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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section seven hundred and seventy-two of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 772. Examination requirement—Foreign physicians.—Except as otherwise especially provided, all applicants for registration under the provisions of this chapter shall be subjected to examination as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, That no foreign physicians or medical men 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. In case, however, Filipino physicians are permitted to practice and is practicing the medical profession in the country of the applicant under certain conditions and limitations, then similar conditions and limitations shall, in addition to those now required or that may hereafter be required by Philippine law, also be imposed upon him in connection with the practice of his profession in these Islands. It shall be incumbent upon the applicant to furnish the Board of Medical Examiners evidence or laws of his country, to prove in what manner Filipino physicians are permitted to practice medicine in that particular country."

SEC. 2. The provisions of the foregoing section shall not be applicable to those physicians who, by their special training, are universally known as experts in their line and those who may be contracted by the Government.

SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, December 1, 1934.