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None but registered charges.

Unregistered persons not to hold certain appointments.

No certificate to be valid unless person

LAWS OF BARBADOS.

XI. After the passing of this Act no person shall be entitled to recover any charge in any court of law for any medical or surgical advice or attendance, or for the performance of any operation or for any medicine which he shall have both prescribed and supplied, unless he shall prove upon the trial that he is registered under this Act.

XII. After the passing of this Act no person shall hold any appointment as a physician, surgeon, or other medical officer in any hospital, infirmary, dispensary, lunatic asylum, gaol, penitentiary, house of correction, police station, lazaretto, or other public establishment, body or institution, or to any friendly or other society for affording mutual assistance in sickness, infirmity, or old age, or as a medical officer of health, or as medical attendant on the poor of any parish unless he shall be registered under this Act.

XIII. After the passing of this Act no cersigning be registered. tificate required by any Act now in force, or that may hereafter be passed, from any physician, or surgeon, or licentiate in mediciue, and surgery, shall be valid unless the persons signing the same shall be registered under this Act.

Privileges of registered persons.

XIV. Every person registered under this Act shall be entitled, according to his qualification, to practice medicine or surgery, or medicine and surgery in this Island, and to demand and recover in any court of law or judicature, with full costs of suit, reasonable charges for professional aid, advice and visits, and the cost of any medicines or other medical or surgical appliances, rendered or supplied by him to his patients;

SESSION OF 1884-'85.

Provided always that nothing in this section shill prevent any person who is now practising both medicine and surgery, and who is registered under this Act from being entitled to practise both medicine and surgery, and to demand and recover his reasonable professional charges as if duly qualified to practise both medicine and surgery.

XV. If any person shall wilfully procure or attempt to procure himself to be registered under this Act, by making or producing, or causing to be made or produced, any false or fraudulent representation or declaration either verbally or in writing, every such person so offending, and every person aiding and assisting him therein, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds to be recovered before a police magistrate in a summary manner, or in default of payment be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.

XVI. Any person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be, or take or use the name or title of a physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general prac titioner, or any name, title, addition, or description implying that he is registered under this Act, or that he is recognised by law as a physician or surgeon, or licentiate in medicine and surgery, or a practitioner in medicine, shall on a summary conviction before any police magistrate, for any such offence, pay a sum not exceeding twenty pounds into the public treasury for the use of the Island, or in default of payment be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months.

Penalty for obtaining registration by false representations.

Penalty for falsely pretending to be a registered person.

Application of fees received by Colonial Secretary.

Duration of Act.

LAWS OF BARBADOS.

XVII. All fees received by the Colonial Secretary under this Act shall be paid into the Public Treasury for the benefit of the General Revenue.

XVIII. This Act shall continue in operation until and inclusive of the thirty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight.

SCHEDULE A

Fellow, Member, Licentiate, or Extra Licentiate, of the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Fellow, or Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Fellow or Licentiate of the King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland.

Fellow or Member or Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Fellow or Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Fellow or Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians of Glasgow.

Fellow or Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, London.

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Licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall Dub

SESSION OF 1884-'85.

Doctor, or Bachelor, or Licentiate of Medicine, or Master in Surgery, of any University of the United Kingdom.

Doctor, or Bachelor of Medicine of any Foreign or Colonial University or College. who was actually practising medicine in this Island at the time of the passing of this Act.

Doctor, or Bachelor of Medicine of any Foreign or Colonial University or College who shall produce certificates, to the satisfaction of the assessors, of his having taken his degree of doctor of medicine, after regular examination, and after a course of study, of not less than three years, at any such University or College.

Every person now possessed of, or who at any time hereafter shall become possessed of a qualification entitling him to be registered and to practice medicine and surgery in the United Kingdom under the Medical Act or Acts now in force there, or any Act or Acts which may hereafter be passed or be in force there or who shall have been or may hereafter be duly registered under the said Act.

SCHEDULE B.

We do hereby certify that we have examined the documents evidencing the qualification of A. B. to be registered under "The Medical Registration Act, 1885, and we thereby find that the said A. B. is a fellow, (or member, &c., as the case may be as in schedule A,' to this Act,) and is entitled to be registered under the said Act.

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E.F. ASSESSORS.
G.H.

LAWS OF BARBADOS.

SCHEDULE C.

I, G. H. of the parish of

in the Island of Barbados, hereby make oath and say that I was practising, as a medical practitioner in the said Island before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

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Preamble.

Short title.

Schedules and notes to have effect as part

of Act.

Interpretation.

CAP. XXXIII.

(Assented to 15th August 1885.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to regulate the business of Pawnbrokers.

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HEREAS it is expedient to regulate the business of pawnbrokers; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island, and by the authority of the same as follows;

Preliminary.

be cited as may

I. This Act brokers Act, 1885."

66 The Pawn

II. The schedules to this Act, including the notes thereto, shall have effect as part of this Act.

Definitions; Application of Act.

III. In this Act

"Pawnbroker" includes every person who carries on the business of

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