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Venereal disease. The (English) Venereal Disease Act, 1917, prohibits the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by a duly qualified medical practitioner. Advertisement o cures, treatment, etc., is prohibited except when made to duly qualified medical practitioners or chemists or by public authorities. Venereal disease is defined as meaning syphilis, gonorrh'a, or soft chancre, and see INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Public Health Acts, 1875-1936; Local Government Acts, 1929 and 1933. See also SLANDER and CRUELTY. [Referred, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 13(1)(v)]...
Medical Officer
Medical Officer, means a gazetted medical officer in the service of Government and includes a medical practitioner declared, by a general or special order of the State Government, to be a medical officer for the purposes of this Act. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (i)]...
Psychiatrist
Psychiatrist, means a medical practitioner possessing a post-graduate degree or diploma in psychiatry, recognised by the Medical Council of India, constituted under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and includes, in relation to any State, any medical officer who, having regard to his knowledge and experience in psychiatry, has been declared by the Government of that State to be a psychiatrist for the purposes of this Act. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (r)]...
Dentist
Dentist. The (English) Medical Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 90), s. 48, enabled Her Majesty, by charter, to grant to the Royal College of Surgeons of England power to institute examinations, etc., for dentists, and the Dentists Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 33), provides for the registration of dentists. The (English) Dentists Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 21), provides that no person, unless registered under the Act of 1878, shall practise or hold himself out, whether directly or by implication, as practising or as being prepared to practise dentistry under a penalty not exceeding 100l. Certain persons are, however, allowed to make extractions where no registered person is available. The Act establishes a Dental Board, who may admit, in addition to those admissible under s. 6 of the principal Act, any person of good character over 23 years of age on 28th July, 1921, who (1) had for any five years since July, 1914, been practising dentistry in the United Kingdom, or, if a chemist, was in ...
Chemists and druggists
Chemists and druggists. The (English) Pharmacy Act, 1933, provides for registration and abrogates certain provisions of the (English) Pharmacy Acts of 1852, 1868 and 1869, the (English) Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, the Dangerous Drugs Acts, 1920, 1923 and 1925, which otherwise regulate the business of chemists and druggists, and provide for their examination. Any registered person is entitled to sell drugs, other than poisons which are contained in the Schedules to the Act of 1933 or added thereto under the provisions of that Act. Others must not falsely imply that they are registered members of the Pharmaceutical Society or use the description of chemist, druggist, pharmacist, etc. Only authorized persons may sell poisons. It is an offence to use such titles unless authorized by the Pharmacy Acts. Medical practitioners, qualified veterinary surgeons, and certain other persons, as, for example, those selling certain scheduled poisonous substances for agricultural purposes, are not w...
Lambeth degrees
Lambeth degrees. Degrees conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury. These degrees are conferred without examination, but are now usually confined to degrees in divinity. A Lambeth medical degree does not entitle the holder to be registered as a medical practitioner....
Midwife
Midwife. A person following the profession of delivering women of children. The (English) Medical Act, 1886, by s. 3 requires as a qualification for registration as a medical practitioner, and for the recovery of professional charges, the having passed a qualifying examination in 'medicine, surgery, and midwifery.' The (English) Midwives Act, 1902, as amended by the (English) Midwives Acts, 1918 to 1937, penalizes any woman, not certified under the Act, who styles herself a midwife, or who habitually attends women in child birth for gain; constitutes a Central Midwives Board to regulate the issue of certificates; establishes a 'Midwives Roll'; provides for the local supervision of midwives by county or county borough councils, and otherwise aims at securing the better training of midwives and the regulation of their practice. For the Acts and the Rules of the Central Midwives Board under it, see Chitty's Statutes. The (English) Ministry of Health Act, 1919, provides that the Ministry s...
Referee
Referee, one to whom anything is referred; an arbitrator. Also, persons to whom are referred questions as to the locus standi of petitioners againstprivate parliamentary Bills. Consult the works of Smethurst or Clifford and Stephens hereon.A type of master appointed by a court to assist with certain proceedings, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 1284.Panels of referees are appointed to decide technical questions on appeal from depart mental authorities under various statutes, see 8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 13 (licensing of stations); as to bulls, see that title; on valuation of machinery, see (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 24; also (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), and other Acts. Reference committees may be appointed under the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1929; Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 20), for compensation; and the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, in relation t...
Woman
Woman, the word 'woman' denotes a female human being of any age. (Indian Penal Code, s. 10)By the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 1, reproducing 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, s. 3, words in any Act of Parliament passed after 1850 importing the masculine gender include females unless the contrary intention appears. Women became qualified to be registered as apothecaries by the Apothecaries Amendment Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 34), s. 5; as surgeons by the College of Surgeons Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 43), s. 2; and as medical practitioners by the Medical Amendment Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 41), s. 1, and see infra.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, s. 1, provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of any public function, or from being appointed to or holding any civil or judicial office or post, or from entering or assuming or carrying on any civil profession or vocation, or for admission to any incorporated society (whether incorp...
Doctor
Doctor, the courtesy title 'doctor' is commonly applied to all registered medical practitioners, excepting consulting surgeons. Whether or not they hold the degree of Doctor of Medicine, Halsbury's Laws of England (28), para 28, p. 31....
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