This Act may be cited as the Masseurs Registration Amendment Act, 1924, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Masseurs Registration Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The term “massage,” as used in the principal Act, means the use by external application to the human body of manipulation, remedial exercises, electricity, heat, or light, for the purpose of curing or alleviating any abnormal condition of the body, or the use for such purpose of any other method of treatment that may be recognized by the Governor-General in Council as an approved method of performing massage, but does not include the internal use of any drug or medicine, or the application of any medical or surgical appliance except so far as the application of such appliance is necessary in the use as aforesaid of manipulation, remedial exercises, electricity, heat, light, or other approved method.

Section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (6) of subsection two the words “A person,” and substituting the words “Two persons.”

At any meeting of the Board under the principal Act the Chairman shall have a deliberative vote, and in case of an equality of votes shall also have a casting-vote.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section six of the principal Act, no person shall be entitled to registration under that Act who has not attained the age of twenty-one years.

Section twelve of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following words: “or that he is engaged in the practice of massage, as defined, or that he is qualified to perform massage by the use of any defined or approved method.”

The method of treatment commonly used by persons who describe themselves as “chiropractors” is not massage within the meaning of the principal Act, and “chiropractors,” unless otherwise qualified, are not entitled to be registered under the principal Act.