MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS’ ACT

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 October 1901, Page 3

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS’ ACT

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Wellington, This Day. The Medical Practitioners’ Bill, which Ward is introducing, provides for an association of registered medical practitioners for New Zealand and management thereof by a Medical Council consisting of two registered medical practitioners for each district to be appointed by the Governor and elected by registered medical practitioners in each district respectively. The elected members are to hold office for three years and the Council at its first meeting is to appoint a President to hold office for that term.

The Council also will appoint a paid registrar and secretary. A New Zealand medical register is to be kept. The Council must be satisfied that the person claiming qualification is entitled to registration, and any entry proved to have been fraudulently or incorrectly made may be removed. Clause 22 enacts that no person shall be entitled to recover any charge in any court of law for any medical or social advice for attendance or for performance and operation or for any medicine which has been prescribed and supplied unless he proves that he is registered.under the Act.

Penalties are provided for fraudulently procuring registration and the improper use of the medical title.

Power is given the Council to borrow for acquiring land for offices and in erecting and furnishing same. The Act is not to affect chemists, druggists, etc. The Medical Practitioners’ Registration Act, 1869, is to be repealed.