Bill.

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Clause.

1. Establishment and constitution of general medical herbalist council.

2. Register of medical herbalists.

6. Admission to register of persons trained outside United Kingdom.

7. Appeal against removal from register, and against refusal to approve institution.

8. Penalties for unlawful assumption of title of registered medical herbalist and for falsification of register.

9. Extent and short title.

SCHEDULE.

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Provide for the Registration of Medical Herbalists. A.D. 1923.

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

1.-(1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be Establishestablished a general medical herbalist council for ment and England and Wales (in this Act referred to as "the constitution of general Council"), which shall be a body corporate by that name medical 10 with perpetual succession and a common seal with power herbalists' to acquire and hold land without licence in mortmain. council. (2) The Council shall be constituted in accordance with the provisions contained in the schedule to this Act.

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(3) The seal of the Council shall be authenticated in the prescribed manner and any document purporting to be sealed with the said seal so authenticated shall be receivable in evidence of the particulars stated in that document.

2.—(1) It shall be the duty of the Council to form Register of and keep a register (in this Act referred to as "the medical register") of medical herbalists who satisfy the conditions herbalists. of admission thereto.

(2) A certificate under the seal of the Council duly 25 authenticated in the prescribed manner stating that any person is, or was at any date, or is not, or was not at any date, duly registered under this Act shall be conclusive evidence in all courts of law of the facts stated in the certificate.

A.D. 1923.

Rules.

3.-(1) The Council shall make rules for the following purposes :

(a) for regulating the formation, maintenance and publication of the register;

(b) for regulating the conditions of admission to the 5 register;

(c) for regulating the conduct of any examinations which may be prescribed as a condition of admission to the register, and any matters ancillary to or connected with any such exami- 10

nations;

(d) for prescribing the causes for which, the conditions
under which, and the manner in which medical
herbalists may be removed from the register,
the procedure for the restoration to the register 15
of medical herbalists who have been removed
therefrom and the fee to be payable on such
restoration;

(e) for regulating the summoning of meetings of the
Council and the proceedings (including quorum) 20
of the Council;

(f) for enabling the Council to constitute committees
and for authorising the delegation to committees
of any of the powers of the Council, and for
regulating the proceedings (including quorum) 25
of committees;

(g) generally for making provision with respect to
any matters with respect to which the Council
think that provision should be made for the
purpose of carrying this Act into effect (including 30
provision with respect to the issue of certificates
to medical herbalists registered under this Act)
and for prescribing anything which under this
Act is to be prescribed.

(2) Rules under this section shall contain provisions- 35
(a) requiring as a condition of the admission of

any person to the register that that person shall have undergone the prescribed training, and shall possess the prescribed experience, in herbal medication; and

(b) requiring that the prescribed training shall be carried out in an institution approved by the Council in that behalf; and

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(c) enabling persons who, within a period of two A.D. 1923.
years after the date on which the rules to be
made under the provisions of this paragraph
first come into operation, make an application
in that behalf (in this Act referred to as "an
existing herbalist's application "), to be
admitted to the register on producing evidence
to the satisfaction of the Council that they
are of good character, are of the prescribed
age, are persons who were for at least five
years before the passing of this Act bonâ fide
engaged in practice as medical herbalists
under conditions which appear to the Council
to be satisfactory for the purpose of this
provision and have adequate knowledge and
experience of herbal medication.

(3) Rules made under this section shall not come into operation unless and until they are approved by the Minister of Health.

(4) Every rule made under this section shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twentyone days on which that House has sat next after any 25 such rule is laid before it praying that the rule may be annulled or modified, His Majesty in Council may annul or modify the rule, and, if annulled, it shall thenceforth be void, and, if modified, it shall thenceforth have effect as so modified, but without prejudice to the validity 30 of anything previously done thereunder.

4. (1) The Council may, with the previous sanction Staff and of the Minister of Health, appoint a person to act as expenses, registrar of the Council, and may, subject to the consent

of the Minister as to numbers, employ such other officers 35 as the Council consider necessary.

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(2) There shall be paid to the registrar and the officers of the Council such salaries or remuneration as the Council with the approval of the Minister of Health may from time to time determine.

(3) Any expenses incurred by the Council in carrying this Act into effect, including expenses in connection with examinations or prosecutions under this Act, and, subject as hereinafter provided, the travelling expenses