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physician or surgeon in any other part of the said
United Kingdom, to enrol himself as an associate
of the Royal College of Physicians, or as a fellow of
the Royal College of Surgeons, of that part of the
;_United Kingdom to which he shall so remove, for
the !purpose of practising there, according to the na-
ture of his testimonials, and in each case shall be en-
titled to be so admitted without further examination,
and on payment of the like fees of admission, and on
complying with the same conditions as are required
of other persons who have passed their examinations
for the purpose of being admitted ats,ociates or fellow,;
of the said colleges respectively.
19. And be it enacted, that the said several colleges
shall, from time to time, when required by the said
council, prepare and lay before the said council a
scheme or schemes of the course of study and parti-
culars of the examination to be gone through by all
persons applying to such colleges respectively for
letters testimonial as physician, or surgeon, or licen-
tiate, and of the fees to be taken for examination and
admission into the said several colleges respectively ;
and the said council shall be empowered to make from
time to time such changes in any of the slimes so
laid before them as to the said council shall seem
expedient ; and the said council shall endeavour to
procure, as far as is practicable and convenient, that
the qualifications and fees for the said testimonials
shall be uniform, according to the nature thereof
throughout the said United Kingdom.
20. And be it enacted, that after the passing of
this Act it shall not be lawful for any University of
the said Uaited Kingdom to confer any degree in the
faculty of medicine upon any person, unless he shall
have been matriculated in the same University, and
shall have duly attended the courses of public
lectures prescribed by the same University to students
in medicine within the precincts of the same Univer-
sity, or of some medical sch,ol recognised by and in
connexion with the same University, during at least
two years next before the granting of such degree,
and shall have been examined at some time before
granting such degree by the proper examiners of such
University, and found by them to possess competent
skill and knowledge of medicine, and of the sciences
connected therewith, and of the English and Latin
languages at least; and every diploma or certificate
of a medical degree granted by any such University
after the passing of this Act, shall set forth distinctly
the time which has elapsed since the matriculation of
the person to whom such degree shall be granted, and
the time during which, and place at which, he shall
have actually studied as aforesaid, and the fact that
he has passed such examination as last aforesaid.
21. And be it declared and enacted, that it shall
be lawful for any University of the said United
Kingdom to grant the degree of bachelor in the fa-
culty of medicine, subject to the restrictions here-
inbefore contained concerning medical degrees, to any
student of the same University who shall have at-
tained the age of twenty-two years; and that every
such graduate in the faculty of medicine, being
also examined and having received letters testimo-
nial of his qualification in the manner here-
inbefore prescribed in the case of licentiates in
medicine and surgery, or examined and furnished
with the like letters testimonial by the Royal
College of Physicans and Surgeons of Glasgow, if the
said degree shall have been granted by the Univer-
sity of Glasgow, shall be entitled to be registered by
the said Council of Health and Medical Education as
a licentiate in medicine and surgery, subject to such
general regulations as shall be made by the said coun-
cil concerning the registry of licentiates.
22. And be it enacted, that no bye-law to be made
by any of the Royal Colleges of Physicians or Sur-
geons of England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively,
or by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Glasgow, shall be of any force until a copy thereof,
sealed with the seal of the same college, shall have
been laid before and approved by the said Council of
Health and Medical Education.

23. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for
the said council to make regulations for insuring the
registry of all medical and surgical students by the
proper officers of the several hospitals or medical or
surgical schools at which they shall study, and to
authorise such officers to take a fee for such registra-
tion, not being more in each case than ten shillings,
and for requiring all such fees to be remitted to the
secretary of the said council, and returns to be made
to them of the registration of all such students, in
such manner and form as the council shall think fit;
and no hospital or medical or surgical school shall be
recognised by any of the said colleges which shall
neglect or refuse to give due effect to such regula-
tions, after notice of such neglect or refusal shall
have been sent by the said council to the said colleges,
until the default of such hospital or medical or surgi-
cal school be amended to the satisfaction of the said
council, and all such fees shall be applied towards the
expenses of this Act.
