S.L. 458.21 Art. 12Eligibility to sit at intermediate and final examinations.

(1) No pupil nurse may sit for the Final Examination unless -

(a) he shall have passed the intermediate examination and has applied to sit for such examination and submitted the relative certificate as provided for in regulation 18;

(b) the Council for Nurses and Midwives is satisfied that such pupil has undergone the required level of training. For the purpose of this paragraph, the principal nursing tutor shall report to the said Council every six months, on the progress made by such pupil nurse, which report shall be in accordance with such format as may be required by the said Council.

(2) No pupil nurse shall sit for the final examination if he has absented himself on sick leave or other cause (excluding vacation leave) in excess of an aggregate period of twenty days throughout the duration of the prescribed course of studies at the training school, unless he has made up for the excess absenteeism by attending for practical duties at a government hospital to the satisfaction of the principal nursing tutor before sitting for the final examination: Provided that where the curriculum of studies includes study blocks in accordance with curricula as may from time to time be approved by the Council for Nurses and Midwives, any period of absence for whatever cause, exceeding twenty per cent of the duration of the theoretical instructions of any of such study blocks shall render the candidate ineligible to sit for the final examination unless he has made up for this absenteeism by attending for the specific instruction for which he had been absent before sitting for the final examination.

(3) After making up for the absenteeism as provided for in sub-regulation (2), such pupil nurse shall not be entitled to a special session of the final examination but may sit at a session not earlier than that which is due in the normal course of events.

(4) Any pupil nurse may, subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (2), make up for the absenteeism referred to in the same sub-regulation or for any part thereof, by forfeiting an equivalent number of days of vacation leave to which he may be entitled.