The medical practitioner's legal guide, or, laws relating to the medical profession. / by Hugh Weightman.

  • Weightman, Hugh.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The medical practitioner's legal guide, or, laws relating to the medical profession. / by Hugh Weightman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    in that behalf by the said corporation, and for the time being in force, to be presi- dent of the said corporation, but the retiring president shall always be capable of being re-elected, and every presidt^nt sliall remain in office until the actual election of a new president; or in case of the death, resignation, or other avoidance of any such president befi^re the expiration of his year of office, the said fellows shall, at a meeting to be holden by them for that purpose, as soon as conveniently may be (of which due notice shall be yiven), elect one other of the fellows of the said corporation in such manner as aforesaid to be president for tlie remainder of the ye;ir in which such deatii, resignation, or otiier avoidance shall happen, and until such election the duties of president shall be performed by the senior censor for the time being. ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO VICTORIA REGIN^. CAP. XXIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to Medical Practitioners in the Colonies. [29th May 18G8.] HE RE AS by the thirty-first section of the Medical Act, passed in the Session holden in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of Her Majesty, chapter ninety, it is enacted as follows : Every person registered under this Act shall be entitled, according to his qualification or qualifications, to practise medicine or surgery, or medicine and surgery, as the case may be, in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, and to demand and recover in any court of law, with full costs of suit, reasonable charges for professional aid, advice, and visits, and the cost of any medicines or other medical or surgical appliances rendered or supplied by him to his patients : And whereas it is expedient to amend the said enactment: Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : Short Title. 1. This Act may be cited as The Medical Act Amendment Act, 1868. Interpretation of A ct. 2. The term colony shall in this Act include all of Her Majesty's possessions abroad in which there shall exist a legislature as herein-after defined, except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The term colonial legislature shall signify the authority other than the Impel ial Parliament or Her Majesty in Council competent to make laws for any colony. Power to Colonial Legislatures to enforce Registration of Persons registered under the Medical Act. 3. Every colonial legislature shall have full power from time to time to make laws for the purpose of enforcing the registration within its jurisdiction of persons who have been registered under the Medical Act, anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided, however, that any person who has been duly registered under the Medical Act shall be entitled to be registered in any colony,°upon payment of the fees (if any) required for such registration, and upon proof, in such manner as the said colonial legislature shall direct, of his registra- tion under the said Act.