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Amend the Medical Act, 1858, so far as relates to the regis- A.D. 1876. tration of women who have taken the degree of Doctor of Medicine in a foreign University.

WHEREAS under the provisions of the Medical Act, 1858, a

woman who had taken the degree of doctor of medicine in a foreign or colonial university, and had practised as a physician in the United Kingdom before the passing of the Act, was qualified 5 to be registered:

And whereas it is expedient that any woman who possesses the degree of doctor of medicine of a foreign university may be entitled to be registered, although she has not practised as a physician in the United Kingdom before the first day of October 10 one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight:

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Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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1. Every woman to whom the degree of doctor of medicine has Women who been or may hereafter be granted, after regular examination, by are doctors any of the foreign universities mentioned in the schedule to this Act, shall, upon application to that effect, be entitled to be regis- registered. tered in the terms of section fifteen of the Medical Act, and on the 20 same conditions as are laid down in sections twenty and twentyone of the said Act, as applicable to degrees granted by the examining colleges and bodies of the United Kingdom.

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2. It shall be lawful from time to time for the General Medical Other uniCouncil to add other foreign or colonial universities to those men- versities may 25 tioned in the schedule to this Act, and whenever the said council the schedule. shall have determined and issued an order to that effect, the degree of doctor of medicine of such university or universities shall thereupon constitute a qualification entitling any woman holding the

A.D. 1786. same to registration under the Medical Act, 1858, subject always to the conditions mentioned in the above-mentioned sections of the said Act.

Short title.

3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Medical Act (Foreign Universities), 1876, and shall be construed as one with 5 the Medical Acts.