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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    10 ViPToniA, No. 17. Prcainlilo. 2 Vio. No. 22 and 0 Vic. No. 12. Foreitn' Medical Practitioners j)ro])orly ntiali- tied ghaii be deemed leijally (|ualilicd Medical Pnictitioners. What shall be deemed a quorum of the Medical Hoard. Persons forging or obtaining a certificate under false reiiresenta- tions liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour. Persons forging or obtaining a certificate under false representa- tions guilty of a misdemeanour. This Act to be construed with Acts 2 Vic. No. 22 and 9 Vic. No. 12. Title of Act. An Act to provide for tlie Kegistration of Tje^ally Qualified Medical Practitioners. [Assented to 12 October, 1855.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend tlie law relating to the qualification of Medical Witnesses on Cor ners’ Inquests and other Inquiries Be it therefore enacted by Ilis Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :— 1. Anj^ person who shall prove to the satisfaction of the New South Wales Medical Board or a quorum thereof that he has passed through a regular course of medical study of not loss than three years’ duration in a School of Medicine and that he has received after due examination from the University of Sydney or from some University College or other body duly recognised for that purpose in the country to which sucli University College or other body may belong a diploma degree or license entitling him to practice medicine in that country shall be deemed to be a legally qualified Medical Practitioner within the moaning of the Acts passed in the second and ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty and numbered respectively twenty-two and twelve and shall be entitled to a certificate as such from the said Board. 2. A quorum of the Board under the recited Acts shall for the future consist of not less than three Members thereof and in case of the absence of the President of the said Board it shall be competent for any other Member to preside for the time being. 3. It shall be lawful for the said Board (or a quorum thereof) to examine any jierson w'ho may present himself for examination or any witness w^ho may bo produced before them and to take a solemn declaration from such person or witness and if any person shall wilfully knowingly and corruptly make any false statement upon such examination or in such declaration or shall utter or attempt to utter or put off as true before the said Board (or a quorum thereof) any false forged or counterfeit diploma degree license certificate or other document or writing such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and being thereof duly convicted shall be liable to imprisonment with or w'itliout hard labor for any period not exceeding three years. 4. If any person fraudulently or by false representations obtain any certificate as a duly qualified Medical Practitioner under the provisions of this Act or the said recited Acts or shall forge alter or counterfeit any such certificate or shall utter or use any such forged certificate knowing the same respectively to have been forged or shall falsely advertise or publish himself as having obtained such certificate every person guilty of any or either of the said offences shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour and being thereof duly convicted shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding three years. 5. This Act shall so far as is consistent -with the contents and subject matter thereof be taken as part of and construed with the said recited Acts. 6. This Act may be cited as “ The Medical Practitioners’ Act of 185t5.” S3'dncy : Georffc Stephen Chapman, Actinjf Government Printer.—1891. [Price, 6ci.]