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CAP. 359]
Supplementary Medical Professions
Certificate of registration to be displayed in premises.
[1980 Ed.
(2) In any proceedings under this section a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the secretary of the board, that the person registered, has not paid the fee prescribed for the issue of a practising certificate shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of non-payment of the fee.
(3) On recovery from a person of a prescribed fee under this section, the secretary of the relevant board shall, if the person is registered, issue a practising certificate to him.
18. (1) A person registered shall keep displayed in a conspicuous position in any premises in which he practises his profession, his certificate of registration, or a certified copy of such certificate issued under section 14(3).
(2) A person registered who fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence.
(3) A person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed in any premises, a certificate of registration or a certified copy of a certificate of registration bearing his name or photograph, at a time when his name does not appear on the register kept for the profession to which that certificate relates, commits an offence.
Premises to be suitable for practice.
Companies may carry on professions by way of trade or business. (Cap. 32.)
PART IV
CONTROL OF PROFESSIONS
19. (1) No person registered shall practise his profession in premises which are considered by the relevant board to be unsuitable for such practice.
(2) A public officer with the authorization of the board, which shall be signed by the Chairman of the board, may at any reasonable time enter and inspect premises used or proposed to be used, for the practice of a profession and shall on demand, produce such authority.
(3) A person wilfully obstructing or resisting a public officer duly authorized by the board, in the inspection of premises used or proposed to be used for the practice of a profession, commits an offence.
20. (1) No company as defined in the Companies Ordinance may carry on the business of practising a profession unless---
(a) all persons practising the profession who are employed by the company are registered in respect of that profession;
(b) it has among its objects the practice of that profession; and
(c) within 14 days after 1 July in each year, it transmits to the secretary of the relevant board a statement in the prescribed form containing-