THE 
CONTEMPLATED MEDICAL ACT 
FOR THE 
DOMINION OF CANADA, 
PASSED AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION OF CANADA. 
WHEREAS, it is expedient that persons requiring medical aid, should be 
enabled to distinguish qualified from unqualified Practitioners, and that the laws and 
regulations for the education, examination, and registration of Practitioners of Medicine, 
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(Jornada; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of both Houses of 
-parliament of the Dominion of Canada, in this present Parliament assembled, enacts as 
follows;— 
I. This Act may, for all purposes, be cited as “ The Medical Act of the Dominion 
of Canada.” 
11. The Medical Profession of the Dominion of Canada is hereby incorporated under 
the name and style of “ The College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Dominion of 
Canada,” and shall have a corporate seal; and every member of the Medical Profession 
u ow holding a licence to practice Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, in any of the several 
Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, shall be and is hereby made a member of the said 
‘i College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Dominion of Canada ;” and every person 
who may be registered hereafter, under the provisions of this Act, shall be a member of 
the said College. 
111. There shall be a “ Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the 
Dominion of Canada,” to be appointed in the manner hereinafter provided for in this 
Act, and referred to in this Act as the “ General Council.” 
IY. The General Council shall be composed of twelve members, chosen from time to 
time by the Universities and bodies hereinafter designated, in accordance with the 
following plan ;—One person clioscn from time to time by each of the following bodies, 
that h to say : 
The University of McGill. 
The University of Laval. 
Bishop’s College, Lennoxville. 2 
The Montreal School of Medicine. 
Frederickton College, Flew Brunswick. 
College of Sackville, New Brunswick. 
The University of Victoria College. 
One person chosen from time to time by the University of Toronto and the Toronto 
School of Medicine, collectively or alternately, as may be agreed upon by the governing 
bodies of those Institutions. 
One person chosen from time to time by the University of Trinity College and the 
University of Ottawa, collectively or alternately, as may be agreed upon by the 
Governing bodies of those Institutions. 
One person chosen from time to time by the University of Queen’s College, and the 
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kingston, collectively or alternately, as may 
be aO. -'cd upon by the governing bodies of those institutions. 
One person chosen from time to time by King’s College and Acadia College, Nova 
Scotia, collectively or alternately, as may be agreed upon by the governing bodies of ho 
institutions. 
One person chosen from time to time by Dalhousie College, and St. Mary’s College, 
of Nova Scotia, collectively or alternately, as may be agreed upon by the governing 
bodies of those institutions and of twelve members to be elected in the manner herein- 
after provided from amongst the registered members of the Medical Profession in the 
Dominion of Canada, not employed as teachers in any of the Universities and 
bodies mentioned in this Act, by the registered members of the Medical Profession, in 
this Dominion, of whom four shall be residents of Ontario, four shall be residents of 
the Province of Quebec, two shall be residents of Nova Scotia, and two shall be residents 
of New Brunswick; provided always, that so soon as there shall be established in oper 
tion in any of the Provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, one 
or more Universities or Colleges other than those designated in this section, and 
authorized to establish a Medical Faculty in connection therewith, and to grant degree s 
or diplomas in medicine and surgery, it shall be competent for the Governor and Council, 
so to alter the representation of the aforesaid Universities and bodies, that the above 
proportion between the representatives in the General Council of the teaching bodies, a nd 
of the general profession ; and the above proportion between the representatives in the 
O.or.^vm --C 1 willing bodies in r-v •. ■ ■ s!i v%,f* IV. tdouiimon mat be 
preserved. 
When two or more Universities or bodies, are authorized under the preceding 
section to choose a member of Council, “ collectively or alternately, as may be agreed upon 
by the governing bodies of those institutions,” in case of the adoption of the plan 0f 
alternate choice, that institution, whose charter is of earliest date, shall have the right of 
exercising the first choice. 
