CHAPTER 18. 8. 8. (c) Sec. 6 as amended by An Act to Amend Chapter 182, Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Collection Act." (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Sub-section (c) of Section 6 of Chapter 182 of Chap. 35, 1921, the Revised Statutes, 1900, as that sub-section is amended by Chapter 35 of the Acts of 1921, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: repealed; substituted. as amended by (c) if the judgment was obtained in the court of or before a stipendiary magistrate, such stipendiary magistrate or such commissioner shall be the examiner. B. 8. (d) Sec. 6, 2. Sub-section (d) of Section 6 of Chapter 182 of Chap. 35, 1921, the Revised Statutes, 1900, as that sub-section is amended by Chapter 35 of the Acts of 1921, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: repealed; substituted. (d) if the judgment was obtained in the court of, or before, a justice or justices of the peace, any justice of the peace for the county in which the debtor resides at the date of the application, or if he does not reside in the Province, any justice of the peace for the county in which the judgment was obtained, shall be the examiner. CHAPTER 19. An Act to Amend Chapter 33, Acts of 1908, entitled, (Passed the 13th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: amended. 1. Chapter 33 of the Acts of 1908, as amended, is Chap. 38, 1908, hereby amended by inserting after the words "Registrar of Joint Stock Companies," the words, "or in his absence the Deputy Registrar of Joint Stock Companies," and after the word, "Registrar," the words, "or in his absence the Deputy Registrar," wherever the words "Registrar of Joint Stock Companies" and the word "Registrar" appears in the said Act. CHAPTER 20. An Act to Amend the Nova Scotia Elections Act, (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: First Schedule 1. Paragraph 6, Form "T", of the first Schedule to Paragraph 6, the Nova Scotia Elections Act, Chapter 6, Acts of Form 1909, as amended, is repealed and the following sub-repealed; stituted therefor: (6) That I was not on the first day of January next before the last meeting of the revisers receiving public charitable support or care in a city, town or municipal poor house and that I did not in each of the two years immediately preceding the first day of January next before the last meeting of the revisers receive aid as a pauper under any law of the Province of Nova Scotia. substituted. Sub-section added to Sec. 4. Local branches. Sections added The Register. Registered nurses. Qualifications CHAPTER 21. An Act to Amend Chapter 141, Acts of 1910, "An Act to Incorporate the Graduate Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia." (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Chapter 141 of the Acts of 1910 is hereby amended by adding to Section 4 of the said Chapter the following sub-section : (d) the power to establish local branches of the Association in any city or town in the Province and to appropriate any money for the use of such association and to regulate by by-law the powers of such local branch. The said Chapter is further amended by adding thereto the following clauses: 9. The association shall cause to be kept by the registrar, a book or register to be known as "The Nova Scotia Nurses' Register," in this Act referred to as "the Register," in which shall be entered the name of every member of the association. 10. Only those persons whose names are entered in the register as members of the association shall be deemed to be qualified to hold themselves out to the public as registered nurses. 11. Every person, male or female, who is a memfor member- ber of the Graduate Nurses' Association of Nova Scotia at the time of the passing of this Act, and every person, male or female, who (a) resides in and practises, or proposes to practise, the profession of nursing in the Province; and (b) is a graduate of an approved training school; and (c) is of good moral character; and (d) is at least twenty-one years of age; and (e) has passed an examination before the board of examiners as provided by this Act, shall, on producing to the registrar evidence satisfactory to the executive committee in proof of such qualifications and on payment of the sum of ten dollars and on complying with the other requirements contained in this Act, be entitled to be registered as a member of the association. tered in other be registered. (2) Persons who are registered as trained nurses in Persons regisany other Province or country which has substantially Provinces or the same requirements for registration as this Pro-country may vince, and who are otherwise qualified, may upon the approval of the executive committee be registered without examination. Examination may be (3) The executive committee shall waive the ex-Examin amination of any person possessing the other qualifica- waived. tions mentioned in this section who has graduated from an approved training school before the passing of this Act, who may graduate from an approved training school within three years from the passing of this Act. Training 12. For the purposes of this Act, the expression Approved "approved training school" in respect of the gradua-School. tion of any person prior to the passing of this Act, or within the period of three years thereafter, shall mean a school for the training of nurses attached to or operated in connection with a hospital giving a general training in nursing and a systematic, theoretical and practical course of instruction in nursing extending over two years. Training 13. For the purposes of this Act the expression Approved "approved training school" in respect of the gradua- School. tion of any person after three years from the enactment of this section shall mean a school,— (a) that is connected with a general hospital of at least fifty beds and gives an adequate course Registrar to keep records, etc. Annual report and financial statement. Annual fee. of instruction and general training for at least two years and six months embracing medical, surgical, obstetrical and pediatric nursing and the superintending nurse and supervising night nurse of such hospital are nurses registered or eligible for registration under this Act; or (b) that is connected with a special or general hospital of not less than twenty-five beds and gives an adequate course of instruction and general training as aforesaid and the superintending nurse and supervising night nurse of such special or general hospital are nurses registered or eligible for registration under this Act and such training school requires that such instruction and general training for at least six months of said period shall be in a training school which is of the class mentioned in the preceding clause (a) and with which the training school connected with such special or general hospital is affiliated for the purpose. 14. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the register correct in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations of the association and the registrar shall from time to time make all necessary alterations in the addresses and record of qualifications of the persons registered under this Act. 15. The registrar shall mail to each member of the association annually a report and financial statement of the affairs of the association, and shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon the registrar by the association. 16. (1) Every member of the association shall pay to the registrar, or to any person deputed by the registrar to receive it, such annual fee as may be determined by the rules of the association, but not more than ten dollars, towards the general expenses of the association, which annual fee shall be payable on the first Monday of September in the year for which the same is imposed, and obtain an annual certificate under the seal of the association. The annual certificate shall state the qualification of the member as a registered nurse, and shall remain in force for one year from its date. The annual fee payable under this |