Jersey Law 7/1965

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS (REGISTRATION) (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) LAW, 1965.

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A LAW   to amend the Medical Practitioners (Registration) (Jersey) Law, 1960, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

14th day of APRIL, 1965.

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(Registered on the 14th day of May, 1965).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 4th day of February, 1965.

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law:  -

ARTICLE 1

In sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of Article 9 of the Medical Practitioners (Registration) (Jersey) Law, 19601 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), after the words “has been convicted” there shall be inserted the words “in the Island of a crime or misdemeanour or has been convicted”.

ARTICLE 2

After Article 9 of the principal Law¹ there shall be inserted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 9A

SAVING FOR EMPLOYMENT IN HOSPITALS

(1)          Notwithstanding the provisions of this Law, a person may be employed in a resident medical capacity in a hospital under the administration of the Public Health Committee if he is duly registered as a provisionally registered medical practitioner in pursuance of section seventeen or twenty-three of the Medical Act, 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 76).

(2)          The Public Health Committee shall enter, in a list to be kept for that purpose, the name of any person employed by virtue of paragraph (1) of this Article and, on his ceasing to be so employed, his name shall be removed from the list.

(3)          The list kept in pursuance of paragraph (2) of this Article shall be available for inspection at all reasonable times.

(4)          A person who is employed by virtue of paragraph (1) of this Article shall, in relation to that employment and to things done or omitted in the course thereof, be treated as registered under this Law as a medical practitioner, but in relation to all other matters shall be treated as not so registered.

(5)          In this Article, ‘employed in a resident medical capacity’ means employed in the practice of medicine, surgery or midwifery where the person employed is resident in the hospital where he is employed or conveniently near thereto and is by the terms of his employment required to be so resident.”

ARTICLE 3

This Law may be cited as the Medical Practitioners (Registration) (Amendment) (Jersey) Law, 1965.

A.D. LE BROCQ,

Greffier of the States.