Neglect to Register.—A person neglecting to register is not entitled to the rights and privileges conferred, and is liable to all penalties against unqualified or unregistered practitioners (ib., s. 60).
Unregistered Persons.—It is not lawful for any person not registered to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery for hire, gain, or hope of reward (ib., s. 61).
No person is entitled to receive any charge for medical or surgical advice or attendance, or the performance of any operation, or for any medicine which he may have prescribed or supplied, unless he be registered, but this provision does not extend to the sale of any drug or medicine by a licensed chemist or druggist (ib., s. 62).
No person can be appointed as a medical officer, physician, or surgeon in the public service, or in any hospital or other charitable institution not supported wholly by voluntary contribution, unless he be registered (ib., s. 63).
No certificate required from any physician or surgeon or medical practitioner is valid unless the signer be registered (ib., s. 64).
Definition.—The expression “legally qualified medical practitioner,” or any other words importing legal recognition as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, in any law, is construed to mean a person registered under this act (ib., s. 65).
Immunities.—A person registered under this act is exempt from jury and inquest duty if he desire it (ib., s. 66).
Limitations.—No duly registered member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons is liable in an action for negligence or malpractice by reason of professional services requested or rendered, unless it be commenced within one year from the termination of such service (ib., s. 67).
Examinations.—The University of Manitoba is the sole examining body in medicine, and the council of the university may grant to any person a certificate under the seal of the university that the council of the university have been satisfied that the person mentioned in the certificate is, by way of medical education and otherwise, a proper person to be registered under this act; but such certificate shall not be granted until the person making such application shall have given evidence of qualification by undergoing an examination or otherwise, as the statutes of the university require, and the applicant shall in all other respects first comply with the rules and regulations of the university in that behalf (ib., s. 68).
Homœopathists.—Until a homœopathic medical college for teaching purposes is established in Manitoba, in the case of candidates wishing to be registered as homœopathists, the full time of attendance upon lectures and hospitals required by the university statutes may be spent in such homœopathic medical colleges in the United States or Europe as may be recognized by the University of Manitoba (ib., s. 69).