MIDWIVES ORDINANCE, 1910

MIDWIVES ORDINANCE, 1910

No. 14 of 1910, repealed by No. 24 of 1912.

No. 15 of 1910, incorporated in No. 4 of. 1897.

No. 16 of 1910, repealed by No. 9 of 1911.

No. 17 of 1910, incorpoiated in No. 18 of 1908,
repealed by No. 22 of 1919.

No. 18 of 1916, incorporated in No. 10 of 1900.

No. 19 of 1910, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.

No. 20 of 1910, incorporated in No. 7 of 1875.

No. 21 of 1910, repealed by No. 24 of 1923.

No. 22 of 1910.

AnOUrdinance to secure the better training of midwives and
to regulate their practice.

[2nd September, 1910.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Midwives Ordinance,
1910.

2.-(1) Every woman who not being certified and enrolled
under this Ordinance takes or uses any name, title, addition or
description implying that she is certified and enrolled under this

Asamended by No. 12 of 1926 [27.8.26], No. 21 of 1936 [1.1.37], No.
49 of 1936 [4.12.36] and Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





Ordinance or is a person specifically qualified to carry on the
work of a midwife, or is recognized by law as a midwife, shall
upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two
hundred and fifty dollars.

Every woman who habitually and for gain attends
women in child-birth otherwise than under the direction of a
medical practitioner unless she is certified and enrolled shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars.

(3) No woman shall be certified and enrolled until she has
complied with the regulations made under this Ordinance.

(4) No certified and enrolled 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, 1935, or to assume any name, title or
designation implying that she is by law recognized as a medical
practitioner, or that she is authorized to grant any medical
certificate or any certificate of death or still-birth or to undertake
the charge of cases of abnormality or disease in connexion with
parturition.

[S. 3, rep. No. 25 Of 1930.]

4.-(1) There shall be established a Midwives Board, here-
inafter called the Board, which shall consist of the Director of
Medical Services and six other persons appointed by the
Governor. The Director of Medical Services shall be the chair-
man of the Board. Each of the appointed members shall hold
office for such term, or subject to such conditions, as the
Governor may prescribe: Provided that the Governor may at
any time cancel any appointment.

(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 its own proceedings;

As amended by No. 12 of 1926.[27.8.26] and Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





(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, supervising and restricting within due limits
the practice of midwives;

(v) deciding the conditions under which midwives may be
suspended from practice

(vi) 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 roll of certified midwives;

(e) to decide upon the removal from the roll of the name of
any midwife for disobeying the regulations or for other mis-
conduct, and upon the restoration to the roll of the name of any
midwife so removed;

to issue and cancel certificates; and

(g) 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 practising or authorized to practise in
the Colony.

The entry on the roll shall in every case indicate the con-
ditions in virtue of which the certificate was granted.

6. Any woman thinking herself aggrieved by any decision
of the Board cancelling her certificate and removing her name
from the roll of midwives may appeal to the Governor in Council
within three months after the notification of such decision to her.

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

As amended by No. 49 of 1936 [4.12.36].





of the Board. The Director of Medical Services, or such person
as he shall appoint, 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 certified and
enrolled; 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 certiied and enrolled: 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 and enrolled.

8. Every certified woman, not already enrolled, who desires
to practise or to be authorized to practise in the Colony shall,
before holding herself out as a practising midwife or commencing
to practise as a midwife, give notice in writing to the secretary
applying for admission to the roll and shall pay an enrolment
fee of five dollars.

Every certified and enrolled woman who desires her name
to be retained on the roll on its next annual publication shall give
notice of such desire in writing to the secretary in the month of
January and shall pay a retention fee of one dollar.

Every such notice shall contain such particulars as may be
required by the regulations to secure the identification of the
person giving it; and every woman who omits to give any of 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.

[s. 9, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1939]

-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 imprison-
ment for any term not exceeding one year.

[s. 11, rep. No. 12 of 1926.]

As amended by No. 12 of 1926 [27.8.26].
As amended by No. 49 of 1936 [4.12.36].
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





12. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to medical practi
tioners.

[s. 13, rep. No. 21 of 1936.]

14. In this Ordinance,

(a) ' Board ' means the Midwives Board established under
this Ordinance;
(b) - Certified means certified under this Ordinance;
(c) ' Alidwife means, a woman who is certified and
enrolled.

No. 23 of 1910, incorporated in No. 2 of 1898.

No. 24 of 1910, repealed by No. 25 of 1935.

No. 25 of 1910, repealed by No. 2 of 1020.

No. 26 of 1910, incorporated in No. 10 of 1910,
repealed by No. 6 of 1917.

No. 27 of 1910, incorporated in No. 1 of 1873.

No. 28 of 1910, repealed by No. 42 of 1912.

No. 29 of 1910, incorporated in No. 9 of 1910,
repealed by No. 9 of 1916.

No. 30 of 1910, repealed by No. 8 of 1912.

No. 31 of 1910, repealed by No. 9 of 1911.

No. 32 of 1910, incorporated in No. 1 of 1869.

No. 33 of 1910, incorporated in No. 23 of 1909,
repealed by No. 4 of 1914.

As amended by No. 12 of 1926 [27.8.26].
* As amended by No. 49 of 1936 [4.12.36]
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
[Originally No. 22 of 1910. No.12 of 1926. No. 5 of 1928. No. 25 of 1930. No. 21 of 1936. No. 49 of 1936. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Certification. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 1. [cf. No. 48 of 1936, s. 2 (1).] [cf. No. 41 of 1935, s. 11.] [5.12.30.] 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 wilful falsification of the roll. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 12. [27.8.26.] Medical practitioners exempted. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 16. [1.1.37.] Interpretation. [14.6.35.]

[Originally No. 22 of 1910. No.12 of 1926. No. 5 of 1928. No. 25 of 1930. No. 21 of 1936. No. 49 of 1936. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Certification. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 1. [cf. No. 48 of 1936, s. 2 (1).] [cf. No. 41 of 1935, s. 11.] [5.12.30.] 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 wilful falsification of the roll. 2 Edw. 7, c. 17, s. 12. [27.8.26.] Medical practitioners exempted. 2 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 16. [1.1.37.] Interpretation. [14.6.35.]

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