JUNE 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2089

3. Period of Training for Nurses.

(1) The period of not less than three years’ approved training as
a nurse required to be had by every person seeking to be registered
as a nurse under Part II of the said Act shall be one of the periods
prescribed by this regulation.

(2) No person shall be accepted for training as a nurse, or shall be
deemed to have commenced a period of training, until such person
has—

(a) Served in an approved hospital or a limited-training hospital
a period of probation of at least three months; and

(b) At the end of that period been recommended as a person suitable
for training by the Matron of the hospital where such
period was served to the governing body of the hospital at
which such person proposes to be trained as a nurse.

(3) The period of training for nurses shall be either—

(a) A period of not less than three years in an approved hospital;
or

(b) A period of not less than one year in a limited-training hospital,
followed by a period of not less than two years and six
months in an approved hospital.

(4) (a) Except as hereinafter provided, the whole duration of the
period of training required to be undergone in an approved hospital
or in a limited-training hospital respectively shall be undergone in
one such hospital only.

(b) A person unable to complete a period of training in one hospital
may, under special conditions to be approved by the Board in each
case, be allowed to complete such period in another hospital.

(c) Any period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate six months
spent by a person undergoing training in a subsidiary hospital under
the control and administration of the governing body of an approved
hospital or limited-training hospital shall for the purposes of this
regulation be deemed to be part of the period of training undergone in
such main approved hospital or limited-training hospital, subject to
the conditions—

(i) That such subsidiary hospital is a consumptive sanatorium,
chronic ward, fever ward, cottage hospital, or similar institution; and

(ii) That such subsidiary hospital is at all times managed by a
nurse registered under the said Act.

(5) The governing body of any approved hospital or limited-training
hospital shall not without the consent of the Board terminate the
training of any person who has commenced a course of training at
such hospital until the expiration of the term of training required by
this regulation, and when with the consent aforesaid the training of
any person has been so terminated the governing body shall give the
Registrar notification thereof.

4. Course of Instruction for Nurses.

(1) The approved course of instruction in theoretical and practical
nursing required to be received by every person seeking to be registered
as a nurse under Part II of the said Act shall be the course prescribed
by this regulation.

(2) Every pupil-nurse shall during the whole of her period of training
receive from the Matron, or from some registered nurse deputed by the
Matron in that behalf, practical instruction in nursing in the wards of
the hospital.

(3) Every pupil-nurse shall attend courses of lectures comprising
the whole of the subjects set out in the Third Schedule hereto and such
other subjects as the Board may from time to time by notice to the
governing body of the hospital require.

(4) All such lectures shall be delivered by registered medical
practitioners, registered nurses, or other competent instructors approved
by the Board.

(5) Such courses of lectures shall be so delivered that every pupil-
nurse may attend the same as nearly as possible at regular intervals
during her period of training.

(6) Unless otherwise approved by the Board, every pupil-nurse
shall during the final year of her course at an approved hospital attend
at least twenty-four, during the previous year attend at least eighteen,
and during the first year of her course at an approved hospital or
(if she has previously undergone training at a limited-training hospital)
during the first six months of her course at an approved hospital,
attend at least twelve of such lectures of one hour each.