V. Of the four members to be elected from the registered practitioners of t.]ie 
Provinces of Ontario and of Quebec respectively, one shall be so elected from each of tl m 
Electoral Divisions of the Provinces of Ontario and of Quebec respectively mentione d 
in Schedule A to this Act annexed, by the registered members of the Medica 1 
Profession, resident in such Divisions ; and of the two members to be elected from the 
registered members of Medical Profession of the Provinces of Nova Scotia and of New 
Brunswick respectively, one shall be so elected from each of the Electoral Divisions of th e 
Province of Nova Scotia and of New Brunswick respectively, mentioned in Schedule A *o 
this Act annexed, by the registered members of the Medical Profession, resident in such 
divisions, and the manner of holding such election shall be as follows : . 
The Registrar of every Branch Council shall cause to be prepared printed forms with 
blanks for the name of the person to be elected and the person voting, and shall transmit 
by mail a registered letter containing one of these forms bearing his own (the Registrar’s) 
signature to every registered member of the Medical Profession in the several Electoral 
Divisions of the Province, who shall apply for the same. The persons voting shall write 
the name of the person resident in his Electoral District, for whom he votes in the afore- 
said printed form, shall sign his name to the same, and shall transmit the form by mail in 3 
a registered letter, to the Registrar, on or before'"the day named for such election ip 
section XI of this Act. The General Council at the Annual Meeting immediately pre- 
ceding such Election, shall appoint Scrutineers to examine and count the vctOo, emu such 
person as shall have a majority of the votes from the Electoral Division in which he 
resides, shall be declared elected for such Division. 
It shall be the duty of the General Registrar immediately after the election to 
inform in writing the persons elected of their election. 
VI. At the first election under this Act of members of the General Council the 
term “ Registered Members of the Medical Profession in the Dominion of Canada,” used 
in Clause IV shall be held to mean persons of the 4< M( Ileal Profession licensed to prac- 
tice Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, in any of the Provinces of the Dominion of 
Canada. 
Branch Councils. 
VII. The members chosen by the Universities and Corporate bodies, and. those elected 
by the registered members of the Medical Profession of Ontario and Quebec, respectively, 
shall be the Branch Councils for such Provinces respectively • and the members chosen by 
the Universities and Corporate bodies, and those elected by the registered members of the 
Medical Profession of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, respectively, shall be the Branch 
Council for those two Provinces unitedly, to which branch councils shah' be abiegated such 
of the powers and duties vested in the General Council as the General Council may sev 
fit, other than the power to make representations to the Governor General in Council; 
the President shall be a member of all the Branch Councils. 
VIII. All members of the General Council representing the Universities and bodies 
mentioned in the 4th section must be registered. 
IX. The members of the General Council shall be aj-pointed or elected, as the case 
may be, for a period of three years ; but any member may resign his appointment at any 
time by letter addressed to the President or Registrar of the said Council ; and upon the 
death or resignation, or removal from electoral division, of any member of the said 
Council, it shall be the duty of the Registrar forthwith to notify the University or body, 
wherein such vacancy may occur, of such death, or resignation, or removal; and such 
University or body shall have the power to nominate another duly qualified person to fill 
such vacancy j or if the vacancy bn caused by the vUat.h turn, or removal j/oxo 
electoral division, of any member elected from the electoral divisions, the Registrar shall 
forthwith cause a new election to be made or held in such electoral division by a notice to 
be published in at least two newspapers, or medical periodicals, published or having a 
circulation in the said electoral division, for not less than two weeks, fixing the time for 
holding such election ; and such election shall be conducted as directed in section V of this 
Ac' ; but it shall be lawful for the Council during such vacancy to exercise the powers 
b vein a fter mentioned. 
X. The first election under this Act for members to represent the registered members 
of the medical profession shall take place within two months from the final passing of this 
Act; and the time and places at which such first election shall be held, and the persons 
who shall conduct the same shall be determined by the Governor General in Council; 
and the manner of conducting such election, shall be that defined in section V of this Act, 
the persons appointed to conduct it acting as though thev were the registrars and secretaries 
appointed by the Council. 
XI. Every subsequent election shall be held on the first Wednesday in July, in 
every third year after the said first election ; and it shall be the duty of the General 
Registrar to cause a notice of the time of holding the said election in at least two news- 
papers, or medical periodicals published, or having a circulation in each of the said 
electoral divisions in the several Provinces of the Dominion, for, at least, two weeks 
before the first Wednesday in July. 
