HC Deb 18 July 1950 vol 477 c2217

(1) References in section twenty-nine of the Medical Act, 1858, and sections eighteen to twenty of this Act to the registrar shall be construed as references to the registrar of the Council, and references therein to the register shall be construed as references to the general register.

(2) Where, in the case of a person registered or provisionally registered in the local register for Scotland or Ireland, the registrar of the Council makes any note in the general register or erases his name from or restores his name to the general register, the registrar shall forthwith send to the registrar of the Branch Council for Scotland or Ireland, as the case may be, particulars of the note, erasure or entry for that branch registrar to make forthwith in the local register such amendment as may be required to bring it into conformity with the general register.

(3) Where, in the case of a person registered or provisionally registered in the local register for England, the registrar of the Council makes a note in, erases his name from or restores his name to the general register, the registrar shall forthwith make in the local register for England such amendment as aforesaid.

(4) References in this Act to registration shall, except where the context otherwise requires, he construed as references to registration under the Medical Acts; and for the purpose of assimilating the wording of references in those Acts to registration, the enactments specified in the Schedule (Amendment of References to Registration) to this Act shall be amended in manner specified in the second column of that Schedule:

Provided that (without prejudice to the provisions of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, which relates to the effect of repeals) nothing in that Schedule shall prejudice the effect of any registration made before the passing of this Act, or any right or liability arising (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by reason of any such registration.—[Mr. Bevan.]

Brought up, and read the First and Second time and added to the Bill.