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Power of Medical Board to censure or strike off
(3) Such certificate shall be impressed with a stamp of twenty-five dollars, and, on production to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, shall entitle such person to registration as a medical practitioner.
(4) Every person applying for registration under section 11 shall furnish to the Medical Board an address within the Colony at which all notices from the Medical Board may be served on him. Notice of the decision of the Medical Board shall be served on the applicant at the address so furnished.
13. (1) If any registered practitioner is convicted of any offence or after due inquiry is considered by the Medical Board to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any pro- the register. fessional respect, the Medical Board may either censure the said registered practitioner or direct that his name be struck off the register.
Fraudulent registration,
Penalty on
person falsely
taking name implying qualifica
tion.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Medical Board to publish the result of any inquiry held under this section either with or without an account of proceedings at the said inquiry.
(3) The Medical Board may also after due inquiry direct the name of any person to be struck off the register who, in their opinion
(a) has obtained registration by fraud or misrepresenta- tion; or
(b) was not at the time of registration entitled to be registered.
(4) Reasonable notice of any proposed inquiry under this section shall be served on the person concerned.
(5) Notice of the decision of the Medical Board shall in all cases under this section be served on the person concerned.
(6) The striking off the register under this section or the publication under sub-section (2) shall not take place until after the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the service of the decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned and in case of appeal shall await the decision of the Governor in Council.
14. Every person who fraudulently procures or attempts to procure himself or any other person to be registered by making or producing, or causing to be made or produced, any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either oral or in writing, and every person who aids and assists him therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years.
15. Every person who-
(1) Wilfully and falsely takes or uses any name, title, or addition implying a qualification to practise medicine or surgery; or
(2) not being registered, practises for gain, professes to practise, or publishes his name as practising medicine or surgery, or receives any payment as practising medicine or surgery
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceed- ing one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
notices.
16. Any notice directed to be served on any person Service of under the provisions of this Ordinance shall, 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 Medical Board, be deemed to have been served on such person at the time of posting.
17. A right of appeal from any decision of the Medical Appeal. Board under this Ordinance shall lie to the Governor in Council. Such appeal shall be by means of a written petition. Such petition shall be presented within fourteen days from the date of service of the notice of the decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned. With such petition the Governor in Council may consider any written reply of the Medical Board to such petition. The decision of the Governor in Council upon such petition shall be final.
Government,
18. All Government medical officers, all medical officers Saving as to of His Majesty's Navy, Army or Air Force, respectively Naval, serving in the Colony shall be deemed to be medical Military practitioners; but nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed Force to require that they shall be registered whilst so serving. Officers.
or Air
Medical
of Ordin-
s. 39 E (9)
19. (1) Sub-section (9) of group E in section 39 of the Amendment Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, is amended by the substitution ance No. 31 of the words "duly registered or deemed to be a medical of 1911, practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance, and Ordin- 1935," for the words "duly registered under the Medical ance No. 16 Registration Ordinance, 1884."
(2) Sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Dentistry Ordin- ance, 1914, is amended by the substitution of the words "medical practitioners" for the words "persons registered under the provisions of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884."
of 1914, 8. 3 (1).
20. The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, the Repeal of
Ordinances Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1927, and the No. 1 of Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1932,
are 1884, No. 20 of 1927. and repealed.
No. 8 of 1932.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 3rd day of October, 1935.
A. W. G. H. GRANTHAM, Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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