To take or use a name or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer registration or recognition by law as a physician, surgeon, or licentiate in medicine or surgery is punishable with a penalty of from $25 to $100 (_ib._, s. 44). UNREGISTERED PERSONS.—No person is entitled to recover for any medical or surgical advice or attendance or the performance of any operation or medicine which he may have prescribed (_ib._, s. 45); nor to be appointed as medical officer, physician, or surgeon in any branch of the public service or in any hospital or other charitable institution not supported wholly by voluntary contributions, unless registered (_ib._, s. 46). No certificate required from a physician or surgeon or medical practitioner is valid unless the signer is registered (_ib._, s. 47). COSTS.—In prosecutions, payment of costs may be awarded in addition to the penalty, and in default of payment the offender may be committed to the common jail for not more than one month (_ib._, s. 48). BURDEN OF PROOF.—In prosecutions, the burden of proof as to registration is upon the person charged (_ib._, s. 49). PROOF.—The production of a printed or other copy of the register, certified under the hand of the registrar, for the time being is sufficient evidence of all persons [registered]; a certificate on such copy purporting to be signed by any person in the capacity of registrar of the council under this ordinance is _prima facie_ evidence that he is registered without proof of his signature or of his being in fact registrar (_ib._, s. 50). LIMITATION OF PROSECUTIONS.—Prosecutions must be commenced within six months from the date of the offence (_ib._, s. 51). STAY.—The council may stay proceedings in prosecutions where deemed expedient (_ib._, s. 52). PROSECUTOR.—Any person may be prosecutor or complainant (_ib._, s. 53). DEFINITION.—“Legally qualified medical practitioner” or “duly qualified medical practitioner,” or any other words implying legal recognition as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, when used in any law or ordinance, mean a person registered under this ordinance (_ib._, s. 55). HOMŒOPATHISTS.—Homœopathic physicians may be registered under this ordinance on complying with the terms of sec. 34 (_ib._, s. 58). FEES.—To the council from each member annually as the council may determine, not more than $2 and not less than $1 (_ib._, s. 35). To the registrar, for registration, $50 (_ib._, s. 56, as substituted by Ord. 24, 1892, s. 3). NOVA SCOTIA. MEDICAL BOARD.—There is a provincial medical board consisting of thirteen regular qualified medical practitioners of not less than seven years’ standing, seven nominated and appointed by the governor in council, and six by the Nova Scotia Medical Society (R. S., 5th ser., c. 24, s. 1). The board appoints a secretary who is the registrar of the board (_ib._, s. 3, 4).