Some changes to this Act were made in amending Acts passed in 1951, 19 but the main provisions are those which are contained in the 1927 Act. The present legislation regulating the registration and control of persons practising the profession of medicine is contained in the Medical Practitioners Act, 1927.
What the Bill proposes to do, in this respect, is: first, to make certain provisions related to the requirements for the education and training of persons seeking entry of their names in the statutory registers of medical practitioners secondly, to reserve certain rights and privileges to persons so registered thirdly, to provide for the mechanism whereby the name of a person can be erased or suspended from any register or have conditions attached to continuing registration and, fourthly, to make it an offence for any person falsely to represent himself to be a registered medical practitioner when he is not so registered. Most of us do this, to some extent, regularly, either by way of self-medication or by advising our families, our friends or our colleagues. This Bill does not aim at preventing anybody from practising medicine in the widest sense. I shall have more to say about the constitution, membership and functions generally of these two bodies later but first I would like to make some general comments about the new legislation. The second body is the Post-graduate Medical and Dental Board the establishment of which is provided for in Chapter 2 of Part IV of the Bill. The first of these is the Medical Council, the establishment of which is provided for in Part II of the Bill. In aiming to achieve these purposes, the Bill provides for the establishment of two new bodies. The main purposes of this Bill are to bring up to date the legislation dealing with the requirements for the registration and control of persons engaged in the practice of medicine, including the standards of education and training needed for such registration, and to provide for the better promotion and co-ordination of post-graduate medical and dental education and training. Appearing before an Oireachtas committee.
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