XII. The General Council shall hold their first meeting in the City of Montreal, on 
the fifth Wednesday next after the first election, or at any other convenient period that 
the Governor General and Council may appoint, and shall make such rules and regulations 4 
as to tlie times of the subsequent meetings of the General Council, and the mode of 
summoning the same, as to them shall seem expedient, which rules and regulations 
shall remain in force till altered at any subsequent meeting, notice of such alteration 
having been given to Qach member of the Council one month, at least, previous to the 
time of holding such meeting; and in the absence of any rule or regulation as to 
the summoning of future meetings of the General Council, it shall be lawful for the 
President thereof, or in the event of his absence or death, for the Vice-President, on the 
requisition in writing of any two members of Council to summon the same, at such 
time as to him shall seem fit, by circular letter to be mailed to each member; and 
all meetings of the General Council, subsequent to the first, shall be held at Toronto and 
Montreal, alternately, at Halifax and St. John every alternate third year, and that at 
least four weeks notice of such meeting be given ; and in the event of the absence of the 
from any meeting, the Vice-President, or in his absence, some other member to 
be chosen from among the member’s present, shall act as Chairman; and all the acts of 
the General Council shall be decided by the majority of the members present, the whole 
number not being leiss than nine; and at all meetings the President, for the time being, 
shall have a vote only as a member of the Council. 
XIII. The General Council shall have power to appoint executive committees out of 
their own body, of which the quorum shall not be less than three, and to delegate to such 
committees SuJxx /ux the power and the duties vested in the General Council as tlie 
Council may see fit, o'her than the power of making representations to the Governor 
General in Council. 
XIV. There shall be paid to the members of the Council, only their actual 
expenses for travelling, board, and lodging. 
XV. The General Council shall annually elect from amongst themselves a President, 
and a Vice-President, and shall appoint, every third year, a General Treasurer, and a 
General Registrar, who shall act respectively as General Treasurer, and General Registrar 
and Secretary for the General Council; and the persons so appointed shall, likewise, act 
as Treasurer, and Registrar and Secretary for the Branch Council of the Province of 
Quebec; the General Council and the Branch Council for Quebec shall also appoint, 
from time to time, such other officers as may be needed for the purposes of this Act; and 
every person so appointed by any council shall be removable at the pleasure of that 
0011ficil; and. shall be, paid such salary or foes as the council by which he was appointed 
shan by hy-law, or from time to time. 
XVI. The branch council for Ontario, and that for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 
shall each respectively in like manner appoint a registrar and such other officers as may 
from time to time be needed for the working of this Act, who shall be paid such salaries 
or fees as such branch councils respectively shall think fit, and be removable at the 
pleasure of the council by which they were appointed, and the person appointed registrar 
shall also act as secretary to the branch council, and may also act as treasurer, unle +v 
council shall appoint some other person treasurer. 
XVII. All monies payable to the respective councils shall be paid to the treasurers of 
such councils respectively, and shall be applied to defray the expenses of carrying this 
Act into c:'~-ution in manner following; that is to say, separate accounts shall be kept of 
the expenses of the general council and of those of the branch coi mcils ; and the expenses 
of the General Council, including, those of keeping, printing, and publishing the register 
for the Dominion, shall be defrayed, under the direction of the general council, by means 
of an equal per centage rate upon all moneys received by the several branch councils ; 
returns shall be made by the treasurers of the respective branch councils, at such times 
as the General Councils shall direct, of all monies received by them, and the necessary 
per centage having been computed by the General Council, the respective contributions 
shall be paid by the treasurers of such branch councils to the Treasurer of the General 
Council; and the expenses of the branch councils shall be defrayed, under the direction 
of these councils respectively, out of the residue of the moneys so received as aforesaid. 
Should any surplus income remain after all the necessary expenses of any branch council 
have been paid, it shall be lawful for that branch council to apply all or any part of such 5 
surplus to any public purposes connected with tlie medical profession, or for the promo- 
tion of education in medicine and surgery, or for the advancement of medical or surgical 
science in any way, as shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members of the branch 
council interested. 
