CAP. 164]
Nurses Registration
[1988 Ed.
(2) The register shall be divided into such number of parts as may be prescribed.
(3) Where a person satisfies the conditions of admission to more than one part of the register, his name may be included in each such part.
(4) A certificate purporting to be under the seal of the Board and signed by the chairman or secretary of the Board stating that a person is or was at any date or is not or was not at any date duly registered shall be evidence in all courts of law of the fact stated in such certificate until the contrary is proved.
(5) The register of nurses kept in accordance with the provisions of the Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931*, shall be deemed to be the register required to be maintained, and to have been maintained, in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance; and every nurse whose name appears therein at the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been registered as a nurse in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
Information with respect to nurses
6. (1) The register or a copy thereof shall be kept at the offices of the Board and shall be open to inspection by any person free of charge during usual business hours upon application being made in writing addressed to the secretary. (Amended, 5 of 1988, s. 4)
(2) The Board shall cause to be published in the Gazette in relation to successive periods, in such manner as the Board may think fit and at intervals of not more than 12 months, lists of all persons whose names have been entered in, removed from or restored to the register during these periods.
Correction of the register
7. (1) The secretary may from time to time amend the register as to the address or other relevant particulars relating to any nurse whose name appears therein upon his being satisfied that such amendment is necessary for the purpose of preserving the accuracy of the register.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 21, the secretary shall add to or delete from the register the name of any nurse whose name the Board directs shall be added thereto or deleted therefrom, as the case may be.
(3) Without prejudice to anything contained in Part V, the Board may direct that the name of any nurse be removed from the register who-
(a) requests in writing addressed to the secretary that his name be so removed;
(b) dies;
(c) has left Hong Kong without giving to the secretary notice of intention to return;
(d) has not kept the secretary supplied with an address in Hong Kong at which notices from the Board may be served upon him:
Provided that-
(i) this paragraph shall not apply to any registered nurse in the service of the Government; and
* See Cap. 164, 1950 Ed.