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PART V. Exemption, Savings, Regulations and Repeal.

28. The following persons shall be exempted from registration and shall be deemed to be registered medical practitioners while serving in or holding the appointments specified—
 * (a) all medical officers of Her Majesty’s Forces serving on full pay in the Colony;
 * (b) all ships’ surgeons while in the discharge of their duties;
 * (c) any person who is in the Colony for the purpose of teaching and research in any institution recognized from time to time by the Council for that purpose and not having any of the qualifications mentioned in section 7 for so long as he continues to engage himself exclusively in teaching and in research and the clinical practice of medicine directly connected with and necessary for the performance of his teaching duties;
 * (d) any person, other than a person serving a prescribed period of employment under subsection (1) of section 9, who is in the full time service of—
 * (i) the Government as a Government medical officer; or
 * (ii) the University for the purpose of teaching in the pathological department of the faculty of medicine, or in the clinical units of medicine or of surgery or of obstetrics and gynaecology of such faculty,

and who is duly authorized for that purpose by the Director subject to such terms and conditions as the Director, in his absolute discretion, may impose.

29. (1) Notwithstanding that he may not be entitled to be registered, a national of a foreign country who is registered as a medical practitioner in that country and who is employed by may be the government of that country, may, with the consent of the Governor, conduct medical examinations of applicants for admission into that country with a view to ascertaining their fitness for admission.