All members of the council representing the colleges of bodies aforesaid must be practitioners duly registered (ib., s. 6, subd. 3, as amended Act 1893, c. 27, s. 2).
All duly registered practitioners are entitled to vote at any election for members of the council (ib., s. 8).
Any member of the college may have his name transferred from one class of voters to any other on presenting to the registrar a certificate duly signed by the member or members of the board of examiners to examine candidates on subjects specified as peculiar to each school of medicine, testifying that the member so applying has shown a sufficient knowledge of the system of medicine he desires to connect himself with, to entitle him to be admitted to the class he desires, and being so admitted he is entitled to vote in that class only (ib., s. 9 [1]).
No member is entitled to return to the class from which he has been transferred without the sanction of the council (ib., s. 9 [2]).
The council appoints officers including a registrar (ib., s. 13).
The council must appoint an executive committee to take cognizance of and action upon all matters delegated to it by the council or which may require immediate attention or interference between the adjournment of the council and its next meeting, and all such acts shall be valid only till the next ensuing meeting of the council (ib., s. 4).
Division Association.—In each territorial division established by the act there may be established a Division Association, of which every member of the said college residing within the said territorial division shall be a member (ib., s. 15).
Professional Fees.—The division association may submit to the council a tariff of professional fees suitable to their division, and on the said tariff receiving the approval of the council, signed by the seal of the college and the signature of the president, such tariff shall be held to be a scale of reasonable charges for the division or section of a division where the members of the association making it reside (ib., s. 16).
Registration.—In a register kept by the registrar the council is required to cause to be entered the name of every person duly registered and all persons who have complied with the act and the rules and regulations made by the council respecting the qualifications of practitioners of medicine, surgery, and midwifery; and those persons only whose names are inscribed in the register shall be deemed to be qualified and licensed to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery, except as hereinafter provided (ib., s. 21).