Section 10
Section 13 of the principal Act is amended—
of Medical (Amendment) Act 2012
(a)
by substituting for subsection (1a) the following subsection:
“(1a) For the purposes of subsection (2) there shall be established a committee to be known as the Medical Qualifying Committee consisting of the following members:
(a)
the President as Chairman;
(b)
four members of the Council nominated from and representing the recognised local universities and university colleges and appointed by the
Chairman;
(c)
four representatives from the Ministry of Health;
and
(d)
four other members of the Council nominated from those not representing the recognised local universities and university colleges and appointed by the Chairman.”;
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(b)
in subsection (2)—
(i)
by substituting for the word “Board” wherever it appears the word “Committee”; and
(ii)
by substituting for the words “evidence thereof”
the words “determined by the Council from time to time”;
(c)
in subsection (4), by inserting after the word “disability”
the words “or any other reason as determined by the
Council”;
(d)
by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsection:
“(4a) Notwithstanding paragraph 12(1)(aaa), the
Council may consider any person who is a non citizen and not a spouse of a citizen studying in any recognised local training institution to be provisionally registered for the purpose of obtaining the experience as provided in subsection (2).”; and
(e)
in subsection (9), by substituting for the words “medicine, surgery or obstetric and gynaecology” the word
“Medicine”.
Amendment of section 14