Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act 1915 (NSW)

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 33, 1915.

An Act to amend t h e Medical Practitioners Act,

1912.      [Assented to , 10th November, 1915.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South	BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­
"Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : —

1. This Act may be cited as the "Medical Prac­

titioners (Amendment) Act, 1915."

2 . Section four of the Medical Practitioners Act,

1912, is repealed and the following section is substituted
therefor:—

4. The following persons and no others shall, for the purposes of the Coroner's Act, 1898, be deemed legally qualified medical practitioners :—

(1) Any person who proves to the satisfaction of

the board—

(a)	that he is a doctor or bachelor of medicine of a university in Australia which is recog­ nised as such by the board, or of some university of Great Britain or Ireland, or is a physician or surgeon licensed or admitted as such by some college of physicians or surgeons in Great Britain or Ireland; or
(b)	that he has passed through a regular course of medical study of not less than five years' duration in a school of medicine; and that he has received after due exami­ nation from some university, college, or
other

other body duly recognised for that pur­ pose in the country to which such uni­ versity, college, or other body belongs, a diploma, degree, or license entitling him to practise medicine in that country ; or

(c) that he is a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London, or a member or licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall of Dublin,

(2) Any person who is or has been a medical officer duly appointed and confirmed of His Majesty's sea or land service.

(3) Any person placed upon the separate register under section eight of this Act, or under the Acts hereby repealed: Provided that no person shall be deemed to be a legally qualified medical practitioner or entitled to be registered as such under the provisions of subsection (1) (b) of this section by virtue of a diploma, decree, or license entitling him to practise medicine in the country to which the university, college, or other body therein mentioned belongs unless it be made to appear to the board that by the laws or regulations in that behalf in force in such country the right to practise medicine therein is granted to persons who are registered in This State as legally qualified medical practitioners under this Act by virtue of their being so registered and without further examination or in the absence of such proof	unless he passes the examination prescribed	by the Senate of the University of Sydney :
Provided further that nothing in this section shall entitle to registration a graduate of any German or Austrian University or Medical School only, or a German or Austrian subject.

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