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PART VI
GENERAL
24. (1) A board may prepare and revise Codes of Practice for the relevant profession for the purposes of this Ordinance
(a) prescribing standards of conduct and practice for persons practising that profession, for the employers of persons practising that profession and the directors of any company carrying on the business of practising that profession; and
(b) regulating the activities of persons practising that profession including the activities of such persons in the supervision and control of unqualified persons assisting such persons in the practice of the profession,
and the Codes of Practice may prohibit specified activities.
(2) The secretary of the board shall cause a copy of a Code of Practice and each revision thereof to be served upon each person registered in respect of the profession to which the Code of Practice or Tevision applies.
(3) A person, who contravenes any Code of Practice prepared or revised under subsection (1) and applicable to his profession, shall be deemed to have acted in an unprofessional or improper manner; but the fact that any matters are not mentioned in a Code of Practice, shall not preclude the board from judging a person to have acted in an un- professional or improper manner by reference to those matters.
2. (D) A person guilty of an offence against
(a) section 12(2), in liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 and
to imprisonment for 2 years;
(b) section 14(6) or 14(8), is liable on conviction to a fine of $500: (c) section 18(2) or 18(3), is liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000; (d) section 1903), is liable on conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to
imprisonment for 5 months;
(e) section 20(2), is liable on conviction to a Ane of $5,000 and to
imprisonment for 5 months;
(0 section 21(1) or 21(2) is liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000
and to imprisonment for 6 months;
(g) section 23(3) or 23(6), is liable on conviction to a fine of $900
and to imprisonment for 3 months.
28 Where any notice or order is required by this Ordinance to be served upon or given to a person by the secretary then it shall be sufficient if it is sent by registered letter addressed to him at bis last registered address.
29. (1) The Governor in Council may by regulation provide for- (a) the qualifications and experience required by persons to qualify
them for registration:
(b) the additional qualifications and experience required by persons wishing to practise on their own account or as a corporation or in partnership:
(c) the licensing of premises used by persons to practice professions; (d) the supervision and control of unqualified persons who astiat
registered persons in the practice of a profession;
(2) the form and number of parts of every register and the mode in
which they shall be kept:
( the manner in which applications for registration shall be made; (g) the receipt of complaints or information about any registered person or any applicant for registration and the establishment for sach profession of a committee to be known as the Preliminary Investigation Committee for that profession to make a preliminary investigation into such complaint or information and to determine whether or not there shall be an inquiry under section 22;
(b) the prohibition of a member of any Preliminary Tovestigation Committee who is also a member of any board from attending any meeting of the board whilst it is inquiring under section 21 into a complaint or information, in the preliminary investigation of which he took part;
the fees to be paid in connexion with matters within the scope of this Ordinance;
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any certificate, document or form required for carrying our the purposes of this Ordinance.
() the duties of the members and the officers of the Council or any
board;
O anything that is to be or may be prescribed;
(M) cxempting ar providing for the exemption of any specified class of persons from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance; (n) generally carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Regulations made under this section may provide
(a) that the contravention of any particular regulation shall constitute an offence and may prescribe penalties for any such offence not exceeding a fine of $5,000 or imprisonment for 1 year or both such foc and such imprisonment; and
(b) for different fees to be paid by different categories of a profession.
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30. (1) Sections 13, 14(1), (2), (3), (4), (7) and (8), 18 and 19 shall not Dhapplication apply to the following persons practising a profession directly connected of certain with and necessary for the discharge or performance of their duties while serving in the appointments specified—
(e) a person holding a teaching appointment at a university, poly- technic, school or institution approved for the purposes of this section by the Governor;
(b) a person holding an appointment as a public officer; end
(0) a person holding an appointment in a subvented voluntary organization approved for the purposes of this section by the Council.
(2) The following persons practising a profession directly connected wilb and necessary for the discharge or performance of their duties shall while serving in the appointments specified be deemed to be registered but sections 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 19 shall not apply to or in relation to them—
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