Medical Practitioners Registration Ordinance 1967

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

AMENDMENTS TO THE A.C.T. MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
REGISTRATION ORDINANCE 1930-1966

No. 14 of 1967

	The Medical Board of the Australian Capital Territory, constituted under the above Ordinance, has recommended that the Ordinance be amended to enable the Board to issue, on application by a body engaged or interested in teaching or research in medicine or surgery, a permit to a medical practitioner to practise in the A.C.T. for the purpose of teaching or research.  The permit shall be limited to a specified branch of medicine and a specified period of time not exceeding twelve months.

	The amendment will enable distinguished men in the medical profession, invited by a learned body to lecture in the Territory, to also demonstrate techniques of treatment in the field of their specialty.  It will also enable overseas research scholars to carry out medical research in the Territory if sponsored by an appropriate body.

R.W.S.