The council is required to admit to registration, on the payment of the registration fee, all persons duly registered by the medical council of Great Britain or otherwise authorized to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (_ib._, s. 10). Every person who holds a medical or surgical degree or diploma dated prior to January 1st, 1880, from any university, college, or school of medicine in Great Britain, Ireland, or Canada, or any of the universities or colleges in the United States mentioned in Schedule A, is entitled to register on producing to the registrar such diploma or satisfactory evidence of the qualification in respect whereof he seeks to be registered (_ib._, s. 11). Every person desirous of being registered, not registered under the acts mentioned in sec. 2, and who had not become possessed of a diploma as provided in sec. 11, must, before being entitled to register, be examined as to his knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of his profession before the medical council, and on passing the examination required and producing proof of study in medicine, surgery, and midwifery four years, one of which may be with a registered medical practitioner, shall, subject to the next section, be entitled to register and by virtue of such registration to practise medicine, surgery, and midwifery; provided, the council may, if it see fit, dispense with the examination in any case (_ib._, s. 12). No person commencing the study of medicine on or after September 1st, 1892, shall be entitled to register unless he has passed a matriculation examination equivalent to that of the College of Surgeons of London, or shall hold a license as a first-class teacher in this province, or shall have obtained from the council a certificate that he has satisfactorily passed a matriculation examination in the subjects specified in Schedule B. Any graduate or student matriculated in the arts in any university in Her Majesty’s dominions shall not be required to pass the matriculation examination (_ib._, s. 13). The council may grant a license to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery to an applicant at the time of the passage of this act practising medicine, surgery, or midwifery, or any of them, in Prince Edward Island, on a preliminary examination as the council may think necessary for the public safety, provided such person shall have practised five years in the province, but such person is not thereby entitled to registration (_ib._, s. 15).