(Scotland) Bill. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. PART I. AMENDMENT OF THE MIDWIVES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1915. Clause. 1. Amendment of s. 1(2) of Midwives (Scotland) Act, 1915. 2. Provision for certifying persons holding certificates in midwifery on 1st January 1918. 3. Amendment of s. 6 of principal Act. 4. Amendment of s. 22 of principal Act. 5. Provision as to midwives' roll. 6. Regulations as to badges. 7. Combination of local supervising authorities and committees. PART II. REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION OF MATERNITY HOMES. 8. Registration. 9. 10. Cancellation of registration. Notice of refusal or cancellation of registration. 11. Regulations. 12. Inspection of maternity homes. 13. Offences by companies. 14. Power to exempt certain institutions from Part II. PART III. GENERAL. 15. Interpretation. 16. Short title, construction and extent. (Scotland). A BILL ΤΟ Amend the Midwives (Scotland) Act, 1915, and A.D. 1927. to provide for the registration and inspection of maternity homes, and for purposes connected therewith. BE 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: PART I. AMENDMENT OF THE MIDWIVES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1915. 1. The following subsection shall be substituted for Amendment subsection (2) of section one of the Midwives (Scotland) of s. 1 (2) of 10 Act, 1915 (in this Part of this Act referred to as "the Midwives principal Act") :- 15 20 "(2) If any person being either a male person or a woman not certified under this Act attends a woman in childbirth otherwise than under the direction and personal supervision of a duly qualified medical practitioner, that person shall, unless he or she satisfies the court that the attention was given in a case of sudden or urgent necessity, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds : Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply in the case of a person who, (Scotland) Act, 1915. (Scotland). while undergoing training with a view to becoming 2. Notwithstanding anything in section two of the principal Act, any woman who, within two years from the date of this Act coming into operation, claims to be certified under the principal Act shall be so certified 10 provided she was on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the holder of a certificate in midwifery from any of the hospitals, or the society, college, dispensary or board mentioned in the said section two, or any other certificate approved by the Central 15 Midwives Board for Scotland for the purposes of that section. 3.-(1) Where a midwife has been suspended from practice in order to prevent the spread of infection, she shall, if she was not herself in default, be entitled to 20 recover from the local supervising authority such amount by way of compensation for loss of practice as is reasonable in the circumstances of the case. (2) In subsection (2) of section six of the principal Act the words from " or where " to "infection " shall be 25 repealed. 4. (1) Subsection (1) of section twenty-two of the principal Act (which relates to medical assistance in case of emergency) shall have effect as if for the words "and such fee shall cover one subsequent visit" there 30 were substituted the words "and such fee shall cover "such further visits as shall be prescribed by the scale." (2) Subsection (2) of the said section twenty-two shall have effect as if at the end thereof there were added the words " and shall submit his claim within two 35 "months from the date of the last visit covered by the "scale." (3) Subject to the sanction of the Scottish Board of Health a local supervising authority may make arrangements with any pregnant women in their area 40 for the payment by such women to the authority, whether by instalments or not, of such sum as may be (Scotland). agreed to cover any liability which the authority may A.D. 1927. incur under section twenty-two of the principal Act in respect of fees payable to medical practitioners who may be called in by midwives in pursuance of that section, 5 and subsection (4) of that section shall not apply in the case of any woman who has entered into such an arrangement and has duly paid the agreed sum. 5.-(1) The Central Midwives Board for Scotland Provision as may if they think fit cause the roll of midwives to be to midwives' 10 divided into two parts, of which one shall contain the roll. names of all those practising midwives whose names have been supplied to the Board by local supervising authorities in the month of January in each year in accordance with the provisions of section sixteen of the 15 principal Act and shall be published annually, and the other shall contain the names of all other persons who are entitled to be on the roll and shall be published at such intervals, not exceeding five years, as the Scottish Board of Health may determine. 20 (2) The Central Midwives Board for Scotland may from time to time by registered letter addressed to any woman whose name is included in the roll of midwives at her address as appearing therein inquire of her whether she has ceased practice or has changed her 25 residence; and if within a period of six months from the sending of such a letter no answer is received thereto the Board may erase the name of that woman from the roll and may cancel her certificate, but without prejudice to the power of the Board subsequently to restore the 30 name to the roll and to issue a certificate if it appears proper so to do. 6. (1) The power of the Central Midwives Board for Regulations Scotland to frame rules under section five of the principal as to badges. Act shall include a power to frame a rule as to 35 the wearing of badges by certified midwives, and if any such rule is made subsection (1) of section one of that Act shall have effect as if the words " or badge were inserted therein after the word "description." (2) Section nine of the principal Act (which provides 40 for the return by a midwife of her certificate when her name is removed from the roll in certain circumstances) shall apply to any badge issued to any person by virtue |