2090
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

(7) Every pupil-nurse shall as part of her training and in the course of her period of training pass the following examinations to be held at or in connection with the hospital:—
(a) An examination in elementary anatomy and elementary physiology:
(b) An examination in general nursing, medical nursing, surgical nursing, and hygiene:
(c) An examination in cookery for invalids.
(8) (a) The said examination in anatomy and physiology shall be passed after not less than twelve months of the period of training have elapsed:
(b) The said examination in nursing and hygiene shall be passed after not less than two years and nine months of the period of training have elapsed:
(c) The said examination in cookery may be passed at any time during the course of training:
(d) For the purposes of this clause the period of training of not less than one year permitted to be undergone in a limited-training hospital shall be computed as six months.
(9) The said examinations shall be conducted by the Matron or members of the teaching staff or other competent persons, and the Board may from time to time approve the standard of any such examination and require from the governing body of any approved hospital such evidence as it may think necessary of the standard required to pass any such examination.
(10) The governing body shall give to every candidate who has passed any of the aforesaid examinations a certificate to that effect in a form provided from time to time by the Board.
(11) The governing body of every approved hospital shall cause the lectures required by this regulation to be delivered, and the examinations required by this regulation to be conducted, and shall provide for the purposes of such lectures and the general instruction of pupil-nurses, and so as to be available at reasonable times for the use of pupil-nurses, the following,—
(a) Human skeleton or model thereof; and
(b) Suitable diagrams; and
(c) Such text-books and reference-books as may from time to time be required by the Board; and
(d) Such other equipment as the Board may from time to time require.

5. Final Qualifying Examination for Nurses.

(1) The examination for nurses required to be passed by every person seeking to be registered as a nurse under Part II of the said Act shall be an examination conducted by the Board in the subjects set out in the said Third Schedule and such other subjects as the Board may have notified under clause (3) of Regulation 4 hereof.
(2) No person shall present herself for examination who has not on the date of the commencement of the examination attained the age of twenty-one years:
Provided that nothing in this clause shall entitle any person to registration before attaining the age of twenty-two years except as provided in section 19 of the said Act.
(3) No person shall present herself for examination who has not on the date of the commencement of the examination completed the period of training prescribed by Regulation 3 hereof:
Provided that on special application being made the Board may, if it thinks fit, permit any person who is otherwise eligible to present herself for final examination after the completion of a period of training of two years and ten months in an approved hospital, or of one year in a limited-training hospital, followed by two years and four months in an approved hospital, as the case may be.
(4) No person shall present herself for examination who has not on the date of the commencement of the examination undergone the course of instruction prescribed by Regulation 4 hereof, except in pursuance of any special permission granted under the last preceding clause hereof.
(5) The passing of the examination by any person who presents herself in breach of any of the provisions of clauses (2), (3), and (4) hereof shall not be available to satisfy the Board that she has passed such examination in terms of the said Act.