[ Act No. 3609, December 03, 1929 ]
AN ACT PROHIBITING FOREIGNERS FROM PRACTISING MEDICINE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS UNLESS THE COUNTRY OF WHICH THEY ARE CITIZENS PERMITS FILIPINO PHYSICIANS TO PRACTISE IN THE SAME.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
Section 1. Section seven hundred and seventy-two of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 772. Examination requirement-Foreign physicians.-Except as otherwise specially provided all applicants for registration under the provisions of this chapter shall be subjected to examination as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, That no foreign physician or medical man shall be admitted to examination unless the country of which he is a subject or citizen permits Filipino physicians to practice within its territorial limits."
Section 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, December 3, 1929.
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