Medical witnesses.

  • New South Wales.
Date:
[1891]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical witnesses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    VroToniA, No. 8. Preamble. 2 Vic. No. 22. 1 Vic. No. 3. Superiiitemlent to appoint a Medical Board for the district of Port Phillip and remove ali or any of them when- ever ho may think fit. An Act to amend the Act, passed in the second year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to define the qualifications of Medical Witnesses at Coroners’ Inquests and Inquiries held before Justices of the Peace in the Colony of New South Wales. [Assented to 23 August, 1844.] VITIIEREAS by an Act passed in tlie second year of the reign ▼ » of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled An Act to define the qualifications of Medical Witnesses at Coroners’ Inquests and Inquiries held before Justices of the Peace in the Colony of New South Wales it is enacted That no person from and after the first day of January then next ensuing shall for the purposes of a certain Act therein recited and passed in the same session intituled An Act to provide for the attendance of Medical Witnesses at Coroners’ Inquests and Inquiries held before Justices of the Peace be deemed a legally qualified Medical Practitioner unless such person should have proved to the satisfaction of the President and any other member of a Medical Board thereinafter provided to be appointed that he is a Doctor or Bachelor of l\Iedicine of some University or a Physician or Surgeon licensed or admitted as such by some College of Physicians or Surgeons in Great Britain or Ireland or a Member of the Company of Apothecaries of London or who is or has been a Medical Officer duly appointed and confirmed of Her Majesty’s sea or land service and by the said Act it is further enacted That it should be lawful for the Governor or acting Governor of the Colony of New South AVales for the time being to appoint a Committee consisting of at least three Members being of the Medical Profession one of whom should be nominated President together with a Secretary under the style and description of “The New South Wales Medical Board’’ with power for the said Governor or Acting Governor to remove the said Members or any of them and to appoint others in their place and that any person desirous of being declared a “ legally qualified Medical Practitioner ” as aforesaid shall submit his degree diploma or other certificate or proof of his being so duly qualified for the examination and approval of the said Medical Board and shall obtain from the said Medical Board a certificate of his being so qualified and whereas a Medical Board has been appointed in Sydney under the said recited Act but considerable inconvenience has been experienced by persons residing in the District of Port Phillip desirous of submitting their diplomas or certificates to the said Board by reason of the distance from Sydney Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South AVales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That it shall and may be lawful for His Honor the Superintendent of Port Phillip for the time being to appoint at Melbourne in the District of Port Phillip a Committee consisting of at least three Members being of the Medical Profession one of whom shall be nominated President under the style and description of “ The Medical Board for the District of Port Phillip ” and it shall be lawful