Amendment of
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Adcluso of
new sections
JA. 38 and 3C.
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Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting sub- sections (3), (4), (5) and (6) and substituting the following-
"(3) Subject to subsections (4) and (6), a member of the Council appointed under subsection (2)(c) (d), (e) or (0) shall hold office for a period of 3 years from the date of his appointment and, at the expiry of his period of appointmeat or of any period for which he is reappointed, shall be eligible for reappointment for further periods of 3 years each.
(4) Any appointed member of the Council may at any time resign by giving notice in writing to the Chairman,
(5) Where, before the expiry of the period of his appointment, · any appointed member of the Council resigns or his office becomes vacant the Governor may appoint a person who is suitably qualified for appointment under subsection (2) to hold office în place of that member until the expiry of the period for which he was appointed.
(6) If any appointed member-
(a) is sentenced to a term of imprisonment for any offence: (b) is the subject of an order made under section 21; (c) becomes bankrupt or makes au perangement with bis credi-
tors:
(d) is, in the opinion of the Governor, incapacitated from carrying out the duties of his office by reason of physical or mental illness;
(e) is no longer ordinarily resident in Hong Kong: or (is, in the opinion of the Governor, unable or unfit to per- form his duties and exercise his powers ng a member of the Council,
the Governor may declare the member's office of membership of the Council to be vacant,
(7) Notwithstanding anything in this section, a person-
(a) against whom an order under section 21 has at any time
been made; or
(6) who is
(i) undergoing a sentence of imprisonment; (U) detained in a mental hospital; or
(i) an undischarged bankrupt,
shall not be eligible for appointment or reappointment as a member of the Council."".
4. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 3. the following new sections-
of the
Coworl
Secretary of, Bund beg adviser to the Coogdl
Temporary
CUTLER.
3A. (1) The Director shall be the Chairman of the Council
(2) If the Director is absent from any meeting of the Council, the members of the Council present at the meeting shall elect one of their members to act in his place.
3B. The Council shall have a secretary and a Legal Adviser who shall be appointed by the Governor,
3C. (1) If any appointed member of the Council is because of illness, absence from Hong Kong or any other
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reason, unable to perform his duties and exercise his powers as a member of the Council for any period, the Governor may appoint another person who is suitably qualified for appointment under section 3(2) (not being one who is dis- qualified from holding office under section 3 or who has been removed from office under that section) to be a tem- porary member of the Council in the place of the member during that period.
(2) While any person is acting as a temporary member of the Council, he shall be capable of performing all the duties and of exercising all the powers of the member whom he is temporarily replacing.".
Section 16(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendmen of "Every" and substituting the following-
"Subject to section 20A, every".
Jeriod 16.
Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Reptal und by the following....
"Power of Conocil o
Order remoTE) frädet fan register.
19 (1) The Council may order the removal from the register of the name of any person who-
(a) is deceased;
(5) is no longer practising medicine, surgery or mid-
wifery in Hong Kong:
(c) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised medicine, sur- gery or midwifery in Hong Kong for a period excceding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate; or
(d) has failed to supply the Registrar with an address in Hong Kong at which notices from the Council may be served on him.
(2) Any person who fails to acknowledge within 12 months after the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or a telegram addressed to him at the last address in Hong Kong supplied by him to the Registrar shall be deemed to have failed to supply the Registrar with an address under subsection (1)d)")
replacement of BRCIDA 190
DEW BOOLÍDRI 204 od 2.
7. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section addidon of 20, the following new sections--
"Medical
CODE
nr to practise
COMMENT
ceruthease.
20A. (1) Subject to this section, a registered medical practitioner shall not practise medicine, surgery or mid- wifery in Hong Kong, or any branch of medicine or surgery in Hong Kong, unless he is the holder of a practia- ing certificate which it then in force.
(2) Subject to the payment of the prescribed fee for the issue of a practising certificate, the Registrar, on ap plication made to him for that purpose by a registered medical practitioner, shall issue to him a certificate to the effect that he is, subject to any conditions and restrictions specified in the certificate, entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery in Hong Kong.
(3) Where a practising certificate is issued pursuant to an application made during the course of a year in respect