XYIII. The General Council shall cause to be kept by the General Registrar, a book, 
or register, to be called the general register, in which shall be entered, from time to time, 
the names of all persons who have complied with the enactments hereinafter contained, 
and with the rules 'or regulations made or to be made by the Council respecting the quali- 
fications to be required from practitioners of medicine, surgery, and midwifery in the 
several Provinces of the Dominion of Canada; and those persons only whose names have 
been or shall hereafter be inscribed in the general register above mentioned, or in the 
local registers hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed to be qualified and licensed to 
practise medicine, surgery, and midwifery in the several Provinces of the Dominion of 
Canada ; and both such general and such local books or registers shall at all times be open 
and Subject to Inopootfim by,any duly registered practitioner in the Dominion of Canada, 
or by any other person, on the payment of the fee of twenty-five cents. 
XIX. Where any person entitled to be registered under this Act applies to the 
Registrar of any of the said Branch Councils for that purpose, such Registrar shall forth- 
with enter in a local register, in the form set forth in Schedule (B) to this Act, or to the 
like effect, to be kept by him for that purpose, the name, and place of residence, and the 
qualification or several qualifications in respect of which the person is so entitled, and the 
date of the registration ; and shall, in the case of the Registrar of the Branch Council for 
Ontario or for Xora Scotia and Xew Brunswick, with all convenient speed send to the 
Registrar of the General Council a copy, certified under the hand of the Registrar, of the 
entry so made, and the Registrar of the General Council shall forthwith cause the same to 
be entered in the general register; and such Registrar shall also forthwith cause all 
entries made in the local register of the Province of Quebec to be entered in the general 
register, and the entry in the general register shall bear date from the local register. 
XX. It shall be the duty of the Registrars to keep their respectiv e registers correct 
in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the orders and regulations of the General 
Council, and to erase the names of all registered persons who shall have died, or removed 
from the Province, and shall from time to time make the necessary alterations in the 
addresses or qualifications of the persons registered under this Act; and to enable the 
respective Registrars duly to fulfil the duties imposed upon them, it shall be lawful for 
the Registrar to write a letter to any registered person, addressed to him according to his 
address on the register, to enquire whether he lias ceased to practice, or has changed his 
residence, and if no answer shall be returned to such letter within the period of six 
months from the sending of the letter, it shall be lawful to erase the name of such person 
from the register, provided always that, the same may be restored by direction of the 
General Council, should they think fit to make an order to that effect. 
XXI. Every member of the medical profession, who at the time of the passing of 
this Act, may be possessed of a license to practice medicine, surgery, and midwifery in any 
of the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, shall, on the payment of the fee of one dollar, 
be entitled to be registered on producing to the Registrar of the Branch Council for 
Ontario, Quebec, or Xova Scotia and Xew Brunswick, the document conferring or 
evidencing the qualification, or each of tire qualifications in respect whereof he seeks to be 
so registered, or upon transmitting by post to such registrar, information of his name and 
address, and evidence of the qualification or qualifications, in respect whereof he seeks to 
be registered, and of the time or times at which the same was or were respectively 
obtained, provided he register within one year after the final passing of this Act, and 
every member of the medical profession, who, within the period of six months after the 
final passing of this Act, shall have become possessed of such qualification or qualifications 
as would have entitled him at the time of passing this Act, to practice medicine, surgery, 
and midwifery in any of the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, shall, on complying 
with the requirements in this section mentioned, and on the payment of a fee to be fixed 
by a by-law of the General Council, but not to exceed ten dollars, be entitled to be 
registered. 6 
Any person who has been actually practising medicine, surgery, and midwifery in the 
Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, before the year one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-five, shall be entitled to be registered on his producing to the local or 
general registrar, in affidavit made before a Justice of the Peace, establishing the fact, 
and shall pay a fee to be fixed by the General Council. 
