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Wednesday, January 7, 1976
LEGISLATION GOVERNING PROFESSIONS IN MEDICAL FIELD
EETIEFE EL TE VE
Two working drafts of proposed legislation to govern the professions
supplementary to medicine have already been prepared and considered, the
Director for Medical and Health Services, Dr. the Hon. Gerald Choa, said
this afternoon.
He was replying to a question raised in the Legislative Council by
Dr. the Hon. Harry Fang as to what progress had been made by a working
party set up some two years ago to consider such legislation.
Dr. Choa said, "the working party had concluded that such legis-
lation was both "feasible and desirable". Referring to the two working
drafts, he said, "some amendments still require to be made."
He said that once the Ordinance had been enacted, it would be
necessary for regulations to be prepared to deal with each of the seven
professions concerned.
He pointed out that a first rough draft had, in fact, been prepared
of regulations dealing with medical laboratory technicians and this would
be considered as soon as the Ordinance had been finalised.
"It is hoped that this set of regulations, when in complete form,
will provide a pattern on which the regulations for the other professions
can be based," he said.
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