June 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2087

Regulations under the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925.
(H. 2/72.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of June, 1928.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 regulations hereby made shall come into force on the date of publication hereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. PRELIMINARY.

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Nurses and Midwives Regulations, 1928.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
“Board” means the Nurses and Midwives Registration Board:
“Matron” includes a Superintendent of Nurses:
“Approved hospital” means a hospital for the time being approved by the Board as a training-school for nurses:
“Limited-training hospital” means a hospital for the time being approved by the Board for limited-training purposes:
“Recognized hospital” means a hospital for the time being recognized by the Board as a training-school for midwives and maternity nurses:
“Maternity training-school” means a hospital for the time being recognized by the Board as a training-school for maternity nurses but not for midwives:
“Pupil nurse” means a person who has been accepted by the governing body of an approved hospital or limited-training hospital for training as a nurse:
“Trainee” means a person who has been accepted by the governing body of a recognized hospital or maternity training-school for training as a midwife or maternity nurse.

(3) The determination of the Board on any matter confided to it under the said Act or these regulations shall be sufficiently authenticated if set out in writing signed by the Registrar or by the Secretary of the Board.

(4) The approval heretofore given by the Board under the regulations set out in the First Schedule hereto of the hospitals named in the First and Second Parts of the Second Schedule hereto as training-schools for nurses, and as limited-training hospitals, respectively, and the recognition by the Board of the hospitals named in the Third and Fourth Parts of the said Second Schedule as training-schools for midwives and maternity nurses and as training-schools for maternity nurses respectively, shall enure for the purposes of these regulations as if such approval or recognition had been lawfully given under these regulations and shall where necessary be deemed to have been so given:
Provided that nothing contained in this clause shall prejudice the power of the Board to revoke its approval or recognition of any hospital named in the said Second Schedule under the powers conferred by clause (6) of Regulation 2 hereof and by clause (6) of Regulation 7 hereof respectively.

(5) Generally all notices, periods, matters, and things which originated under the regulations set out in the First Schedule hereto shall enure for the purposes of these regulations as if they had originated under these regulations, and shall where necessary be deemed to have so originated.

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