in medical register. Medical Act, 1886. Council, and the Privy Council, after communication with the General Council, may dismiss the appeal or may order the General Council to enter the name of the appellant on the register: (4.) A person may, if so entitled under this Act, be registered both as a colonial and a foreign practitioner. Separate list 14. The medical register shall contain a separate list of of colonial and foreign the names and addresses of the colonial practitioners, and practitioners also a separate list of the names and addresses of the foreign practitioners registered under this Act; each list shall be made out alphabetically according to the surnames; and the provisions of the Medical Act, 1858, relating to persons registered under that Act, and relating to the medical register and to offences in respect thereof, shall, so far as may be, apply in the case of colonial and foreign practitioners registered under this Act and of the said list of those practitioners, in the same way as such provisions. apply in the case of persons registered under the said Medical Act, 1858, and of the register as kept under that Act. Medical nial and titioners. 15. On and after the appointed day it shall be lawful titles of colo- for any registered medical practitioner who being on the foreign prac- list of colonial or of foreign practitioners is on that day in possession of or thereafter obtains any recognized colonial or foreign medical diploma granted in a British possession or foreign country to which this Act applies to cause a description of such diploma to be added to his name in the medical register. Registra tion of foreign 16. On and after the appointed day it shall be lawful degrees held for any registered medical practitioner who, being on the by registered medical register by virtue of English, Scotch or Irish dical prac qualifications, is in possession of a foreign degree in medi titioners. Power of in Council to cine, to cause a description of such foreign medical degree to be added to his name as an additional title in the medical register, provided he shall satisfy the General Council that he obtained such degree after proper examination and prior to the passing of this Act. 17. (1.) Her Majesty may, from time to time, by Order in Her Majesty Council declare that this part of this Act shall be deemed define colo. on and after a day to be named in such Order to apply to any nies and British possession or foreign country which in the opinion tries to which of Her Majesty affords to the registered medical practithis part of the tioners of the United Kingdom such privileges of practising Act applies. in the said British possession or foreign country as to Her foreign coun Medical Act, 1886. Majesty may seem just; and from and after the day named in such Order in Council such British possession or foreign country shall be deemed to be a British possession or foreign country to which this Act applies within the meaning of this part thereof; but until such Order in Council has been made in respect of any British possession or foreign country, this part of this Act shall not be deemed to apply to any such possession or country; and the expression "the prescribed day" as used in this part of this Act means, as respects any British possession or foreign country, the day on and after which this part of this Act is declared by Order in Council to apply to such British possession or foreign country. (2.) Her Majesty may, from time to time, by Order in Council revoke and renew any order made in pursuance of this section; and on the revocation of such order as respects any British possession or foreign country, such possession or foreign country shall cease to be a possession or country to which this part of this Act applies, without prejudice nevertheless to the right of any persons whose names have been already entered on the register. 18. Nothing in the Medical Act, 1858, shall prevent a Amendment of 21 & 22 V., person holding a medical diploma entitling him to practice c. 90, s. 36, As medicine or surgery in a British possession to which this to medical Act applies from holding an appointment as a medical officers in officer in any vessel registered in that possession. PART III. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. ships. General 19. If at any time it appears to the Privy Council that Default of the General Council has failed to secure the maintenance of a sufficient standard of proficiency at any qualifying examinations, or that occasion has arisen for the General Council to appoint assistant examiners under this Act, for the purpose of examinations held by any medical corporation, or to exercise any power or perform any duty or do any act or thing vested in or imposed on or authorized to be done by the General Council under the Medical Acts or this Act, the Privy Council may notify their opinion to the General Council; and if the General Council fail to comply with any directions of the Privy Council relating to such notification, the Privy Council may themselves give effect to such directions, and for that purpose may exercise any power or do any act or thing vested in or authorized to be done by the General Council, and may of their own motion do any Addition to qualifications Medical Act, 1886. act or thing which, under the Medical Acts or this Act they are authorized to do in pursuance of a representation or suggestion from the General Council.. 20. The diploma of member of the King's and Queen's under 21 & 22 College of Physicians in Ireland, and the degree of Master in Obstetrics of any university in the United Kingdom, shall be deemed to be added to the qualifications described in Schedule A to the Medical Act, 1858. V., c. 90. Registration of diploma in sanitary science. Exercise of powers of Privy Coun cil. Evidence of orders. 