Addition of
now Bection
2A to the
principal Ordinance.
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3. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion after section 2 of the following section—
Board.
"Constitu- ZA. (1) There is hereby established for the pur- tion of Pharmacy poses of this Ordinance a Board to be styled the Pharmacy Board which shall consist of four ex-officio members and five other members to be appointed by the Governor.
(3) The ex-officio members shall be the Director of Medical and Health Services, the Professor of Chemistry of the Hong Kong University, the Government Chemist and the Government Chief Pharmacist.
(3) The Governor shall every three years appoint a Government Medical Officer, a Legal Adviser and three registered pharmacists to be members of the Board. Such members shall hold office for a period of three years and may be re-appointed or removed by the Governor at his pleasure. In the event of any vacancy occurring from any cause such vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the Governur and a member so appointed shall hold office for so long as the member in whose place he has been appointed would have held office.
(4) The Director of Medical and Health Services shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Board. In the case of the absence of the Chairman from any meeting of the Board, the members of the Board present shall appoint any other of its members as Chairman. The Chairman shall have a deliberative and a casting
vote.
(5) Five members of the Board shall con-
stitute a quorum.
(6) The Board shall conduct inquiries into the professional conduct of registered pharmacists or persons employed by registered pharmacists.
(7) The Board shall be empowered to make standing orders regulating the procedure at, and in connexion with, its meetings and inquiries."
4.
of section
Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment (a) by inserting immediately before the words "Governor 3 of the in Council" where they appear in the first line of subsection (1) Ordinance.
principal and in the marginal note the words "Board with the approval of the"; and
(6) by substituting for paragraph (p) of subsection (1) the following paragraphs-
"(p) the payment of costs by any person or persons whose professional conduct is the subject of inquiry or who is the subject of any inquiry in any matter within the juris diction of the Board, or who is in any way implicated or concerned in any such inquiry;
(q) for prescribing anything which is by this Ordin- ance to be prescribed by regulations."
of soction
க. Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendmont by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2) OF thereaf-
"(2) The Registrar shall erase from the register
(a) any entry which is proved to the satisfaction
of the Board to have been fraudulently made;
(b) the name of any person who shall have died; or (c) the name of any person whom after due inquiry he finds to have ceased to reside in the Colony;
(d) the name of any person whom he is directed to remove from the register in pursuance of section 6:
Provided, as regards paragraph (c), that if such person returns to the Colony, his name may be restored to the register on payment of the fee payable on registration as a phar- macist."
8.
principal Ordinance.
Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and Repeal and replaced by the following section-
"Removal 6. (1) If a registered pharmacist, or a person of phor- inatiete employed by him in the carrying on of his business has from and been convicted of any such criminal offence, or been restoration to register. guilty of such misconduct as, in the opinion of the Board. renders him, or in the case of an employee, would if he were a registered pharmacist, render him,
replacement
of section 6 of the
principal Ordinance.