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Submission or receipt of
complaint or Information.
Complaint or Information touching conduct.
(5) at the time the membership of any person clected or appointed to be temporarily a member of the Committee under paragraph (4), (5) or (6) terminates,
the Committee is considering any complaint or information under these regulations, then if such person is not thereupon elected or re-elected or, as the case may be, appointed or re-appointed, to be a member of the Committee, the membership of such person shall continue by virtue of this paragraph for the purposes of the con- sideration of such complaint or information by the Committee, but for no other purpose, until the Committee has discharged its functions in respect of such complaint or information.
(8) A person elected or appointed to be a member of the Committee may at any time resign his membership of the Com- mittee by notice in writing addressed to the secretary or, as the case may be, the Director, save that, if at any time such notice is given the Committee is considering any complaint or information the person so resigning shall, if so required by the Board or, as the case may be. the Director, continue to be a member of the Committee for the purposes of the consideration of such complaint or information but for no other purpose, until the Committee bas discharged its functions in respect of the complaint or information.
(9) No member of the Committee shall attend any meeting of the Board as a member of the Board during the hearing or determination of any complaint or information against any person which is referred to the Board by the Committee for determination if such member has attended any meeting of the Committee at which such complaint or information was considered.
(10) The Committee shall meet from time to time as directed by the chairman of the Committee who may at any time adjourn any meeting of the Committee.
16. Where a complaint is made to or information is received by the secretary that an enrolled assistant nurse-----
(a) has been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any
offence punishable with imprisonment;
(b) has been guilty of unprofessional conduct;
(c) has obtained enrolment by fraud or misrepresentation; or (d) was not at time of his enrolment entitled to be carolled, the secretary shall submit the complaint or information to the chairman of the Committee.
17. (1) Where, in a complaint or information submitted by the secretary to the chairman of the Committee ander regulation 16. any allegation is made which in the opinion of the chairman
of the Committee gives rise to a question whether an enrolled assistant curse has been guilty of unprofessional conduct, the chairman of the Committee may require that the complaint or information be formulated in writing setting out the grounds thereof and, except where the complaint or information is in writing under the hand of a public officer, supported by one or more statutory declarations as to the facts of the case.
(2) Each statutory declaration referred to in paragraph (1) (a) shall state the address and description of the declaranı:
and
(b) if any fact declared is not within the personal knowledge of the declarant, shall state the source of the declarant's information and the grounds for his belief in the truth of the facts; and
(c) shall be duly stamped.
18. (1) Where a complaint or information is submitted to the chairman of the Committee by the secretary, the chairman of the Committee shall, unless it appears to him that the complaint or information is frivolous or groundless and should not proceed further, direct that the complaint or information be referred to the Committee for its consideration and shall Ex a date upon which it is proposed that the Committee shall meet to consider the complaint or information.
(2) Where the chairman of the Committee directs that s complaint or information be referred to the Committee, he shall direct the secretary to, and the secretary when so directed shall-
(a) notify the defendant of the receipt of the complaint or
information;
(b) inform him of the substance thereof;
(C) forward to him a copy of any statutory declaration
furnished under paragraph (1) of regulation 17:
(d) inform him of the date upon which the Committee is due to meet for the purpose of considering the complaint or information, and
(e) invite him to submit to the Committee any explanation of his conduct or of any other matter alleged in the complaint or information which he may have to offer.
19. (1) At the meeting at which the complaint or informa- tion is considered by the Committee, the secretary shall put before the Committee the complaint or information, any statutory declara- tion received therewith, any explanation submitted by the defend- ant and any other document or matter in the nature of evidence
Reference of
the complaint or information to the Committee.
Consideration of complaint or information by the Committes.