace,and impressed with a stamp
for duty, by way of registration fee, of $5 : provided that the
name of such person appears in “ The Medical Register" then