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1786 ORDINANCE No. 6 or 1884.


Medical Registration.


Registered 6. Every person registered under this Ordinance or entitled to the
persons
entitled to benefit of section 20 of this Ordinance, shall be entitled to practise medi
practise and
to demand cine and surgery in this Colony, and to demand and recover reasonable
charges.
charges for medical or surgical aid rendered by such person , and the
costs of medicines or surgical appliances supplied by him.

Unregistered 7. No person shall be entitled to recover in any action any charge
persons
cannot for any practice of medicine or surgery after the 3rd day of May, 1884 ,
recover
charges. by any person not either registered under this Ordinance or entitled to
the benefit of section 20 of this Ordinance.

Interpreta 8. The words " legally qualified medical practitioner, " or " duly
tion of terms .
qualified medical practitioner," or any words importing a person recog
nised 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
9. No certificate signed after the 3rd day of May, 1884 , which
unregistered
person void. certificate is, by any Act or Ordinance , required to be signed by a phy
sician , a surgeon , an apothecary, or any other medical or surgical practi
tioner, shall be valid unless the person signing it be registered under
this Ordinance.

The Medical 10. A board to be styled the Medical Board shall be established
Board.
under this Ordinance and shall consist of the Senior Military 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. Members 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 14 of this Ordinance as therein provided.

Production of 11. Any person claiming to be entitled under the Acts of the United
certain
papers Kingdom 21 and 22 Victoria , chapter 90 , and 31 and 32 Victoria , chapter
necessary
before regis 29, to be registered in Hongkong under this Ordinance, shall be so regis
tration.
tered upon producing to the Colonial 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