XXII. Every member of the medical profession desirous of being registered under 
this Act, and who shall not have been possessed of a license to practice medicine, surgery, 
and midwifery in any of the aforesaid Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, before the 
expiration of six months after the final passing of this Act, shall, before being entitled to 
registration, pass an examination as to his knowledge and skill for the efficient practice 
of medicine, surgery, and midwifery, before one of the examining boards appointed by the 
General Council, and obtain a degree or diploma from one of the Universities, or bodies 
mentioned in section TV of this Act, or from any other body or University which may be 
hereafter authorised to establish a medical faculty in connection therewith, and to grant 
degrees or diplomas in medicine and surgery in Canada, or from any other University 
or College, whose general and professional requirements may be accepted by the General 
Council as equivalent to its own, and such person having further proved to the satisfac- 
tion of the Board of Examiners, before whom he is examined, that he has complied with 
the rules and regulations made by the Council, and having paid such fees as the Council 
may detetmine, shall be entitled to be registered to practice medicine, surgery, and 
midwifery in any part of the Dominion of Canada. 
XXIII. All persons registered under the Imperial “ Medical Act” 21 and 22 Viet., 
Chap. 90, or under any Act amending the same, shall be entitled to registration under 
this Act and shall enjoy all benefits appertaining to such registration, provided the same 
privileges be accorded to registered members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
of the Dominion of Canada in Great Britain. 
XXIV. Where any medical diploma, degree or title, granted by any University 
College, or body in Great Britain, or in any British possession other than the Dominion 
of Canada, or in any foreign country is granted in the respect of the like degree of 
knowledge and the like education to that which is required for obtaining registration 
under this Act, the General Medical Council may from time to time place such diploma 
degree or title, upon a list to be kept and published by them, and if at any time any 
such medical diploma, degree or title cease to be granted in respect of such like degree 
of knowledge or education as aforesaid, they may remove the same from such list. 
All holders of any medical diploma, degree or title, placed upon such list, shall be 
entitled to be registered under this Act, with or without examination, and on such terms 
as the General Medical Council may from time to time determine. 
No person who has obtained any such medical diploma, degree or title before the 
same is added to such list or the earlier date if any, (whether before or after the passing 
of this Act) fixed by the General Medical Council, shall be entitled to be so registered, 
and the removal of any diploma, degree, or title from such list, shall not deprive any 
person entitled to be registered before such removal of his right to be so registered. 
Where the General Medical Council are satisfied of the eminent professional 
acquirements and character of any person who for more than ten years has been 
practising medicine or surgery in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, or in any 
British possession or foreign state, they may, by a special order direct such person to be 
registered under this Act, and such person may be registered accordingly. 
XXV. At the first regular meeting of the General Council, after the final passing 
of this Act, and at the first regular meeting of the same after every Triennial Election, 
there shall be appointed by the members of the General Council three Boards of 
Examiners, one for Ontario, one for Quebec, and one for the two Provinces of Nova 
Scotia and New Brunswick, whose duty it shall be to examine all candidates for regis- 
tration, in accordance with the bye-laws, rules, and regulations of the General Council; 
such examinations to be held in Toronto for the Province of Ontario, in Montreal for the 
Province of Quebec, and in Halifax and St. John, alternately, for the two Provinces of 
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 7 
XXYI. The Boards of Examiners appointed under the preceding section, shall be 
composed as follows :—Two-thirds of the members of the Ontario Examining Board shall 
be elected from the three incorporated medical schools now existing in Ontario, and from 
every other school of medicine which may be hereafter organized in connection with any 
University or College, which is empowered by law to grant medical and surgical degrees 
or diplomas, each body being represented as far as possible by an equal number ; and one- 
third shall be chosen from among the Ontario members of the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Canada, not employed in teaching in any of the above teaching bodies. 
The Quebec Examining Board shall consist of a French and an English section;— 
of the French section, two-thirds shall be elected from the two incorporated French 
medical schools now existing in the Province of Quebec, and from every other French 
school of medicine which may be hereafter organized in connection with any University 
or College which is empowered by law to grant medical and surgical degrees or diplomas, 
each body being represented as far as possible by an equal number, and one-third shall be 
chosen from the French speaking Quebec members of the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Canaria, not employod in teaching any of the above teaching bodies. 
