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to the penalties incurred by the infringement of such provisions by such agent.

XVIII. The Court before which any action or suit for any of the penalties imposed by the provisions of this Act is brought, shall call upon the plaintiff to give security for costs.

Plaintiff in any action under this Act to give security for costs.

CAP. XXXI.

(Assented to 17th July 1885.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to remove doubts respecting certain executions issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of this Island.

W

HEREAS a practice has recently prcvailed that executions issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of this Island bear teste the name of the Chief Judge of such Court under the hand of the Prothonotary; And whereas doubts have arisen as to the correctness of this practice;

I. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of this Island, that all such executions as have hitherto been or shall hereafter be so issued as abovementioned under the hand of the Prothonotary or any Acting Prothonotary of the Court, shall be valid and effectual, and in as full force and effect to all intents and purposes as if they had issued under the hand of the Chief Judge for the time being, any act or law to the contrary notwithstanding.

All executions which have issued or

shall issue out of the Court of Common Pleas tested in the name of the Chief Judge under the

hand of the Prothonotary to be as valid as if issued under the hand of the Chief Judge.

Preamble.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Colonial Secretary

to keep "The Medical Register."

Registration of persons now qualified, and of persons hereafter becoming qualified.

LAWS OF RARBADOS.

CAP. XXXII.

(Assented to 15th August 1885.) BARBADOS.

An Act to establish a system of medical registration in this Island.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island and by the authority of the same, as follows;

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I. This Act may be cited for all purposes as, "The Medical Registration Act, 1885." II. After the passing of this Act, the words legally qualified medical practitioner," or duly qualified medical practitioner," or any words importing a person recognized by law as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, when used in any Act of this Island, shall be construed to mean a person registered under this Act.

III. After the passing of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Colonial Secretary of this Island to keep a register, to be called "The Medical Register," of all medical practitioners in this Island who shall desire, and be entitled, to be registered, and who shall produce to him a certificate or affidavit of their qualification as hereinafter mentioned; and the Colonial Secretary for the time being of this Island shall be the Registrar under this Act.

IV. Every person now possessed of, and, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, every person hereafter becoming possessed of any one or more of the qualifications described in schedule 'A' to this Act, and who shall desire to be registered, shall, on payment to the Registrar of a fee of five shillings, be entitled to have his name placed on the Medical Register on producing to the

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Registrar the certificate of the Medical Assessors hereinafter mentioned, that he is possessed of one or more of the qualifications mentioned in schedule 'A' to this Act.

V. Immediately on the passing of this Act, the Governor-in-Executive Committee shall appoint three persons possessed of one or more of the qualifications mentioned in schedule A' to this Act, practising in this Island, to act as Medical Assessors, and the Regis. trar shall upon payment by each of them of a fee of five shillings, place their names on the Medical Register, and the Governor-inExecutive Committee shall also from time to time as a vacancy shall occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, in the office of medical assessors, fill the same from the registered medical practitioners, practising in this Island; and it shall be the duty of the Medical Assessors, without ary fee or reward, on application being made to them. by any person desiring to be registered under this Act, within fifteen days thereafter, to meet together and examine the document or documents evidencing the qualification of the person desiring to be registered, and in case it shall appear to the Medical Assessors that such applicant is possessed of one or more of the qualifications mentioned in schedule. 'A' to this Act, to grant him a certificate in the form marked B' in the schedule to this Act annexed, and such person on producing to the Registrar the certificate, and on payment to him of a fee of five shillings shall be entitled to be registered. The Governor-in-Executive Committee may from time to time displace any assessor or assessors and appoint another or others in his or their place or places.

Medical Assessors, how appointed and displaced; their du ties.

Persons practising in this lsland.

Register to be published.

Registered persons may have subsequent qualifications inserted in the Register,

LAWS OF BARBADOS.

VI. Any person who was actually practising medicine in this Island before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and who shall desire to be registered, shall, on payment to the Registrar of a fee of five shillings, be entitled to be registered on producing to the Registrar an affidavit according to the form or to the effect in schedule to this Act, signed by him; and the Registrar is hereby authorised and empowered to swear such person to the truth of such affidavit.

VII. The Registrar shall in the month of January in every year, cause to be printed and published in the Official Gazette of this Island, the names and addresses of the medical assessors, and a correct list, in alphabetical order, according to surnames, of all persons appearing on the medical register on the first day of January in every year, with their medical titles, and a copy of the Official Gazette for the year in which the same is last published shall be evidence in all courts, and before all Justices of the Peace and others, that the persons therein named are registered according to the provisions of this Act; provided always that in the case of any person whose name does not appear in the Official Gazette last published as aforesaid, a certificate under the hand of the Registrar shall be evidence that such person is registered under the provisions of this Act; and the Registrar shall, on application for such a certificate, grant the same on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence

VIII. Every person registered under this Act who may have obtained or may obtain any higher degree or any qualification other than the qualification in respect of which he

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may have been registered, shall be entitled to have such higher degree or additional qualification inserted in the register in substitution for or in addition to the qualification previously registered, free of charge, on producing a certificate, under the hands of the said assessors, that he has obtained such higher degree or additional qualification; and the assessors are hereby authorised and required to grant the certificate on application to them for the same, and on the applicant producing to them the document or documents evidencing the higher degree or additional qualification.

IX. In case any applicant for registration Applicant for reshall be dissatisfied with the decision of gistration dissatisfithe Assessors, it shall be lawful for such ed with decision of Assessors right of applicant to appeal to the Chief Judge of appeal to Chief Judge this Island in Chambers, by petition to be in Chambers. lodged with the Registrar, and the Registrar shall within ten days after the same is lodged, bring the same to the notice of the Chief Judge, who, with the assistance, if he shall require it, of two duly qualified medical practitioners, other than the said Assessors, shall hear and determine such appeal, and in case the Chief Judge, in Chambers, with such assistance (if he shall require it) as aforesaid, shall think the applicant duly qualified and entitled to be registered under this Act, he shall direct the Registrar to place the name of the applicant on the Medical Register.

X. If any medical practitioner shall be convicted of any felony the Registrar shall erase the name of such medical practitioner from the Register; and on the death of any medical practitioner, the Registrar shall erase his name from the Register.

Medical practitioners convicted of off the Register. felony shall be struck

On death to erase

name.