Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1

by R. A. Witthaus; Tracy C. Becker

Register.—The council is required to appoint a registrar and to cause a register to be kept in which shall be entered the name of every person registered under this act or under the Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba, chap. 9, and the acts amending the same, and of all persons who comply with this act, and the rules and regulations made by the council respecting the qualifications of practitioners of medicine, surgery, and midwifery. Only those whose names are inscribed in the book are deemed qualified and licensed to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery (ib., s. 17, 24, 25).

Qualification.—All persons duly registered under existing laws when the revised statutes took effect are deemed registered under the present law (ib., s. 27).

The registrar was required immediately upon his appointment to register the name of every person registered under previous acts (ib., s. 28).

Every person who possesses one or more of the following qualifications shall, upon the payment of the fee, to be fixed for each particular class by by-law of the council, be entitled to be registered on the production to the registrar of the document proving such qualification:

1. Persons entitled to be registered at the time of the coming into force of the revised statutes.

2. Any member of any incorporated college of physicians and surgeons of any province of the Dominion of Canada, or any member of any other incorporated body of medical men in Canada, exercising powers similar to those conferred by this act on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, where, by the laws of the province under which the said incorporated body exists, similar rights to register and to practise medicine are granted to the persons incorporated under this act.

3. Every person mentioned in chap. 48 of Act 49 and 50 Vict. of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

4. Every graduate in medicine upon examination of the University of Manitoba.

5. Every person who produces to the registrar the certificate under the corporate seal of the University of Manitoba hereinafter provided for (ib., s. 29).