Of the English section, two-thirds shall be elected from the Incorporated English 
Medical School now existing in the Province of Quebec, and the Medical School of 
Dalhousie College, Nova Scotia, each body being represented, as far as imssxoie, oy an 
equal number, and one-third shall be chosen from the English speaking Quebec member 
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada not employed in teaching any of the 
above teaching bodies; provided always that so soon as another English School of 
Medicine shall be organised in the Province of Quebec in connection with any University 
or College in that Province which is empowered by law +o grant medical and surgical 
degrees or diplomas, then two thirds of the Examining Board shall be elected from the 
English Incorporated Medical Schools then existing in the Province of Quebec, each body 
being represented, as far as possible, by an equal number, and one-third shall be chosen 
from among the English speaking Quebec members of the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Canada, not employed in teaching in any of the above teaching bodies. 
Two-thirds of the members of the Examining Board of the two Provinces of Nova 
Scotia and New Brunswick shall be elected from the Medical School now existing in 
Nova Scotia, and the Incorporated English Medical School in the Province of Quebec, 
each body being represented, as far as possibld, by an equal number, and one-third shall 
be chosen from the New Brunswick members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
of the Dominion of Canada, not engaged in teaching in any of the above teeching bodies ; 
provided always that so soon as another Medical School shall be organised in either the 
Province of Nova Scotia or of New Brunswick, in connection with any University or 
College in either Province which is empowered to grant medical and surgical degrees or 
diplomas, then two-thirds of the Examining Board shall be chosen from the Incorporated 
Medical Schools then existing in the two Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 
each body and each Province being represent .os rar as possible, by an equal number, 
and one-third shall be chosen from amongst the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 
members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Dominion of Canada not 
employed in teaching in any of the above teaching bodies. 
XXVII. The General Council shall have power and authority to appoint examiners 
to institute and conduct the examination of Medical Students in preliminary or general 
education, and to make by-laws and regulations for determining the admission and enrol- 
ment of students ; and the examiners shall be persons engaged in general teaching, and 
officially connected with the Universities, Colleges, or Seminaries of the Dominion. 
The following shall be the subjects for such preliminary examination :—Compulsory : 
English or French language, according to nationality of student, including grammar and 
composition ; history, geography, arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions; 
including algebra, simple equations; geometry, first two books of Euclid ; Latin, trans. 
ation and grammar; and one of the following optional subjects: Greek, French or 
English, according to nationality of student, German, natural philosophy, including 
mechanics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics. 8 
(2.) Any Graduate in Arts of any University in Her Majesty’s Dominions shall not 
be required to pass the examination in general education. 
XXYIII. The General Council shall have power and authority to fix and determine, 
from time to time, a curriculum of professional studies to be pursued by Medical 
Students, of which the following shall be the minimum : 
Descriptive Anatomy, Practical Anatomy, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Institutes of 
Medicince, consisting of Physiology and General Pathology, Theory and Practice of 
Medicine, Principles and Practice of Surgery, Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and 
Children, of each of which two courses of six months shall be required ; 
Clinical Medicine and Clinical Surgery, of each of which one course of six months, 
or two courses of three months, shall be required ; Botany, Medical Jurisprudence, 
Practical Chemistry, and Public Hygiene, of each of which one three mouths’ course 
shall be required : 
Practical Pharmacy, for a period of three months attendance during twelve 
months, the practise of a general hospital, where daily average of in-door patients is not 
less than fifty: 
Attendance on the practice of a lying-in hospital for six; months, or evidence of 
having attended six cases of midwifery. 
The time of commencing the professional education of medical students shall date 
from the time of having passed the preliminary examination required under this Act, and 
shall extend over a period of not less than four years. 
Such curriculum of studies shall be observed and taught, and the above period occu- 
pied in professional study shall be adhered to by all Universities or bodies referred to in 
Section 4 of this Act • Provided always, that the above duration of professional education 
and curriculum of preliminary and professional studies shall, before being altered, first 
receive the approval of the Governor General in Council, and be published twice in the 
Canada Gazette and in each one of the medical journals published in the several Provinces 
of the Dominion, and that no change in the foregoing minimum curriculum at any time 
existing shall come into effect until six months after its first publication in the said 
Canada Gazette. 
