MEDICAL BOARD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2423, 31 March 1915, Page 6

MEDICAL BOARD

TO MEET TO-DAF. • The newly-appointed Medical Board. Set up under the Medical Practitioners Act of last session, which came, into force on March 1, is to meet to-day. ilio main object of this Board is to teupervise the registration of medical practitioners in AW .Zealand, and so bring into conformity with the rest of the civilised world a formal and official form of registration. The constitution of the Board is made np of seven members, of whom the InspectorGeneral of Hospitals (now Dr. Valintine) shall be one. Tlio remaining six members are appointed by tlio Governor. A "registered medical practitioner will, for the future, mean a medical practitioner registered under the now Act, and all applications for registration must be forwarded to the •Registrar-General, who_will submit them to Board. One important provi«io» of the A.ct, which will compel every medical man with the necessary qualifications to apply lor registration, as that only a medical practitioner registered tinder the Act can sue for fees; further, any person commits an offence and is liable to a fine of £5 lor each day during which the oflcncc continues, who, not being registered under this Act, practices modicinc or surgery in. any of its lirancbcs