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Medical Practitioner's Ordinance 1867

5. The Medical Practitioners Ordinance 1867.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Persons not duly registered not to practice.

2. Persons not registered not to recover charges.

3. Penalty for fraudulent representation.

4. All medical officers of public institutions to be duly registered.

5. This Ordinance not to affect Chemists, &c.

6. Fines and penalties recoverable.

7. Ordinance to come into operation.

8. Title.


Whereas it is expedient that persons in the Province of Canterbury requiring medical aid or advice should be enabled to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners.

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Persons not duly registered not to practice.

After this Ordinance comes into operation it shall not be lawful for any person within the Province of Canterbury to pretend to be or take or use the name or title of Physician Doctor of Medicine Licenciate in Medicine and Surgery Master in Surgery Bachelor of Medicine Doctor Surgeon Medical or General Practitioner or Apothecary or Surgeon-Apothecary Accouncher or Licenciate or Practitioner in Midwifery or any other medical or surgical name or title unless registered under the Ordinance of the Legislative Council of New Munster entituled an “Ordinance to define the Qualifications and to provide for the remuneration in certain cases

of Medical Practitioners” and every unregistered person so offending shall upon summary conviction for any such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Fifty pounds.

2. Persons not registered not to recover charges.

After this Ordinance comes into operation no person who shall not be registered under the Ordinance of the Legislative Council of New Munster above recited shall be entitled to recover any charge for any medical or surgical advice or attendance or for the performance of any surgical operation or for any medicine which he shall have both prescribed and supplied unless he shall prove on the trial that he is registered under the New Munster Ordinance aforesaid.

3. Penalty for fraudulent representation.

If any person fraudulently or by false representations obtains any certificate as a duly qualified Medical Practitioner he shall upon summary conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six calendar months.

4. All medical officers of public institutions to be duly registered.

After this Ordinance comes into operation no person unless registered under the New Munster Ordinance aforesaid shall be appointed as a Physician Surgeon or other Medical Officer in any Hospital Infirmary Dispensary or Lying-in Hospital or in any Lunatic Asylum Gaol Penitentiary House of Correction House of Industry or other Public Institution for affording medical relief in sickness infirmity or old age or as a Medical Officer of Health and no certificate required by law to be signed by any Medical Practitioner or Medical Practitioners shall be valid unless all and every person or persons signing the same shall be registered under the before mentioned Ordinance of New Munster.

5. This Ordinance not to affect Chemists, &c.

Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prejudice or in any way to affect the lawful occupation trade or business of Chemists Druggists or Dentists.

6. Fines and penalties recoverable.

All fines and penalties imposed under this Ordinance shall be sued for and be recoverable in a summary way before any Resident Magistrate or Two Justices of the Peace.

7. Ordinance to come into operation.

This Ordinance shall come into operation on the First day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

8. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Medical Practitioners’ Ordinance 1867.



Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 2nd January

1866, and assented to by the Superintendent on the 3rd January 1867. It was disallowed NZG 1867 121p.


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