July 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2143

(d) In the opinion of the Board the other requirements in regard
to the training of nurses set out in these regulations are
not adequately complied with (or, in the case of a Grade
“ B ” Training-school, are not complied with so far as the
Board at any time thinks necessary) ; or
(e) The training of nurses is not conducted in all respects to the
satisfaction of the Board ;
then, and in any such case, the Board may, after giving to the
governing body of such hospital not less than three months’ notice
of its intention so to do, revoke its approval of such hospital as a
training-school for nurses :
Provided that upon the revocation of its approval of a hospital as
a Grade “ A ” Training-school the Board may if it thinks fit approve
that hospital as a Grade “ B ” Training-school if such hospital is
eligible for such approval under the foregoing provisions.

3. Period of Training for Nurses.

(1) The period of not less than three years’ approved training as a
nurse required to be undergone by every person seeking to be regis-
tered 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 a Grade “ A ” Training-school or a Grade “ B ”
Training-school a period of probation of at least three
months ; and
(b) At the end of that period been recommended as a person suit-
able 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 a Grade “ A ” Training-
school ; or
(b) Such period in a Grade “ B ” Training-school, together with
such period in a Grade “ A ” Training-school as the Board
may have determined :
Provided that in no case shall the total period of
training required be less than three years or more than
five years.
(4) (a) Except as hereinafter provided, the whole duration of the
period of training required to be undergone in a Grade “ A ” Training-
school or in a Grade “ B ” Training-school respectively shall be under-
gone 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 shall for the purposes of this regulation be deemed to be part
of the period of training undergone in such approved hospital, subject
to the conditions—
(i) That such subsidiary hospital is a consumptive sanatorium,
chronic ward, fever ward, cottage hospital, or similar insti-
tution ; and
(ii) That such subsidiary hospital is at all times managed by a
nurse registered under the said Act.

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 regis-
tered 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 de-
puted 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 Second Schedule hereto and
such other subject as the Board may from time to time, by notice to
the governing body of the hospital, require.