Training School for Enrolled Nurses (Amendment.) Regulations, 1980

L.N. 5 of 1980

MEDICAL AND KINDRED PROFESSIONS ORDiNANCE

(CAP. 51)

Training School for Enrolled Nurses (Amendment.) Regulations, 1980

IN exercise of the powers c on f e rr ed by section 72 of the MedicJ l

and Kindred Professions Ordinance, the Minister of Health and Envi­

ronment, on the advice of the Nursing and Midwifery Board, has made

the following regulations:-

These regulalions may be cited as the Training School for

Enrolled Nurses (Amendment) Regulations, 1980. and shall be read and

construed as one with the Training School for En r o l l e d Nurses Regula­

tions, 1971, hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

For r eg u l a t i o n 14 of the principal regulations there shall be

rcr,ulation J 4 of substituted the following new regulation -

"Eligibility

(I) No pupii nurse may sit for the Intermediale

Examination until she sha11 have passed the Tntroductory

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F\amination exammatlon.

(2) No pupil nurse may sit for the Final Assess-

Assessment.

ment unless she shall have passed the Intermediate Exami­

nation

Provided that no pupil nurse shall sit for the Fina 1

Assessment if she has absented herself on sick leave or other

cause (excluding vacation leave) in excess of an aggregate

p e ri od of twenty days throughout the duration of the pre­

scribed course of studies at the training school. unless she has

made up for the exeess absenteeism by attending for practieal

duties at a Govemment Hospitat to the satisfaetion of the

Principal Nursing Tutor, before sitting for the Fina! Assess­

ment

Provided further tha t sfter making up for the e'<cess

absenteeism, sueh pupil nurse shall not be entitled to a

special session of the Final Assessment but may sit at cl

session not earlier than that which is due in the normal

course of events.

(3) Any pupil nurse may make up for the e xc e ss

absenteeism, referred to in paragraph (2) of this regulation. 01'

for any p a r t thereof, by forfeiting an equivalent number of

days of vacation leave to which sht: may be entitled.

(4) Any excess absenteeism existing bcfore the

coming into force of these regu!ations shall not be considered

for the purpose of this regulation.".

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