Section 14, The Medical Practitioners, Dentists and Druggists Ordinance

(1) Whenever the Director of Medical Services is satisfiedthat in the interest of the public the privileges of persons registered under this Part of this Ordinance should be conferred temporarily upon any person who possesses medical or dental qualifications which do not entitle him to registration under section 6 of this Ordinance and who either- (a) is in the service of the Government as a medical or dental officer, or (b) is a medical missionary attached to a missionary society recognised by the Director of Medical Services for the purposes of this section (hereinafter called a recognised missionary society) the Director of Medical Services may authorise him to be registered temporarily as a medical practitioner or dentist, as the case may be, and for such time as any person. remains temporarily registered as a medical practitioner or dentist under this section he shall for all the purposes of this Ordinance excepting sections 4 and 13 be deemed to be registered under this Ordinance as a medical practitioner or dentist, as the case may be. (2} Temporary registration under this section shall be effected in a special register, which shall be kept in the form set out in Schedule A to this Ordinance, and a separate register shall be kept of persons temporarily registered as medical practitioners and of persons temporarily registered as dentists respectively. (3} No fee shall be charged for temporary registration as a medical practitioner or dentist under this section. (4} The Director of Medical Services may, without assigning any reason, strike out the name of any person from any register kept for the purposes of this section, and shall strike out the name of any person from such register as soon as he becomes aware that such person has ceased to be in the service of the Government or to be a medical missionary or to be attached to a recognised missionary society, as the case may be. (5) At the same time as the Director of Medical Services publishes in the Gazette the list referred to in section 4 of this Ordinance, he shall also publish in the Gazette a list of the names and qualifications of all persons temporarily registered under this section. (6) Such publication of such list shall be prima facie evidence that the persons named therein are temporarily registered under this section, and the absence of the name of any person from such list shall be prima facie evidence that such person is not so temporarily registered. (7) Sub-sections (2) and {3) of section 5 of this Ordinance shall apply to any register kept for the purposes of this section and to all copies thereof or extracts therefrom.