Sanitary Science.—Every registered medical practitioner to whom a diploma for proficiency in sanitary science, public health or state medicine has after special examination been granted, by any college or faculty of physicians or surgeons or university in the United Kingdom, or by any such bodies acting in combination, shall, if such diploma appear to the privy council or general council to deserve recognition in the medical register, be entitled on the payment of such fee as the general council may appoint, to have such diploma entered in the said register in addition to any other diploma or diplomas in respect of which he is registered (ib., s. 21).
Evidence.—Any act of the privy council shall be sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the clerk of the council, and every order and act signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the clerk of the council shall be deemed to have been duly made and done by the privy council, and every instrument so signed shall be received in evidence without proof of the authority or signature of the clerk of the council or other proof (ib., s. 22).
The following copies of any orders made in pursuance of medical acts or this act shall be evidence:
(1) Any copy purporting to be printed by the Queen’s printer, or by any other printer in pursuance of an authority given by the general council.
(2) Any copy of an order certified to be a true copy by the registrar of the general council, or by any other person appointed by the general council, either in addition to or in exclusion of the registrar, to certify such orders (ib., s. 23).
Rights Unaffected.—This act does not vary the rights of persons practising as registered medical practitioners on the day preceding the day when it goes into effect (ib., s. 24).
In consequence of the repeal of any enactment repealed by this act, no person legally entitled to practise as a medical practitioner in any colony or part of Her Majesty’s dominions other than the United Kingdom shall cease to be so entitled if he would have been entitled if no such repeal had taken place (ib., s. 25).
Definitions.—In the act the word diploma means any diploma, degree, fellowship, membership, license, authority to practise, letters, testimonial, certificate or other status or document granted by any university, corporation, college, or other body or by any departments of or person acting under the authority of the government of any country or place within or without Her Majesty’s dominion (ib., s. 27).
Fees.—The fees are to be determined by the general council within the limits set by the various sections authorizing fees.