MEDICAL ACT. 
39 
ORIGINAL ACT. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. 
TITLE. 
An Act to regulate the Qualifications of A Bill to amend the Medical Acts. 
Practitioners in Medicine and Surgery. 
PREAMBLE. 
Whereas it is expedient that persons 
requiring medical aid should be enabled 
to distinguish qualified from unqualified 
practitioners: 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 Com¬ 
mons, in the present Parliament assembled, 
-and by the authority of the same as fol¬ 
lows :— 
Whereas it is expedient that persons re¬ 
quiring medical aid should be enabled to 
distinguish qualified from unqualified prac¬ 
titioners ; and whereas it is moreover neces¬ 
sary for the safety and protection of the 
public towards securing adequately edu¬ 
cated practitioners in the several depart¬ 
ments of Medicine, Surgery, and Phar¬ 
macy : be it therefore enacted, etc. etc. 
SECTIONS. 
X. The General Council shall appoint a 
registrar, who shall act as secretary of the 
General Council, and who may also act as 
treasurer, unless the Council shall appoint 
another person or other persons as trea¬ 
surer or treasurers; and the person or per¬ 
sons so appointed shall likewise act as 
registrar for England , and as secretary 
and treasurer or treasurers, as the case may 
be, for the Branch Council for England; 
•the General Council and Branch Council 
for England shall also appoint so many 
^clerks and servants as shall be necessary 
for the purposes of this Act; and every 
person so appointed by any Council shall 
be removable at the pleasure of that Coun¬ 
cil, and shall be paid such salary as the 
<3000011 by which he was appointed shall 
think fit. 
XIII. All moneys payable to the re¬ 
spective Councils shall be paid to the trea¬ 
surers of such Councils respectively, and 
shall be applied to defray the expenses of 
carrying this Act into execution in manner 
following; that is to say, separate ac¬ 
counts shall be kept of the expenses of the 
G-eneral Council, and of those of the 
Branch Councils ; and the expenses of the 
General Council, including those of keep¬ 
ing, printing, and publishing the Register 
for the United Kingdom, shall be defrayed, 
under the direction of the General Coun¬ 
cil, by means of an equal percentage rate 
upon all moneys received by the several 
Branch Councils ; returns shall be made by 
the treasurers of the respective Branch 
■Councils, at such times as the General 
Council shall direct, of all moneys received 
by them ; and the necessary per-centage 
having been computed by the General 
Council, the respective contributions shall 
be paid by the treasurers of such Branch 
•Councils to the treasurer or treasurers of 
For Sect. X.' —Substitute the follow¬ 
ing 
The General Council shall appoint a re¬ 
gistrar, who shall act as secretary of the 
General Council, and may act as treasurer, 
unless the Council shall appoint another 
person or other persons as treasurer or trea¬ 
surers. The General Council shall also 
appoint so many clerks and servants as 
shall be necessary for the purposes of this 
Act; and every person so appointed shall 
be removable at the pleasure of the Coun¬ 
cil, and shall be paid such salary as the 
Council shall think fit. 
Clause XIII. and proposed Amend¬ 
ments, with Observations of Scotch Branch 
Council of No. 27, 7th Feb., 1863, to be 
referred back to solicitor for observations. 
For Sect. XIII.—Substitute a section 
to the following effect:— 
Separate accounts shall be kept of the 
expenses of the General Council, and those 
of the Branch Councils. The expenses of 
the Branch Councils shall be defrayed 
under the direction of those Councils, re¬ 
spectively, out of the moneys received by 
them. Returns shall be annually made by 
the treasurers of the respective Branch 
Councils of all moneys so received and ex¬ 
pended by them ; and the said treasurers 
shall, as soon as possible, transmit the ba¬ 
lance remaining in their hands to the trea¬ 
surer of the General Council; and the ex¬ 
penses of the General Council, including 
those of keeping, printing, and publishing 
the Register of the United Kingdom, shall 
be defrayed, under direction of the General 
Council, out of the fund arising from the 