24. And be it enacted, that where by this Act it is
provided that the concurrence of more than one body
is required for qualifying any person to be registered
by the said council, the examination before such bodies
for his degree or letters testimonial, or both, may be
conducted either separately before examiners appointed
by each body, or before a joint board of examiners,
to be appointed by each body separately or conjointly,
who shall be appointed in sucn number, manner, and
form, and shall hold their examinations at such times
and places as such bodies shall, with the approval of
the said council, agree from time to time among them-
selves, or as shall be determined by the said council
with respect to any point in which they shall not be
agreed ; and where there shall be separate examina-
tions before examiners appointed by each body, the
subjects and fees of examination shall be divided
among such bodies as they shall from time to time
agree among themselves, or as the said council from
time to time determine, with respect to any subject
on which they shall not be agreed.
25. And be it enacted, that the said council may
from time to time require returns to be made in such
form, and including such particulars as they shall
think fit, respecting the examinations to be conducted
as aforesaid, and it shall be lawful for any secretary
of the said council, deputed by the council for that
purpose, or for any member of the said council, to be
present at any of the said examinations ; and if the
council shall be of opinion that the regulations pre-
scribed by them for the examination and grant of
letters testimonial as physician, surgeon, or licentiate,
have been infringed, evaded, or neglected, by any of the
said examining bodies, it shall be lawful for the said
council to refuse to register upon the testimonial of the
body so in default, until the same be amended to the
satisfaction of the said council.

26. And be it enacted, that, subject to the reserva-
tions hereinafter contained, no person after the passing
of this Act who is not registered by the said council
shall be appinted to any medical or surgical office in
any public hospital, prison, infirmary, dispensary,
workhouse, or other public institution in the said
United Kingdom, or to any medical or surgical office
in her Majesty's army or navy, or in the service of
the Honourable East India Company, except, in
India, natives of India duly qualified according to
such laws or regulations as are or shall be made in
that behalf by the Governor-General in Council ; and
wherever by law it is provided that any act shall be
done by a physician or surgeon, or medical or sur-
gical practitioner, by whatever name or title he is
called, such provision shall be construed, after the
passing of this Act, to mean a person qualified to be
appointed to such medical or surgical offices as fore-
said; and the Council of Health shall be empowered
from time to time to make regulations for specifying
what institutions are to be considered public institu-
tions within the meaning of this Act, and which form
of testimonial shall be necessary to qualify the holder
thereof for every such situation.
27. And be it enacted, that all persons who are re-
gistered by the said council as physicians, surgeons,
or licentiates, shall be exempt while practising as
such from being summoned or serving on all juries
and inquests whatsoever, and from serving all corpo-
rate, parochial, ward, hundred, and township offices,
but, subject to the reservations hereinafter contained,
no person shall be entitled to such exemption, on the
ground of his practising medicine or surgery, who is
not so registered, nor shall the certificate of any such
unregistered person, given after the passing of this
Act, be received as the certificate of a medical or sur-
gical practitioner in any court of law, or in any case
in which by law the certificate of a medical or sur-
gical practitioner is required.
28. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall
be lawful for the said council, on the application,
within twelve calendar months after the passing of
this Act, of any person legally practising as a physi-
cian, surgeon. or apothecary, at the time of the pass-
ing of this Act, in any part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, or on the application with-
in two years of any person so legally practising in any
of her Majesty's colonies and foreign possessions to
cause the name of such person to be registered as a
physician, surgeon, or licentiate in medicine and sur-
gery, as the case may be, on production to the said
council of his diploma, license, or certificate, or such
other proof as shall he satisfactory to the said council,
that at the time of the passing of this Act he was
legally entitled to practise as a physician, surgeon, or
apothecary, as the case may be, in some part of the
said United Kingdom, and on payment of a fee of two
pounds in the case of fellows or associates of the said
Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons respectively, and
of five shillings in every other case, which fees shall
be applied toward the expenses of this Act; and
during the said period of twelve calendar months
every person legally practising as a physician, sur-
geon, or apothecary, at the time of the passing of this
Act, in the said United Kingdom, and during the said
period of two years, every person so legally practi-
sing in any of her Majesty's colonies and foreign pos-
sessions, although not registered, shall continue to
enjoy the same privileges and exemptions, and be
qualified to be appointed to the same offices, and to
practice in the same manner as if this Act had not
been passed, and no farther or otherwise, unless regis-
tered under this Act.