1987 Ed.]
Medical Registration
[CAP. 161
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CHAPTER 161
MEDICAL REGISTRATION
To consolidate and amend the law by making more comprehensive provisions regulating the registration of practitioners in medicine and surgery.
[1 June 1957.]
Originally. 25 of 1957.
19 of 1958. 32 of 1958. 40 of 1958. 14 of 1960. 36 of 1960.
12 of 1962. 30 of 1966.
30 of 1978
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57 of 1987
95 of 1970.
L.N. 177/70.
33 of 1971.
39 of 1974.
70 of 1975.
92 of 1975.
70 of 1976.
63 of 1982.
25 of 1984.
79 of 1985.
68 of 1986.
1.
PART I
CITATION AND INTERPRETATION
This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Registration Ordinance.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires----
"approved subvented hospital" means a hospital recognized by the Council as an approved subvented hospital for the purposes of this Ordinance; (Added, 63 of 1982, s. 2)
"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Council; (Added, 30 of 1966, s. 2)
"Committee" means the Licentiate Committee of the Medical Council of Hong Kong established under section 20C; (Added, 70 of 1976, s. 2)
"Council" means the Medical Council of Hong Kong established under section 3;
"diploma" means any diploma, degree, fellowship, membership, licence, authority to practise, letters testimonial, certificate or other status or document granted by any university, corporation, college, or other body, or by any departments of or persons acting under the authority of the government of any country or place within or without Her Majesty's dominions;
"Director" means the Director of Medical and Health Services;
"General Medical Council" means the statutory body of that name incorporated in the United Kingdom; (Added, 25 of 1984, s. 2)
"Hong Kong diploma" means any degree of medicine and surgery granted by the University of Hong Kong or the Chinese University of Hong Kong and any licence in medicine and surgery of the former Hong Kong College of Medicine; (Added, 63 of 1982, s. 2)
Interpretation.