New Zealand Gazette – 1925 – No. 86

Page 3437

✨ Masseurs Registration Application Form

Dec. 23.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(c.) Please read the extract from the Masseurs Registration Act,
1920, quoted on the back hereof.

1. What is your full name?	...
2. What is your permanent address?	...
3. Give the day, month, and year of your birth	...
4. Before you can sit for examination, the Board re-	Surname. Christian Names.
quires you to produce evidence that you have	(Give here Particulars of any
been through a course of—	certificates or evidence you
(a.) Instruction in anatomy and physiology	are attaching.)
and theoretical massage; and
(b.) Training in practical massage accord-
ing to requirements of section 6 of Act printed
on the back hereof.

Date: ……………….. Signature: ………………………………
Received an amount of £1. (Post-office Stamp.)
…………………….., Receiver.

[To be printed on back of form.]
ENDORSEMENT.

Extract from Section 6 of Masseurs Registration Act, 1920.

(1.) Every person, on payment of the prescribed fee, is entitled to be
registered as a masseur under this Act who satisfies the Masseurs Registration
Board that he is of good character and repute, and that—

(b.) He has received satisfactory training as a masseur and is the holder
of a certificate as a masseur granted after an examination in both
theoretical and practical massage (including medical electricity,
remedial exercises, and other branches of physio-therapy) and recognized
by the Registrar pursuant to regulations in that behalf as
a sufficient certificate for the purposes of this Act; or
(c.) He has passed an examination under this Act in both theoretical and
practical massage after a course of—
(i.) Not less than six months’ instruction in anatomy and physiology
and theoretical massage (including medical electricity, remedial
exercises, and other branches of physio-therapy) at a school for massage
recognized for the purposes of this Act pursuant to regulations in
that behalf; and
(ii.) Not less than six months’ training in practical massage
(including medical electricity, remedial exercises, and other branches
of physio-therapy) at a public hospital or other institution approved
for the purposes of this Act pursuant to regulations in that behalf
(in the case of persons registered under the Nurses Registration Act,
1908), or not less than twelve months’ such training in any other case.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
FEES.
UPON application to be examined (under section 6 (1) (c) of £ s. d.
the said Act) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 0 0
Upon application for registration (under any clause of
section 6 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 0 0
For every certificate of registration under section 7 ... ... 0 10 0

THIRD SCHEDULE.
PERIOD OF TRAINING.
The course of training shall extend over a period of not less than
eighteen months, and shall include—
Eight hours' instruction weekly, during not less than forty-eight
weeks, in the theory and practice of massage and medical
gymnastics.
Two hours' instruction weekly, during not less than forty-eight
weeks, in elementary medicine and surgery.
Five hours' instruction weekly, during not less than forty-eight
weeks, in anatomy and physiology, which may include the
demonstrations on dissections.
A minimum of 125 hours' instruction in the theory and practice
of medical electricity. The practical work (100 hours) must
be carried out on patients and under approved supervision.