Service of notice.
Appeal.
Penalties for unlawful assumption of date of registered nurse and for falsification of register.
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Geo. 5, c. 94, s. 8.
directions therein as he thinks proper and the Board shall comply with any directions so given.
7. Any notice, directed to be served on any person under the provisions of this Ordinance, or the regula- tions made thereunder, shall be deemed to have been served on such person if such notice shall have been posted, by registered post, to his address given in the register, or, if such person be not registered, then to the address furnished by him to the Board.
8. Whenever a right of appeal from any decision of the Board lies to the Governor in Council under this Ordinance, such appeal shall be by means of a written petition and such petition, unless otherwise provided, shall be presented within fourteen days of the date of service of the decision of the Board on the person concerned. With such petition the Governor may consider any written reply of the Board to such peti- tion. The decision of the Governor in Council on such petition shall be final.
9.-(1) Every person who-
(a) not being a person duly registered under this Ordinance, at any time after the expiration of three months from the date on which the Governor in Council gives public notice that a register of nurses has been compiled under this Ordinance, uses the title of registered nurse or its equivalent in any other language, either alone or in combination with any other words or letters, or uses any name, title, addition, description, uniform, or badge, implying that he or she is registered under this Ordinance or is recognised by law as a registered nurse, or uses any title, uniform or badge prescribed for the use of nurses registered under this Ordinance; or
(b) being a person whose name is included in any part of the register, at any time after the expiration of the period aforesaid uses any name, title, addition, description, uniform or badge, or otherwise does any act of any kind, implying that his or her name is included in some other part of the register in which it is not included; or
(c) at any time with intent to deceive makes use of any certificate of registration as a nurse issued under this Ordinance to him or her or to any other person
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
(2) Every person who wilfully makes, or causes to be made, any falsification in any matter relating to the register, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to impri- sonment for any term not exceeding six months.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 5th day of February, 1931.
N. L. SMITH,
Clerk of Councils.