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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 20

Regulations under the Masseurs Registration Act, 1920 (M. 229).—
(H. M.R. 8.)

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of March, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Masseurs Registration Act, 1920, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Masseurs Registration Regulations 1925 Amendment No. 5.

2. These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1935.

3. These regulations shall be read together with and be deemed to form part of the Masseurs Registration Regulations, 1925, (hereinafter called “the principal regulations”).

4. The regulations made under the said Act respectively on the 20th day of September, 1926, and the 15th day of December, 1931, and published in the Gazette respectively on the 23rd day of September, 1926, at page 2796, and on the 14th day of January, 1932, at page 60, shall be revoked on the coming into force of these regulations.

5. The principal regulations are hereby amended by deleting from the Third Schedule thereto the passage reading: “a minimum of 125 hours’ instruction in the theory and practice of medical electricity. The practical work (100 hours) must be carried out on patients and under approved supervision,” and substituting the following: “A minimum of 172 hours’ instruction in the theory and practice of medical electricity. The practical work (140 hours) must be carried out on patients and under approved supervision. A minimum of 180 hours’ instruction in the theory and practice of light and electro-therapy. The practical work (156 hours) must be carried out on patients and under approved supervision.”

6. The said Third Schedule is hereby further amended by adding to clause (d) thereof, under the heading “General Scope of Examination,” the words “and light and electro-therapy.”

7. The said Third Schedule is hereby further amended by deleting all the provisions thereof following the subheading “Medical Electricity,” and substituting the following:—

MEDICAL ELECTRICITY.

Elementary Principles.

Structure of matter (definitions of molecule, atom, proton, electron, ion.) Simple electrical phenomena explained according to electronic theory (electric charges, currents, conduction, insulation, capacity). Elements of magnetism and electro-magnetism (simple magnetic and electro-magnetic phenomena, including induction).

The Direct Current (D.C.).

1. Definition. Other names.

2. Production by chemical means. The simple voltaic cell; principle and construction. Polarization and depolarization. Wet Leclanche cell; dry Leclanche cell; meaning of following terms—Positive and negative poles; circuit, internal and external; difference of potential (P.D.); electro-motive force (E); intensity of current (I); resistance (R); Ohm’s Law (I = E/R); density of current.

3. Productions of dynamos. Combined motors and dynamos (motor-generator, dynamotor, rotary converter).

4. Accumulators.