An Ordinance to establish a Government Medical Service and to enforce the registration of practitioners in medicine or surgery.
- British Guiana.
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An Ordinance to establish a Government Medical Service and to enforce the registration of practitioners in medicine or surgery. 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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![* A.D. 1886.] The Secretary as soon as may be practicable after the passing of this Ordinance shall issue a notice in the Official Gazette stating the names and qualifications of all persons so placed on the Eegister. ✓ The Secretary in the month of February in each year shall transmit to the Government Secretary for publication in the Official Gazette, a return of the names and qualifications of all persons then registered. 41. Where any person who is not duly licensed to practise Medicine or Surgery when this Ordinance comes into operation, desires to be registered under this Ordinance he shall make applica- tion to the Secretary and shall submit such evidence as may be necessary to establish that lie is entitled to be so registered. Procedure where ap- plication is made to register. The Secretary shall forthwith lay such application before the Medical Board and the Board if satisfied that such person is entitled to be registered shall direct the Secretary to register such person. The Secretary shall thereupon register such person and issue notice thereof in the Official Gazette. If the Medical Board decline to direct the Secretary to regis- ter any person who applies to be registered, such person may appeal to the Governor, and if it is made to appear to the Governor that such person is entitled to be registered under this Ordinance the Governor may direct that such person shall be registered. 42. No person appointed after the passing of this Ordinance Unregis- shall hold anv office as a Government Medical Officer who is not rogisiGrcd unclor this OrdiiiciiicG. hold office 43. After the 1st day of January, 1887, no certificate required Certificate by anv law now in force or hereafter to be passed from any medical of practitioner shall be valid unless the person signing the same be tered prac. registered under this Ordinance. tition^. 44. After the 1st day of January, 1887, any words importing a Meaning person recognised by law as a medical practitioner when used in any Ordinance shall be construed to mean a person registered under this practitioner Ordinance. 45. Every person registered under this Ordinance shall be Registered entitled to demand and recover with full costs of suit reasonable P^^actitioner charges for professional aid, advice and visits, and the cost of any fggj medicines or other medical or surgical appliances rendered or sup- plied by him to his patients : Provided that as regards any Govern- ment Medical Officer all such charges shall be in accordance with any scale of fees wliich may be authorized by any regulation made by the Governor and Court of Policy. 46. After the 1st day of January, 1887, no person shall be enti- Person-not tied to recover any charge in any Court for any IMedical or Surgical registered](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22334312_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
