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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1884. 1789


Medical Registration.


misdemeanour , and shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to be imprisoned ,
with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years .

18. Any person who after the 3rd day of May, 1884 , wilfully or Penalty on
unregistered
falsely takes or uses in this Colony any name or title or addition , imply persons.
ing a qualification to practise medicine or surgery, or who not being
either registered under this Ordinance or entitled to the benefit of section
20 of this Ordinance practises for gain or professes to practise or publishes
his name as practising medicine or surgery or receives any payment as
practising medicine or surgery , shall be liable for each offence , on summary
conviction before a Police Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding one
hundred dollars .

19. All civil medical officers and all medical officers of Her Ma Civil, Army
andNavyMed
jesty's Army and Navy, respectively serving in Hongkong on full pay, ical Officers,
deemed
shall be deemed to be registered under this Ordinance. registered .

Persons actu
20. Any person actually practising medicine or surgery in the
ally practis
Colony at the date of the commencement of this Ordinance and objecting ing and ob
jecting to be
to be registered under its provisions who before the 3rd day of May, 1884 , registered.

satisfies the Colonial Secretary that he was so practising shall be deemed
to be a person entitled to the benefit of this section .

The Colonial Secretary shall publish a list of the names of all such
persons in the Gazette of the 3rd day of May , 1884 , and a copy of the
said Gazette shall be primâ facie evidence in all legal proceedings that
the persons therein specified are persons entitled to the benefit of this
section and the absence of the name of any person from such copy shall

be primâ facie evidence to the contrary.




Form A.

Persons qualified to practise medicine and surgery.


Nature of Date of
Name. Address.
qualification. qualification.