1977 Ed.}
Professional Accountants By-laws
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[Subsidiary]
(2) The practising committee shall- (a) make such inquiries as it may consider necessary to ascertain whether a professional accountant applying for a practising certificate has had the experience required by section 29A of the Ordinance and is otherwise eligible to hold a practising certificate; and
(b) advise the Council as to the acceptance or rejection of the application of such accountant.
(3) The Council shall not be bound to accept the advice of the practising committee.
27. (1) The practising committee shall meet at least once in every 3 months, and at more frequent intervals if it so determines or if the Council so requires.
(2) Three members of the practising committee shall form a quorum at a meeting thereof.
(3) If at a meeting of the practising committee the number of members of the committee present is insufficient to form a quorum, the meeting shall stand adjourned for one week, to be then held at the same hour and place.
(4) The practising committee may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of the members thereof present in Hong Kong shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the practising committee by the votes of the members so approving the resolution.
Meetings of practising committee. L.N. 137/77.
PART VII RESTRICTIONS IN CONNEXION WITH PRACTICE
28. Save with the approval in writing of the Council, a professional accountant holding a practising certificate who knowingly-
(a) permits his name to be made use of in connexion with the practice of public accountancy by a person who is not a professional accountant holding a practising certificate;
(b) employs, in or in connexion with his practice as an accountant, a person whose name has been removed from the register under section 35(1)(a) of the Ordinance and has not been restored thereto; or
(c) practises in partnership as an accountant with a person who is not entitled to practise as a certified public accountant or public accountant,
shall be guilty of professional misconduct.
Professional accountants not to practise with or employ certain persons.