21. Every registered medical practitioner to whom a diploma for proficiency in sanitary science, public health, or state medicine, has after special examination been granted by any college or faculty of physicians or surgeons or university in the United Kingdom, or by any such bodies acting in combination, shall, if such diploma appears to the Privy Council or to the General Council, to deserve recognition in the medical register, be entitled, on payment of such fee as the General Council may appoint, to have such diploma entered in the said register, in addition to any other diploma or diplomas in respect of which he is registered. 22. (1.) All powers vested in the Privy Council by the Medical Acts or this Act may be exercised by any two or more of the Lords and others of Her Majesty's most honorable Privy Council: (2.) Any act of the Privy Council under the Medical Acts or this Act shall be sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the clerk of the council, and every order and act signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the clerk of the council shall be deemed to have been duly made and done by the Privy Council, and every instrument so signed shall be received in evidence in all courts and proceedings without proof of the authority or signature of the clerk of the council or other proof. 23. The following copies of any orders made in pursuance of the Medical Acts or this Act, or the Dentists Act, 1878, shall be evidence, that is to say : (1.) Any copy purporting to be printed by the Queen's printer, or by any other printer in pursuance of an authority given by the General Council; (2.) Any copy of an order certified to be a true copy by the registrar of the General Council, or by any other person appointed by the General Council either in addition to or in exclusion of the registrar to certify such orders. Medicial Act, 1886. Saving Clauses. 24. This Act shall not increase or diminish the privileges Saving as to in respect of his practice of any person who, on the day pre- practice of ceding the appointed day, is a registered medical practi- titioners. tioner; and such person shall be entitled on and after the said appointed day to practise, in pursuance of the qualification possessed by him before the said appointed day, in medicine, surgery, and midwifery, or any of them or any branch of medicine or surgery, according as he was entitled to practise the same before the said appointed day, but not further or otherwise. local law. 25. Any person who, at the time of the repeal of any Saving as to enactment repealed by this Act, was, in pursuance of such enactment, legally entitled to practise as a medical practitioner in any colony or part of Her Majesty's dominions other than the United Kingdom, shall, after the date of such repeal, continue to be so entitled if he would have been entitled if no such repeal had taken place. Dentists. c. 33. 26. It is hereby declared that the words " title, addition, Provisions as or description," where used in the Dentists Act, 1878, in- to 41 & 42 V, clude any title, addition to a name, designation, or description, whether expressed in words or by letters, or partly in one way and partly in the other; There shall be repealed so much of section four of the Dentists Act, 1878, as provides that a prosecution for any of the offences above in that Act mentioned shall not be instituted by a private person, except with the consent of the General Council or of a branch council, and a prosecution. for any such offences may be instituted by a private person accordingly ; Notwithstanding anything in section five of the Dentists Act, 1878, the rights of any person registered under the Dentists Act. 1878, to practise dentistry or dental surgery in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions other than the United Kingdom shall be subject to any local law in force in that part; It shall be lawful for Her Majesty at any time after the said appointed day, to declare by Order in Council that section twenty-eight of the said Dentists Act, 1878, shall be in force on and after a day to be named in such order, but in the meantime and until such order has been made, and Definitions. Medical Act, 1886. before such day as last aforesaid, such section shall not be deemed to be in force; Save as in this Act mentioned the Dentists Act, 1878, shall not be affected by this Act. Definitions. 27. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,The expression "part of the United Kingdom" means, according to circumstances, England, Scotland, or Ireland: The expression "British possession" means any part of Her Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, but inclusive of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands; and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under one central legislature are for the purposes of this definition deemed to be one British possession: The expression "local law" means an Act or Ordinance. passed by the legislature of a British possession: The expression " the appointed day" means the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, or such other day in June, one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven, as may be appointed by the Privy Council : The expression "medical corporation" means any body in the United Kingdom, other than a university, for the time being competent to grant a diploma or diplomas conferring on the holder thereof, if he has passed a qualifying examination, the right of registration under the Medical Acts: The expression "registered medical practitioner," means any person for the time being registered under the medical Acts: The word" diploma " means any diploma, degree, a fellowship, membership, licence, authority to practise, letters, testimonial, certificate, or other status or document granted by any university, corporation, college, or other body, or by any departments of or persons acting under the authority of the Government of any country or place within or without Her Majesty's dominions: The expression "medical diploma" means a diploma granted in respect of medicine, surgery, and midwifery, or any of them, or any branch of medicine or surgery: |