REGISTER, EVIDENCE.—The registrar is required before the 1st of August each year to cause to be printed and published in the _Royal Gazette_ of the province, and in such other manner as the board shall appoint, a correct register of the names and residences and medical titles, diplomas, and qualifications conferred by any college or body, with the dates thereof of all persons appearing on the register as existing on June 30th. Such register is called “The Medical Register,” and a copy thereof for the time being, purporting to be so printed and published, is _prima facie_ evidence that the persons specified are registered according to this chapter. The absence of a name from such copy is _prima facie_ evidence that such person is not so registered. In the case of a person whose name does not appear in such copy, a certified copy, under the hand of the registrar, of the entry of his name on the register is evidence that such person is registered under the provisions of this chapter (_ib._, s. 5). STUDENTS.—No person can begin or enter on the study of physic, surgery, or midwifery, for the purpose of qualifying himself to practise in the province, unless he shall have obtained from the provincial medical board a certificate that he has satisfactorily passed a matriculation examination in the subjects specified in the chapter (_ib._, s. 6). The chapter prescribes the prerequisites to admission to preliminary examinations (_ib._, s. 7, 12). QUALIFICATION.—Subject to the exceptions hereinafter, no person can lawfully practise physic, surgery, or midwifery unless his name be registered and unless he shall have received from the provincial medical board a license to practise (_ib._, s. 8).