XXIX. Xo Medical School, other than those now in actual operation, shall be 
established after the passing of this Act, in any part of the Dominion of Canada, unless 
with the consent and approval of the General Medical Council. 
XXX. The General Council shall, from time to time, as occasion may require, 
enact orders, regulations or by-laws for regulating the registers to be kept under this Act, 
and the fees to be paid for registration ; and shall, from time to time, make rules and 
regulations for the guidance of the Boards of Examiners, and may prescribe the subjects 
and mode of examination, the times of holding the same, and generally make all such 
rules and regulations in respect of such examinations, not contrary to the provisions of 
this Act, as they may deem expedient and necessary; such examinations to be oral, 
written and practical. 
XXXI. Any person entitled to be registered under this Act, but who shall neglect or 
omit to be so registered, shall not be entitled to any of the rights or privileges conferred 
by the provisions of this Act, so long as such neglect or omission continues. 
XXXII. Any Begistrar who shall wilfully make, or cause to &c made, any falsifica- 
tion in any matters relating to the register, shall incur a penalty of fifty dollars, and shall 
be disqualified from again holding thot position. 
XXXIII. Every person registered under this Act, who may have obtained any higher 
degree, or any qualification other than the qualification in respect of which he may have 
been registered, shall be entitled to have such higher degree or additional qualification 
inserted in the register in substitution for, or in addition to, the qualification previously 
registered, on the payment of such fee as the Council may appoint; provided such higher 
degree or additional qualification receive the approval of the General Council, either by 
vote or by-law. 
XXXIV. Xo qualification shall be entered on the register either on the first 
registration, or by way of addition to a registered name, unless the Registrar be satisfied 9 
by propel’ evidence that the person claiming is entitled to it; and any appeal from the 
decision of the Registrar may be decided by the Branch Council of the Province, or by 
further appeal to the General Council ; and any entry which shall be proved to the satis- 
faction of such Branch, or General Council, to have been fradulently or incorrectly made, 
may be erased from the register by order in writing of such Branch, or General Council : 
Provided always, that in the event of the Registrar being dissatisfied with the evidence 
adduced by the person claiming to be registered, he shall have the power, subject to an 
appeal to the Council, of refusing the said registration, until the person claiming to be 
registered shall have furnished such evidence, duly attested by oath or affirmation before 
any Justice of the Peace in the Province in which he resides. 
XXXV. Every person who shall be registered under this Act shall be entitled, 
according to his qualifications, to practise Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, or any of 
them, as the case may be, in any part of the Dominion of Canada, and to demand and 
recover in any Court of Law, with full costs of suit, reasonable charges for professional 
aid, advice and visits, and the cost of any medicine, or other medical or surgical appli- 
ances rendered or supplied hy him to his patients, and for medical testimony in Courts of 
Law, and for written medical certificates : Provided always, that no person not entitled 
to registration, within six months after the commencement of this Act, shall be registered 
upon any single qualification as that of Physician or Surgeon or Accoucher, hut must 
have passed the examination in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, and complied with the 
other requirements mentioned in Clause XXII of this Act. as qualifying for registration. 
AVhen a person has obtained, before the passing of this Act, a qualification to practise in 
Medicine, or in Surgery, or in Midwifery, or in any two of these departments, but not 
in all of them, and persons may be admitted to the examinations under this Act on such 
special terms as may be provided on that behalf by the General Council. 
XXXYI. The Registrar of the General Council [shall, from time to time, under the 
direction of the General Council, cause to be printed and published a correct register of 
the names in alphabetical order, according to the surnames, with the respective residences, 
in the form set forth in schedule B to this Act, or to the like effect, together with the 
medical titles, diplomas and qualifications conferred by any college or body, with the 
dates thereof, of all persons appearing on the register as existing on the day of publica- 
tion'; and such .register shall be .nailed “ The Medical Register,” and a copy of such 
register for the time being, purporting to be so printed and published as aforesaid, shall 
be primd facie evidence in all Courts, and before all Justices of the Peace aud others, 
that the persons therein specified are registered acccrding to the provisions of this Act; 
and the absence of the name of any person from such cepy shall be primd facie evidence 
that such person is not registered according to the provisions of this Act; Provided 
always, that in the case of any person whose name does not appear in such copy, a 
cei tined copj- the hand of the Registrar of the General Council, or of any Branch 
Council, of the entry of the name of such person on the register, shall be evidence that 
t,ach person is registered under the provisions of this Act. 
