section shall be recoverable as a debt due by the member to the association.

(2) The name of any member not in arrear for Arrears. annual fees may on the written request of the member be removed from the register and the name of any member so removed may on the written request of the member be replaced on the register without the passing of any examination and on the payment of $5.00.

examiners.

17. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may ap- Board of point a board of examiners to examine all candidates for examinations, which board and the examinations held shall be governed by rules and regulations of the executive committee. The said board shall consist of four members of the association and also two members of the Nova Scotia Medical Society, to be appointed annually by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council; and each member of the board of examiners shall be entitled to receive from the association five dollars per day and expenses while actually attending at or travelling to and from the place of examination.

18. The board of examiners shall hold meetings at Examinations. least twice each year for the examination of applicants for membership in the association. The registrar shall at least one month before the date fixed for the examination give notice of the time and place of holding every such examination by publication of a notice thereof in at least two newspapers published in the Province, and at least one Canadian journal devoted to the interests of professional nursing, and by mailing a copy of the notice to every applicant of whom the registrar has notice and to every approved training school in the Province.

for registry.

19. Every person desiring to become registered as Applications a member of the association shall make application to the registrar at least one month prior to the meeting of the board of examiners for examination and registration, stating the qualifications of the applicant, the training school attended and the length of the course of training and shall furnish to the registrar satisfactory evidence of residence, character, age and identification and shall produce to the registrar the diploma

Examination subjects.

Registration.

be revoked for cause.

or certificate of qualification awarded to the applicant by the training school so attended,

20. The said board of examiners shall examine all such applicants as are required by this Act to pass an examination in elementary bacteriology, materia medica, anatomy and physiology, dietetics, medical nursing (including contagious diseases), surgical nursing (including gynecology), obstetrical nursing, and children's diseases.

21. Every applicant who passes before the board of examiners a satisfactory examination touching his or her fitness and capacity to practise professional nursing, and who has the qualifications required by and otherwise complies with the provisions of Section 11, of this Act, and who pays a fee of ten dollars, shall be admitted to registration as a member of the association, and shall have his or her name entered upon the registrar and receive a certificate of registration signed by the president and the registrar, and shall be entitled to practise professional nursing in the Province, and to append to his or her name the letters "R. N." or any suitable words or designation showing that he or she had been registered in accordance with this Act.

Certificate may 22. The executive committee may revoke any certificate of registration, by a unanimous vote, for dishonesty, gross incompetency, a habit rendering a nurse unsafe to be entrusted with or unfit for the care of the sick, conduct derogatory to the morals or standing of the profession of nursing, or any wilful fraud or misrepresentation practised in procuring such certificate; provided the holder of such certificate shall have been given at least thirty days' notice in writing of the specific charge by the executive committee, at which time and place the holder shall be entitled to be heard and to be represented by counsel. Upon the revocation of any certificate, the same shall be null and void, the holder thereof shall cease to be a member of the association, and cease to be entitled to any of the privileges conferred by such certificate or registration, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to certify such revocation to the registrar, who shall thereupon strike from the register the name of the person whose certifi

cate is revoked, and note the fact of such revocation upon the record of the certificate.

suming title

fully.

23. No person who is not duly registered as a mem- Penalty for asber of the association pursuant to this Act shall as- Registered sume or use the title of "registered nurse" or the ab- nurse wrongbreviation "R. N." or any other words, letters or figures to indicate that such a person is a registered nurse; and if any person not so registered pursuant to this Act, either directly or indirectly, by advertisement, sign or statement of any kind, advertises, alleges or claims by any means whatsoever that he or she is entitled to assume or use, or does so assume or use the title of "registered nurse" or the abbreviation "R. N." or any other words, letters or figures to indicate that such person is a registered nurse, or takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer that he or she is registered under this Act, or is recognized by law as a registered nurse, such person shall be liable, upon summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars.

24. All moneys forming part of the association's Funds, how funds shall be paid to the registrar and may be applied applied. to carry this Act into execution.

25. Every notice required by this Act shall be in Service of writing, and may be served upon any member of the notices. association by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter addressed to such member at the address of such member as set out in the register. Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post; and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and put into the post office.

gistration by

sentation.

26. Every person who wilfully procures, or at- Penalty for tempts to procure, himself or herself to be registered as procuring rea member of the association under this Act by making false repreany false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either verbally or in writing, shall on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

Gratuitous nursing not affected.

Clauses (b) and (c), Sec. 4, Chap. 141, 1910, repealed.

27. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family of the sick person, nor to any person nursing the sick for hire who does not in any way assume or pretend to be a registered nurse.

28. Clauses (b) and (c) of Section 4 of said Chapter 141 of the Acts of 1910 are repealed.

8. 8. (e), Sec. 20, amended.

Sec. 28, as

Sec. 8,

CHAPTER 22.

An Act to Amend Chapter 15, Acts of 1912, "The Domestic, Dominion and Foreign Corporations' Act, 1912."

(Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922).

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. Sub-section (e) of Section 20 of Chapter 15 of the Acts of 1912, "The Domestic, Dominion and Foreign Corporations' Act, 1912," is amended by adding thereto the following:

"And includes the Deputy Registrar of Joint Stock Companies."

2. Section 28 of said Chapter 15 as amended by amended by Section 3 of Chapter 39 of the Acts of 1921 is hereby amended by striking out the words "as follows" in the fourth line of said section and substituting therefor the following words:

89, 1921, amended.

Sec. 28, further amended.

"The amount of which shall be determined as follows."

3.

Said Section 28 is further amended by inserting before the first proviso in said section the following paragraph:

"In the case of a mutual or other corporation having no specified nominal capital the amount of the fee shall be determined by the Governor-in-Council. This provision shall be read and construed and shall apply as if it had been enacted immediately before the first day of January, A. D., 1922."

4. Said Section 28 is further amended by repealing Sec. 28, proviso the proviso therein contained and substituting the substituted. following therefor:

Provided, however, that with respect to a Dominion corporation or to a foreign corporation having a nominal capital exceeding $500,000 and carrying on business in Nova Scotia, heretofore, and carrying on also an established business outside of Nova Scotia in which at least fifty per cent. of its subscribed capital is invested, the Governor-in-Council may reduce the annual registration fee payable under this section to such sum as he may think just, having regard to the nature and importance of its business in Nova Scotia and the amount of capital used therein; provided also that with respect to such corporation not carrying on business in Nova Scotia heretofore when applying for registration under this Act the Governor-in-Council may reduce the annual registration fee to such sum as he may think just, having regard to the nature and importance of the business proposed to be carried on in Nova Scotia and the amount of capital proposed to be used therein. A corporation seeking a reduction of the fee under this section shall give to the registrar such statement and information respecting its business and financial position as he may call for and shall verify the same in such manner as he may require.