MIDWIVES ORDINANCE, 1910

MIDWIVES ORDINANCE, 1910

No. 22 of 1910.
To secure the better training of Midwives and to regulate their
practice.

1. The Midwives Ordinance, 1910.

[2nd September, 1910.]

As amended by No. 12 of 1912.
As ainewled by No. 13 of 1912.
As amended by No. 12 of 1912 and No, 13 of 1912.





2.-(1) Any woman who not beingr certified tinder this Ordinance
shall take or use any name, title, addition or description implying
that she is certified tinder this Ordinance or is a person specifically
qualified to carry or) the work of a inidwife, or is recognized by law
as a midwife, shall be liable, on suinniary conviction, to a fine Dot
exceeding 50 dollars.

(2) Any wonian who habitually and for gain attends women in
child-birth otherwise than nuder the direction of a medical practi-
tioner unless she is certified shall be liable, on summary conviction,
to a fine not exceeding 1.00 dollars : Provided that this section shall
not apply to medical practitioners or to ans, one rendering assistance
in a case of emergency.

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

(4) No certified woman shall employ an uncertified woman as a
substitute.
(5) The certificate tinder this Ordinance shall not confer on any
woman any rigIA or title to be registered tinder the Medical Re-
gistration Ordinance, 1884, or to assunie an.y naine, title, or desig-na-
tion implying that she is by law recognised as a medical practitioner,
or that she is atithorised to graut any medical certificate or any
certificate ol death or still-birth or to undertake the charge of cases
of abnorinallb, or disease in connection with parturition.

3. Any person who claiins to lw certified shall be so certified pro-
vided she produces a certificate in inidwitery fron) the Boyal College.
of Physicians of Ireland, or froin the Obstetrical Society of London,
or the Coombe, Lying-in Hospital and Guinness's Dispensary, or the
Roturida Hospital for the Relief of the Poor Lying-in Women of
Dublin or such other certificate as may be approved by the Mid-
wives Board, or produces evidence satisfactory to the Board that at
the passing of this Ordinance she has been at feast one year lit bond
fide practice as a, and that she bears a good character.

4.-(1) There shall be established a 'Midwives Board (hereinafter
called the Board), consisting of the. Principal Civil Medical Officel,
the Superintendent of the Alice Memorial, Maternity Hospital, and

As amended b\ No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
As aniended by No. 13 of 1912.
Supp. Selied.





the Lady Doctor attached to the saine; and 30 persons to be nomin-
ated for a terin of 3 years by the Governor.
Any vacancy occurring, by resignation or death shall be filled up, in
the case of nominated inembers, by the Governor. Nominated
members shall ou the termination ofthe period for which they have
been appointed, lie eligible for re-appointinent for a like period.

(2) The duties and powers of the Board shall be as follows :-
(i)-To make regulations, subject to the approval of the
Governor,-
(a) regidating their own proceeclings
(b) regulating the issue of certificates arid the conditions of ad-
mission to the roll of midwives
(c) regulating the com.se of tralimil- and the conduct of examilia-
tions :
(d) regulating the admission to the roll of already in
practice as nildwives at the passing of this Ordinance
(c) regulatinu, supervising, and restricting due limits the
practice of midwives
(f) deciding the conditions under which nildwives lilay be suspend-
ed from. practice
(g) defining the admission required to be given in any notice
under section 8.
(ii) To appoint examiners.
(iii) To decide upon the places where and the times when exami-
nations shall be lield.
(iv) To publish annually a roll of certified nildwives.
(v) To decide upon the removal from the roll of the name of any
iiiidxvife for disobeying the regulations or for other misconduct, and
upon the restoration to the, roll of the naine- of any widwife so
removed.
(vi) To issue and cancel certificates; and
(vii) Generally to do any other act or duty which way be necessary
for the due and proper carrying out of the provisions of this Ordi-
nance.

5. There shall be a roll of midwives containing the naines of
certified midwives.

* As alnended by No. 13 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.





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


6. Any woman thinking herself aggrieved by wny decision of the

Board removing her naine froir, the roll of inidwives may appeal to
the Governor-In-Council within 3 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 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 wonien therein specified are certified; and the absence of
the name of any woman from such copy sliall be evidence, until the
contrary be made to appear, that such woman is not certified. Pro-
vided always that in the case of any woman wbose name does not
appear in such copy, a certificate titider the hand of the secretary
of the entry of the name of such wonian on the roll shall be evidence
tha,t such woman is certified.

8. Every 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 ot Jantiary in every year thereafter
during which she continues to practise.

Every stich notice shall contain such particulars as may be re-
quired by the i.egulations to secure the identification of the person
giving, it; and If any make to give the sald notices, or know-
ingly or wilftilly inakes or causes or procures any other person to
make any false statement in any such notice, she shall, on summary
conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.

9. Any woman who procures or attempts to procure a certificate
yunder this Ordinance by making or producing, or causing to be made
or prodneed, any false and fraudulent declaration, certificate or re-
presentation, either in writing or otherwise, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding 12 months.

As amended by No. 12 of 1912 and No. Wof 1912.
As ainended by No. 30 of 1911.

10. Any person wifully making or catising to be made amy falsi-

fication in any matter relating to the roll of midwives shall be guilty
of a misderneanor, and shall be liable to ittiprisonnient for any term
not exceeding 12 months.

11. Any offence under this Ordinance pimishable on suininary 1
conviction may be prosecuted by the secretary on the instructions of
the Board.

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

13. This Ordinance shall not apply to Chinese unless they take or
use the name or title of inidwife in English, or any name, title,
addition or description in whatever langoage linplying that they are
certified or are persons specifically qualified to practise midwifery,
or are recognised by law as midwives, or have studied niodern or
European midwifery.

14. In this Ordinance, ---midwife---niewis a wonian who is certi-
fied, and---certified ' means ' certified mider this Ordinance -.

Short title . certification 2 edw,. 7 c. 17. No. 1 of 1884. Provision for existing midwives ib.s. 2. Constitution of midwives board. Ib. 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 . Ib. s. 7. Notification of praction ic. S. 10.penalty for obtaining certificate by false representation . Ib. s. 11. penalty for wilful falsification of the roll . 2 edw. 7 c. 17s,. 12. Prosecution o foffences. Ib. s 13. Medical practitioners exempted . Ib. s. 16. Chinese exempted subject to certain execeptions . Interpretation .

Short title . certification 2 edw,. 7 c. 17. No. 1 of 1884. Provision for existing midwives ib.s. 2. Constitution of midwives board. Ib. 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 . Ib. s. 7. Notification of praction ic. S. 10.penalty for obtaining certificate by false representation . Ib. s. 11. penalty for wilful falsification of the roll . 2 edw. 7 c. 17s,. 12. Prosecution o foffences. Ib. s 13. Medical practitioners exempted . Ib. s. 16. Chinese exempted subject to certain execeptions . Interpretation .

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