XXXVII. Any registered mein her of the medical profession who shall have been 
convicted of any felony in any court, or who shall, after due enquiry, be judged hy the 
General Council to have been guilty of infamous conduct fin any professional respect, 
shall thereby forfeit his right to registration, and, by the direction of the General 
Council, his name shall he erased from the Register ; or in case a person known to have 
been convicted of felony, or judged guilty of such infamous conduct, shall present himself 
for registration, the Registrar shall have power to refuse such registration. 
XXXVIII. No person shall be entitled to recover any charge in any Court of Law 
for any Medical or Surgical advice, or for attendance, or for the performance of any 
operation, or for any medicine which be shall have prescribed or supplied, unless he shall 
prove upon trial that he is registered under this Act. 
XXXIX. Every person registered under this Act shall jbe exempt, if he shaii so 
desire, from serving on all juries and inquests whatsoever, and from all corporate town- 
ship offices, and from serving in the militia. 10 
XL. No person stall be appointed as Medical Officer, Physician, Or Surgeon in any 
branch of the Public Service in any of the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, or in any 
Hospital hr other Charitable Institution in any of the aforesaid Provinces not supported 
wholly by voluntary contributions, unless be be registered under the provisions of this Act. 
XLI. No certificate required by any Act now in force, or that may hereafter be passed 
in any part of the Dominion of Canada, from any Physician or Surgeon or Medical Prac- 
titioner, shall be valid unless the person signing the same be registered under this Act. 
XLII. If any peison shall wilfully procure or attempt to procure himself to be registered 
under this Act, by making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or frau- 
dulent representation or declaration, either verbally or in writing, every such person so offend- 
ing, and every person knowingly aiding and assisting him therein shall incur a penalty of fifty 
dollars. 
XLIII. Any person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be a professor of medicine, 
professor of surgery, physician, doctor of medicine, bachelor of medicine, licentiate in medicine 
and surgery, master of surgery, surgeon, or general practioner, or shall falsely take or use any 
name, title, addition, or description implying that he is a physician, surgeon, or accoucheur, 
or a licentiate in medicine,- surgery or midwifery, or a practitioner in medicine, shall upon a 
summary conviction before any Justice of the Peace, for any such offence, pay a sum not 
exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars. 
XLIV. The General Council and also any Branch Council may take proceedings against 
any person for the contravention of Clauses XLII and XLIII of this Act, and no prosecution 
for the contravention of these sections, shall be instituted by any private person, except with 
the consent of the General Council or of some Branch Council,—and all penalties imposed by 
this Act shall be recoverable, with full costs of suit by the General Council, or by any Branch 
Council in the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Dominion of Canada. 
XLY. Any sum or sums of money arising from conviction and recovery of penalties as 
aforesaid shall be paid to the Treasurer of the General Council. 
XLYI. All notices and documents required by this Act to be sent, may be transmitted 
by post, and shall be deemed to have been received at the time when the letter containing 
the same would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post; and in proving such 
sending, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice or document 
was pre-paid, and properly addressed and put in the post. Notices and documents may 
■ >c in writing or in print, pr partly Jn writing and partly in print. 
XLYII. The General' Council may make representations to the Governor General in 
Council upon sanitary subjects, and when called upon shall give its opinion respecting 
matters touching the Public health. 
XLYIII. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to Manitoba, but as regards that 
Province or any other that may be hereafter added to tire Dominion of Canada, it shall bo 
competent for tire Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the General 
Council and with consent of such Province or Provinces, to extend the |>n|T 'Guns or in .. 
Act to such Province or Provinces, the representation in Count* of -h additional pro- 
vince or Provinces to be proportionate to that of the Provinces now ■ ■ •: represented by 
the terms of ibis Act. 
XLIX. All Acts in the several Provinces of the Dominion of Canada inconsistent 
with this I. ct are hereby repealed.