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The doctor in the Health Miss PrTr told him firmly that doctors were under no Service was a public servant, paid out of public funds, obligation to provide these certificates, and rejected the and the public were entitled to know who was not doing suggestion of an approach to the B.M.A. as outside the his job. There were two sides to every case: then let the Minister's province. The 1946 Act provided for regulations public hear both sides and all the facts, and it would be to be made "for the issue to patients or their personal to the benefit of all. Justice should be done in the open, representatives by medical practitioners . of such certi- not in secret courts in which identities were screened. ficates as may be prescribed, being certificates reasonably required by them under or for the purposes of any enact- ment." The International Sanitary Regulations adopted Courts, G.M.C., and Service Committees by the World Health Assembly, under which international Miss EDITH PIrr, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of vaccination certificates were provided as evidence of Health, said the purpose of the service committee investiga- vaccination, could not be regarded as an enactment for the tions was to consider according to statutory rules of purposes of the Health Service Acts, and therefore the procedure whether a practitioner had complied with his Minister has no power to prescribe these certificates. There terms of service. It was not to decide issues between two was no statutory provision in the United Kingdom requiring parties; the courts were available if a complainant sought those leaving the country to be vaccinated or inoculated or damages. Nor was it to punish an offence; this also was to obtain a certificate. The doctor was not required to for the courts. Nor was it to determine whether a practi- provide them under his terms of service. It was a private tioner was fit to practise; this was for the General Medical transaction, and it was for the doctor to decide what charge, Council or other professional registration body, and, in if any, he should make. relation to the Health Service, the tribunal.