Hokitika Guardian & Evening Star WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ist, 1920. THE MASSEURS BILL.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1920, Page 2

Hokitika Guardian & Evening Star WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ist, 1920. THE MASSEURS BILL.

One of the Government measures now before Parliament to which a considerable amount- of opposition has been shown is the Masseurs Registration Rid which, if carried, is to come into for.-e on January Ist,, 1921. The measure provides that the 'lnspector-General of Hospitals shall keep in Ills office a book to be called the Register id Masseurs. Every person, on the payment of the prescribed fee, is entitled to be registered as a masseur under the Act, who satisfies the legist r-a|r (a) that he has received satisfactory training and is competent to perforin the duties of masseur, and lias been actively engaged as such for not less than three years during the five years immediatepreceding the commencement of the Act; or (b) he has received satisfactory training as a masseur and js the holdei of a certificate as a masseur granted after an examination in both theoretical and practical massage (including medical electricity, remedial exercises, and other brandies of physio-therapy) and recognised by the registrar pur suant to regulations in that behalf as a j sufficient certificate for the purpose ol | this Act; or (c) he has passed an ex j piiriation under this Act, in Iwth theoj ret-jcal and practical massage after a i course of: (i.) Not less than six months instruction in apntpmy and physiology and theoretical massage (including medical electricity, remedial exercises, and other branches of (physio-therapy) at a school for massage recognised for the purposes of this Act pursuant to regu lilt-ion in that behalf; and (ii.) not less than six months training in practical massage (including medical electricity remedial exercises, and other branches of physio-therapy) at a public hospital or other institution approved for the purposes of this Act, pursuant to regu. lations in that behalf (in the case oj persons registered under the Nurses Registration Act, 1908), or not less than twelve months’ such training in 1 any other case. No person is to ! .e ( registered as a under para- 1 ( graph (a) of the above, unless appli-V . cation for registration is made within two years after the commencement of the Act. The penalty for wrongfully procuring registration as a rnasseuro

a fine not exceeding £SO. Any person who is refused registration may appo il against the registrar’s decision to a board consisting of a Magistrate and two assessors. Any person who misleads the public by wrongfully representing himself ns a registered niasseure is made liable to a fine not exceeding £2O; and it is provided that unregistered persons are not to lie employed as niasseure jn hospitals after two years from the commencement of the Act.