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.

• Number: Act No. 3609
• Sections: 3

Preamble

"SEC. 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

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 3

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, December 3, 1929.