Appeals
(Cap. 4)
Falsification
of register.
Penollies for assumption of title of registered
nurses.
Ordinance, may apply to the Board for restoration of his name to the register or to such part thereof, and the Board, in its absolute discre- tion, and after such inquiry and subject to such conditions at it may consider expedient, may either allow or reject the application, and, if it allows the application, shall direct the secretary upon payment of the prescribed fee, if any, to restore the name of the applicant to the register or to such part thereof, and thereupon the secretary shall so restore the name accordingly:
Provided that where the name of such nurse was removed from the register or any part thereof by order of the Board for a specified period only, no fee shall be payable upon restoration of the name upon the expiration of such period.
16. (1) Any person who considers himself aggrieved by any order of the Board made in accordance with the provisions of section 9 refusing him registration or by any order made in accordance with the provisions of section 11 may appeal therefrom to a judge of the Supreme Court and the judge may affirm, vary or reverse the decision of the Board, and may exercise any power which the Board might have exercised and the decision of such judge shall be final.
(2) The procedure in relation to appeals made under this section shall be subject to any rules of court made under the provisions of the Supreme Court Ordinance :
Provided that no such appeal shall be heard unless notice thereof has been given to the court within thirty days after the service upon the appellant in accordance with section 15 of a copy of the order to which the appeal relates.
PART V.
Miscellaneous Offences and Prohibitions,
17. Any person who wilfully makes, or causes to be made, a fulsification in a matter relating to the register or to the registration of any name therein, shall be guilty of an offence and liable upon summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprison. ment for three months.
18. (1) Any person who--
(a) not being a duly registered nurse in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, takes or uses the name or Litle of registered nurse, either alone or in combination with any other words or letters, or any name, title, addition, descrip- tion, uniform, or badge, implying that be is registered or recognized by law as registered: or
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(6) being a person whose name is included in any part of the register, takes or uses any name, title, addition, description. uniform or badge, or otherwise does any act of any kind. implying that his name is included in some other part of the register, or
(c) at any time, with intent to deceive, makes use of any certificate of registration issued to him or to any other person, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for three months.
(2) Any person who, knowing that some other person is not registered as a nurse in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, makes any statement or does any act such as to suggest that such other person is so registered, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to render any person guilty of an offence under this section by reason only that, without objection by him, other persons use the word nurse in addressing or referring to him.
(4) Proceedings for an offence against this section shall not be instituted except with the consent of the Director.
19. (1) If any registered nurse contracts any infectious disease Power of within the meaning of the Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases Board to
probibit Ordinance, which, in the opinion of the Board, is likely to endanger registered the health of any person attended by him, the Board may prohibit such uses nurse from attending sick persons in his professional capacity.
Sulfering from certain diseases from
(2) Any contravention of a prohibition imposed under this section encoding shall constitute a ground for the institution of disciplinary proceedings sick persons. in accordance with section 11.
(Cap. 141).
PART VI
Exemptions, Regulations and Repeal.
20. The following persons shall be exempted from registration Exemptions but shall be deemed to be registered nurses—
registration.
(a) persons serving on full pay in Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the capacity of nurse while acting in the discharge of their duty; and
(b) persons in full time employment by the Government in the capacity of nurse while acting in the discharge of their duty.
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