J'enalty
for failure Lo give evidence.
Appearance
etc.
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(c) to admit or exclude the public or any member of the
public from the inquiry;
(3) to admit or exclude the press from the inquiry;
(c) to award any person summoned to attend the inquiry such sum or sums as in the opinion of the Council may have been reasonably expended by him by reason of his attendance.
(*) Summonses to witnesses may be in such form as may be prescribed and shall be signed by the Chairman.
22. Any person who being summoned to attend as a witness or to produce a book, document or any other thing at an inquiry under section 20 refuses or neglects to do so or to answer any question put to him by or with the concurrence of the Council shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months:
Provided that no person shall be bound to incriminate himself and every witness shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before the Council, he entitled to the privileges to which he would be entitled if giving evidence before a court of justice.
23. The complainant in any inquiry under section 20 and of counsel, the person whose conduct is the subject of such inquiry shall be entitled to be represented by counsel or by a solicitor throughout the inquiry.
Orders of the Council.
24. (1) A copy of any order made under subsection (1) of section 20 shall be served forthwith by the Registrar upon the registered medical practitioner concerned, either personally or by registered post addressed to his registered address.
(2) The Registrar shall not erase or remove the name of the registered medical practitioner from the register before the expiry of one month after the date of service of the order of the Council on the person concerned and in the case of an appeal shall await the decision of the Full Court.
(3) Any person whose name has been removed or erased from the register under section 18 or under subsection (1) of section 20 may apply to the Council for the restoration of his name to the
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register, and the Council, in its absolute discretion and after such inquiry as it may consider desirabic, may either allow or refuse the application, and, if it allows the same, shall order the Registrac to restore the name of the applicant to the register, and thereupon the Registrar shall restore the name accordingly.
(4) Any order made by the Council as aforesaid shall be signed by the Chairman.
orders of
25. (1) Any registered medical practitioner who is aggrieved Appeal by any order made in respect of him under section 18 or under against Section 20 my appeal to the Full Court, and the Full Court the
may thereupon affirm, reverse or vary the order appealed against.
(2) The decision of the Full Court upon such appeal shall be final.
Council.
(3) The practice in relation to any such appeal shall be subject to any rules of court made under the Supreme Court (Cap. 4). Ordinance:
Provided that the Full Court shall not have power to hear any appeal against an order made under section 20 unless notice of such appeal was given within one month of the service of the order in accordance with subsection (1) of section 24.
tration.
26. Every person who fraudulently procures or attempts to Frauda- procure himself or any other person to be registered by making lent regis or producing, or causing to be made or produced, any false or fraudulent representation or declarations, either oral or in writing, shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be fiable to a fine of ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.
without
17. Any person who wilfully and falsely pretends to be Unlawful qualified, or takes or uses any name or title implying that he is use of
title etc. qualified, to practise medicine or surgery or to be registered or, and not being registered or provisionally registered or exempted from Practice registration, practises or professes to practise or publishes his registra- name as practising medicine or surgery shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
tion.