MIDWIVES ORDINANCE, 1910

MIDWIVES ORDINANCE, 1910

No. 18 of 1910, incorporated in no. 6 of 1909.

No. 14 of 1910, repealed by no. 24 of 1912.

No. 15 of 1910, incorporated In No. 1 of 1897.

No. 16 of 1910, repealed by no. 9 of 1911.

No. 17 of 1910, incorporated in no. 18 of 1908.

No. 18 of 1910, incorporated in no. 10 of 1900

No. 19 of 1910, repealed by no. 8 of 1912.

No. 20 of 1910, incorporated No. 1 of 1875.

No. 21 of 1910, repealed by no. 24 of 1923.

No. 22 of 1910.

an ordinance to secure the better training of midwives and
to regulate their parctice.

1. this ordinance may be cited as the midwives ordinance, 1910.

2.-(1) Every woman who not being certified under this
ordinance takes or uses any name, title, addition or descrip-
tion implying that she is certified under this Ordinance or is
a person specifically qualified to carry on the work of a
midwife, or is recognised by lam, as a midwife, shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty-
dollars'.
(2) every woman who habitually and for gain attends
women in child-birth otherwise than under the direction of a
litedical practitioner unless she is certified shall upon sum-
mary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars: Provided that this section shall not apply to medical
practitioners or to any one rendering assistance in a case of
emergency.
(3) No woman shall be certified until she has complied
with the regulations made under this Ordinance.


as amended by law rev. ord., 1924





(4) No certified woman shall employ an uncertified woman
as a substitute.

(5) The certificate under this Ordinance shall not confer
on any woman any, right or title to be registered under the
Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or to assume any name,
title, or designation implying that she is by law recognised
a medical practitioner, or that she authorised to grant
any medical certificate or any certificate of death or still-birth
or to midertake the charge of cases of abnormality or disease
in connexion with.

3. Any person who claims to be certified shall be so
certified provided she produces a certificate in midwifery
from the royal college of physicians of ireland, or from the
Obstetrical Society of London, or the coombe lying-in
Hospital. and guinness's dispensary, or the Rotunda Hospital
for the Relief of the Poor lying-in women of dublin, or such
other certificate as may be approved by the midwives board.

4.(1,) There, shall be established a midwives Board
(hereinafter called the board), consisting of the principal
Civil Medical. Officer, the Superintendent of the Alice
memorial Maternity Hospital, and the lady doctor attached
to the, same; and three persons to be nominated for a term of
three years by the Governor.

Any vacancy occurring by resignation or death shall be
filled up, in the case of nominated members, by the Governor.
nominated members shall. on the termimition of the period
for which they have been appointed, be eligible for re-
appointment for a like, period.

(2) The duties and powers of the Board shall be as
follows :-
(a) To make regulations, subject, to the approval of the
governor,

(i) regulating their own proceedings.

(ii) regulating the issue of certificates and the conditions
of admission to the roll of midwives :
(iii) regulating the course of training and the conduct of
examinations:

(iv) regulating the admission to the roll of women already
in practice as midwives at the passing of this ordinance:







(v). regulating, supervising, and restricting within due
the practice of midwives :
(vi) deciding the, conditions under which midwives may
be suspended from practice:

(vii) defining the particulars required to be given in any
notice under section 8.

(b) To appoint, examiners.

(c) To decide upon the places where and the times when
examinations shall be held.
(d) To publish annually a rollof certified midwives.

(e) To decide upon the removal from the roll of the name
of any midwife for disobeying the regulations or for other
misconduct, and upon the restoration to the roll of the name
of any midwife so removed.

(f) Generally to do any other act or duty which may be
necessary for the due and proper carrying out of the
provisions of this Ordinance.

5. There shall be a roll of midwives containing the
names of all certified midwives.
the entry on the roll shall in every case Indicate the
conditions in virtue of which the certificat was granted.

6. Any woman thinking herself aggrieved by any decision
of the Board removing her name from the roll of midwives
may appeal to the govenor in council within three months
after the notification of such dexision to her.

7. The board shall appoint a secretary and such other
officers. as may be required who shall be removable at the
pleasure of the Board The secretary shall have the custody
of the roll.

A- copy of the roll purporting to be printed by the
authority of the Board or to be signed by the secretary shall
be evidence in all courts that the women therein specified
are certlfled ; and the absence. of the name of any woman
from such copy shall be evidence, until the contrary is
made to appear, that such woman is not certified : Provided





always that in the case of any woman whose name does not
appear in such Copy, a certificate under the hand of the
secretary of the entry of the name of such woman on the
roll shall be evidence that such woman is certified.

8. Kmery certified woman shall, before holding herself
out, as a practising midwife or commencing to practise
as a midwife, give notice in writing of her intention so to do
to the secretary, and shall give a like notice in the month of
January in every year thereafter during which she, continues
to practise.

every such notice shall contain usch particualrs as may
be required by the regulations to secure the identification
of the person giving it ; and every woman who omits to
give the said notices, or knowingly or wilfully makes or
causes or procures any other person to make any false
statement in any such notice, shall upon summary conviction
be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

9. Every woman who procures or attempts to procure a
certificate under this ordinance by making or producing, or
causing to be made or produced, any false and fraudulent
declaration, certificate or representation, either in writing
or otherwise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
liable to imprisonment for nay term not exceeding one year.

10. every person who wilfully makes or causes to be made
any falsification in any matter relating to the roll of midwives
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.

11. Any offence under this ordinance punishable on sum-
mary conviction may be prosectited- by the secretary on the
insturctions of the -Board.

12. Nothing in this ordinance respecting midwives shall
apply to medical practitioners.

13. This Ordinatice, shall not apply to chinese unless they
take or use the name or title of midwife in english, or any
name, title, addition or descirption in whatever language
implying that they are certified or are persons specifically

As amended by Law Rev. Ord, 1924.

qualifled to practise midwifery, or are recognised by law as
midwives, or have studied midern or European midwifery.

14. In this Ordinance,
(a) certificed means certified under this ordinance.

(b) Midwife means a woman who is certified.
[Originally No.22 of 1910. Law Rev.Ord.,1924.]. Short title. Certification, 2 Edw.7,c. 17, s. 1. Ordinance No.1 of 1884. Certification of midwives holding certain certificates. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s, 2. Constitution of Midwives Board. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 3. Duties of Midwives Board. Midwives roll. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 6. Appeal from the decision of the Board. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 4.Appointment of secretary; and supplemental provisions as to certificate. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 7. Notification of practice. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 10. Penalty for obtaining certificate by false representation. 2 Esw. 7, c. 15, s. 11. Penalty for wilful falsification of the roll. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 12. Proescution of offences. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 13. Medical practitioners. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 13. Medical practitioners exempted. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 16. Chinese exempted subject to certa in exceptions. Interpretation.

[Originally No.22 of 1910. Law Rev.Ord.,1924.]. Short title. Certification, 2 Edw.7,c. 17, s. 1. Ordinance No.1 of 1884. Certification of midwives holding certain certificates. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s, 2. Constitution of Midwives Board. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 3. Duties of Midwives Board. Midwives roll. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 6. Appeal from the decision of the Board. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 4.Appointment of secretary; and supplemental provisions as to certificate. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 7. Notification of practice. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 10. Penalty for obtaining certificate by false representation. 2 Esw. 7, c. 15, s. 11. Penalty for wilful falsification of the roll. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 12. Proescution of offences. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 13. Medical practitioners. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 13. Medical practitioners exempted. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 16. Chinese exempted subject to certa in exceptions. Interpretation.

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