MEDICAL COUNCIL REGULATIONS *

MEDICAL COUNCIL

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 94.03

MEDICAL COUNCIL REGULATIONS *

10th May, 1955

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 210 of 1955, as amended by Legal Notice 408

of 2007.

The title of these regulations is Medical Council

Regulations.

In all cases concerning the application of articles 95 to 101

of the Code of Police Laws and of any regulations made under

article 102, the Council shall include three additional members

holding a warrant to practise as architects and civil engineers not

employed in the Department of Health, one of whom shall be

nominated by the Chamber of Architects.

For the purposes of inquiries concerning physicians, dental

surgeons and dentists, apothecaries, and midwives to be held under

the provisions of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance,

the Council shall include as additional members three licensed

physicians in the case of inquiries concerning physicians, three

licensed dental surgeons in the case of inquiries concerning dental

surgeons or dentists, three licensed apothecaries in the case of

inquiries concerning apothecaries and three midwives in the case of

inquiries concerning midwives. Such three additional members

shall be nominated by the majority of the licensed physicians, or, as

the case may be, licensed dental surgeons and dentists, apothecaries

or midwives residing in these Islands, who vote as hereunder. The

nomination shall be by secret ballot and shall take place every year

during the month of December on consecutive days and at a place

or places and in the manner to be fixed by the Chief Government

Medical Officer. A period of at least thirty-six hours shall be

allowed for the recording of votes. The nomination thus made shall

appl y to the year beginning on the 1st d ay o f January n ext

following the holding of the ballot. In respect of the inquiries

above-mentioned an advocate shall be appointed yearly by the

Minister responsible for the Department of Health to serve also as

a n ad d i t i o na l m e m b e r f o r th e so l e p u r p o s e o f a dv i s in g t h e

Chairman of the Council regarding legal points of procedure and

evidence and without having a vote.

For the purpose of conducting examinations for the license

of assistant apothecary in the subjects which may from time to time

be laid down by the Medical Council under article 21 of the

Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, the Medical Council

may appoint an examining board, to be composed of one of the

regular members of the Medical Council as Chairman, and of two

licensed apothecaries to be appointed annually by the Minister

responsible for the Department of Health, who will sit as additional

members of the Medical Council for the aforesaid purpose.

*These Regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 249 of 2025.

MEDICAL COUNCIL

For the purposes of the provisions of articles 66 and 67 of

the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, and whenever any

other matter concerning the dental profession and not covered by

regulation 3 is being considered, the Council shall include the three

dental surgeons appointed as additional members of the Council

under regulation 3.

For the purposes of the provisions of article 19 of the

Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, and whenever any

other matter concerning the pharmaceutical profession and not

covered by regulation 3 is being considered, the Council shall

include the three apothecaries appointed as additional members of

the Council under regulation 3.

Whenever any matter concerning nurses or the nursing

profession is being considered, the Council shall include three

additional members to represent the nursing profession appointed

by the Minister responsible for the Department of Health.

Minutes of the proceedings of every sitting shall be kept by

the secretary and shall be read at the commencement of the

following sitting. They shall be accessible to the members at all

times.

All correspondence shall be addressed to the secretary of

the Council.

Each ordinary and additional member, other than

government officers whose whole time is at the disposal of the

G o v e r n m e nt , s ha l l , un l e s s h e i s a m em b e r o f t h e H o us e o f

Representatives, be paid a fee of one euro and sixteen cents (1.16)

for each for each sitting of the Council which he attends.