"chairman" means the chairman of the Board;
"Director" means the Director of Medical and Health Services;
"legal adviser" means the legal adviser to the Board;
"member" means a member of the Board;
“nurse" means a male or female nurse for the sick, and “nursing" shall
be construed accordingly;
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulation made pursuant to
section 21:
"Principal Matron" means the Principal Matron in the Medical and
Health Department;
"register" means the register of nurses maintained in accordance with
section 5;
"registered nurse" means a nurse whose name appears in any part of
the register;
"secretary" means the secretary to the Board.
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diseases or in the nursing and care of the mentally defective and who shall be appointed by the Governor.
(3) Any member appointed by the Governor shall hold office for a period of three years, or such lesser period as the Governor may appoint, and shall be eligible for re-appointment from time to time,
(4) If any member appointed by the Governor is temporarily absent from the Colony or is for any other reason unable to attend to the business of the Board, the Governor may appoint an additional member during the absence or disability of that member,
(5) The Director shall be the standing chairman of the Board and shall take the chair at all meetings of the Board at which he is present; but if the Director is absent from any mecting those members being present thereat shall elect one of their number to act as chairman for the purposes of that meeting.
(6) There shall be a secretary to the Board and a legal adviser
to the Board, each of whom shall be appointed by the Governor.
4.
(1) The Board shall meet at such times and in such places- Meetings of (a) as the chairman may from time to time direct; or
the Board.
Establist-
ment and
composition
of the Board.
PART II
The Nursing Board.
3. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, there shall be established a Board to be known as the Nursing Board of Hong Kong.
(2) The Board shall consist of—–
(a) the Director:
(6) the Principal Matron;
(c) six members, who shall be ourses registered in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance or State registered nurses of the United Kingdom and who shall be appointed by the Governor;
(d) one member who shall be nominated by the University of Hong Kong and shall be appointed by the Governor, and
(e) one member who shall be a registered nurse specially qualified in the nursing and care of persons suffering from mental
(b) as may be requested in writing addressed to the chairman by
not less than five members.
(2) At any meeting of the Board five members shall be a quorum. (3) The validity of any proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among the members thereof or by any defect in the appointment of any member thereto.
(4) All questions for determination at any meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority vote of the members present at such meeting and voting thereon:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent any question for determination by the Board being so deter- mined by a majority opinion of the members upon circulation to them of papers relating thereto.
(5) The chairman at any meeting of the Board shall have an original vote and also, if upon any question the votes are equally divided, a casting vote except in the case of an inquiry held under section 11 in which case he shall have only an original vote.