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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1884 . 1785


Medical Registration.


No. 6 of 1884.

An Ordinance entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

[ 2nd April , 1884. ]

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

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

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

3. The Colonial Secretary shall keep a register of medical and Colonial
Secretary to
surgical practitioners qualified to practise medicine and surgery in this keep register.
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 Copy of
register to be
Secretary in the Gazette of the 3rd day of May, 1884 ; and thereafter a published in
the Gazette .
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 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 accord Alterations
may be made
ance with the provisions of this Ordinance, and make from time to time in the re
gister.
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.