Schedule
Schedule.
Establishment
and compost- Geo of Coudċi.
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"Council" means the Supplementary Medical Professions
Established under section 3:
Council
"practising certificate" means a certificate issued under section 16; "profession" means any profession specified in the second column in the
Schedule:
"registered" means entered in a register in accordance with sections 13 and
15 or restored to the register in accordance with section 10; "registered address" means the address appearing upon the certificate of
registration issued under section 14.
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(2) A profession specified in the second column in the Schedule shail mean the occupation of persons of the description specified opposite thereto in the second column.
(3) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person shall be deemed to practise a profession, who, for gain or otherwise, represents himself, whether directly or by implication from his conduct, as practising or being prepared or entitled to practise that profession.
PART II
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ESTABLISHMENT and Powers of COUNCIL AND BOARDS
3. (D) There shall be a Council called the Supplementary Medical Professions Council and consisting of the following membera
(4) a Chairman to be appointed by the Governor;
(b) a Deputy Chairman to be appointed by the Govemat:
(c) not more than 4 public officers appointed by the Governor;
(d) the following persons, whose terms of office shall run for 3 consecutive years, from the respective dates of their appointment- ( 1 person appointed by the Governor on the nomination of the University of Hong Kong,
(ii) person appointed by the Governor on the nomination of The Chinese University of Hong Kong:
(ii) ] person appointed by the Governor on the nomination of the Hong Kong Polytechnici
(iv) 1 person appointed by the Governor from each profession; and
(v) 4 other persons, not being public officers, appointed by the Govemar,
(2) Any member appointed under subsection (1)(d) may, upon the expiry of his term of office, be reappointed.
(3) Any member appointed under subsection (1)ɗ) or reappointed under subsection (2) may before the expiry of his term of office-
(a) resign his office by notice to the Governor, or
(5) be removed from office by the Governor for permanent incapacity or other sufficient cause (as to the existence of which the decision of the Gavemor shall be final),
and upon such resignation or removal the term for which he was appointed or reappointed shall be deemed to have expired.
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(4) There shall be-
(a) a secretary; and
(8) a legal adviser,
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to the Council who shall be appointed by the Governor.
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(1) The purposes of the Council shall be-
(a) to promote adequate standards of professional practice and of
professional conduct in the professions;
(6) to co-ordinate and supervise the activities of the boards established
under section 3; and
(e) to carry out any additional functions assigned to it by this
Ordinance.
(2) The Counct shall perform its function of co-ordinating and super- vising the activities of the boards-
(a) by making to each board, or inviting the board to make to the Council, proposals as to the activities to be carried on by the board or other boards;
(6) by recommending a board to carry on such activities, or to limit its activities in such manner, as the Council considers appropriate after consultation with the beard on the proposals referred to in paragraph (4);
(c) by concerning itself with matters appearing to it to be of special interest to any 2 or more of the boards, and by giving to the boards such advice and assistance as it thinks fit with respect to such maltera; and
(d) by exercising its powers under this Ordinance in such manner as the Council considers most conductive to the satisfactory per- formance by each board of the board's functions under this Ordin-
5.
ance.
Purposes of
the Cornell.
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(1) For each profession there shall be a board consisting of not Esche less than 9 and not more than 12 members comprising the following- won of boardų,
(a) a Chairman appointed by the Governor from among the members of the Council, other than a member appointed "under section 3(1)(DOVK
(6) 1 person, being a registered medical practitioner, appointed by the Gövemer, on the nomination of the Hong Kong Medical Associa- tion;
(c) 1 person, being a registered medical practitioner, appointed by the Governor on the nomination of the Hong Kong Brauch of the British Medical Association;
(d) 1 person specially qualified to advise the board on professional
education appointed by the Governor; and
(e) not less than 5 and not more than 8 persons, being members of
the relevant profession, appointed by the Governor.
(2) Any member of a board may, upon the expiry of his term of office, be reappointed.
(3) Any member of a board appointed under subsection (1) or reappointed under subsection (2) may "before the expiry of his term of office-