Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression hus been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
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Clerk to the Legislative Council
HONG KONG
No. 68 of 1972
I assent
Mr. Machen
Governor.
16th November, 1972.
An Ordinance to establish the Hong Kong Society of Accountants and to provide for the registration and control of the account- ancy profession, and for matters ancillary to or connected with the purposes aforesaid.
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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
This Ordinance may be cited as the Professional Account ants Ordinance 1972 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
Short title and commence- ment,
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires Interpretation. "approved institute" means an institute, society, association or
other body specified in the Schedule:
Schedule,
"certified public accountant" means a professional accountant registered as such by virtue of section 24(1) and holding a practising certificate;