Dec. 23.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

3441

Regulations under the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925.
(H. 2/31.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of
December, 1925.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by
the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), and of all other powers enabling him
in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the
regulations set out in the First Schedule hereto, and in lieu thereof
doth hereby make the following regulations under and for the purposes
of the said Act; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations
shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-six.

REGULATIONS.
PART I.
TRAINING, EXAMINATION, AND REGISTRATION OF NURSES, MATERNITY
NURSES, AND MIDWIVES.

Nurses.

1. (1.) The governing body of every hospital which desires to
   establish at the hospital a training-school for nurses and to have it
   approved for the purposes of the said Act shall apply for such
   approval to the Registrar, and shall in such application set out
   the names of the persons who will constitute the teaching staff.
   (2.) No hospital shall be approved by the Board as a training-
   school for nurses unless -
   (a.) The Matron or Superintendent of Nurses is a nurse registered
   under the said Act and approved by the Board:
   (b.) There can be given at the hospital the course of instruction
   hereinafter referred to; and
   (c.) The other requirements in regard to the training of nurses
   hereinafter set out can be adequately complied with.
   (3.) The Board may, if the provisions of these regulations are not
   complied with or if the course of training provided at the hospital is
   not satisfactory, cancel its approval of a hospital as a training-school
   for nurses upon giving to the governing body thereof not less than
   three months' notice of its intention so to do.

2. The governing body of every hospital approved as a training-
   school for nurses shall cause to be notified to the Registrar the names
   of all pupil-nurses within four months after the commencement of
   their training.

3. Before being accepted for the full course of training as a nurse,
   pupil-nurses shall serve a term of probation of at least three months,
   and at the end of that period shall be recommended to the Hospital
   Board by the Matron as suitable for training.

4. The proposed termination by the governing body of the hospital
   of the training of a pupil-nurse before she has completed the prescribed three years of training shall, with the cause thereof, be notified
   by the said body to the Registrar, whose consent shall be necessary
   before the course may be so terminated.

5. Under special conditions, to be approved by the Registrar,
   pupil-nurses unable to complete a course of training in one hospital
   approved as a training-school may be allowed to make up the full
   period in another approved training-school.

6. (1.) The course of training for nurses shall be of not less than
   three years' duration: Provided that the Board may, if it thinks
   fit, allow a pupil-nurse to present herself for final examination after
   the completion of two years and eleven months of training if she is
   otherwise eligible.
   (2.) The pupil-nurses shall be given practical instruction in the
   wards of the hospital by the Matron, or her deputy, who must also be
   a registered nurse.

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