✨ Masseurs Registration Regulations
- Any notification required by the said Act or these regulations
to be given to any applicant for registration, whether before or after
registration, shall be sufficient if sent by registered-post letter signed
by the Registrar addressed to the applicant at the address stated by
him in his application, or any fresh address notified as hereinafter
provided.
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Any documents submitted with an application for registration
may be returned to the applicant by registered-post letter to the
address given in the application, or to any fresh address notified as
hereinafter provided. -
Any applicant may either, before or after registration, by
writing addressed to the Board, notify a fresh address, and the Registrar
may make an entry of such fresh address in the register. -
The following certificates as a masseur shall be recognized by
the Registrar as sufficient certificates under paragraph (b) of sub-
section (1) of section 6 of the said Act, namely :—
(a.) Complete certificate of the Chartered Society of Massage and
Medical Gymnastics (England).
(b.) Complete certificate of the Incorporated Society of Trained
Masseurs (England).
(c.) Australian Massage Association’s certificate.
(d.) Swedish Government certificate.
(e.) New Zealand Defence Department’s certificate in massage and
medical electricity, together with the certificate for remedial
exercises granted after the necessary course of study at the
Otago Training School of Massage established at the Dunedin
Public Hospital, and with subsequent passing of the Masseurs
Registration Board’s Massage Examination :
Provided that if any person holding a certificate in massage from
the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics, the In-
corporated Society of Trained Masseurs, or the Swedish Government
(other than a complete certificate) desires to complete the examination
in the remaining subject or subjects as for a complete certificate, and
for this purpose makes application to the Board on or before the
30th day of June, 1926, such person shall be permitted to complete
training at the Otago Training School of Massage aforesaid on or
before the 30th day of June, 1928, in the subject or subjects necessary
to comply with the requirements of paragraph (b) of subsection (1)
of section 6 of the said Act, and upon passing the Masseurs Registration
Board’s Massage Examination in such subject or subjects shall be
entitled to registration by the Board as a masseur.
(4.) EXAMINATION.
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The Board may from time to time arrange for the holding of
examinations in both theoretical and practical massage, and may
fix the times and places at which examinations shall be held, and the
dates by which applications for examination must be received. -
The Board may from time to time appoint suitable persons to
be examiners, and may fix and pay such remuneration to the examiners
as the Board may think fit. -
The Board may make arrangements for the conduct of examina-
tions, and may employ and pay supervisors and hire examination-
rooms. -
The Supervisor may require any candidate presenting himself
at an examination to furnish such proof of identity as the Supervisor
may require. -
Application to be examined shall be in accordance with Form E
in the First Schedule hereto. -
The Training School of Massage maintained at the Dunedin
Public Hospital by the Otago Hospital Board is hereby recognized
as a school for massage for the purposes of the said Act. -
The Dunedin Public Hospital aforesaid is hereby approved as
an institution for training in practical massage for the purposes of
the said Act. -
The course of instruction prescribed for the purposes of the said
Act shall be the course set out in the Third Schedule hereto, and the
examinations to be conducted by the Board shall comprehend the
syllabus included in the said course of instruction.
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1925, No 86
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NZ Gazette 1925, No 86
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Regulations under the Masseurs Registration Act, 1920
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🏥 Health & Social Welfare14 December 1925
Masseurs, Registration, Regulations, Executive Council, Certificates, Examinations