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Council CHAMBER,

28th April 1970.

Clerk of Councils,

Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

These regulations relate to the enrolment and disciplinary pro- cedure provided for enrolled assistant nur508.

2. Regulation 2 contains definitions for the interpretation of the regulations. Regulation 3 contains provisions relating to the contents of the toll of enrolled assistant nurses which is maintained by the Nursing Board under section 22 of the Ordinance.

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Regulation 4 deals with applications for enrolment and regulation 5 with certificates of enrolment Regulations 6 and 7 provide for fees. Regulation & prescribes the procedure to be followed for the removal from, or restoration to, the roll of the name of any person.

4. Regulation 9 provides for the establishment of training schools for carolled assistant nurses. Regulation 10 prescribed the minimum age of persons commencing training for enrolment as an enrolled assistant nurse. Regulation 11 sets out the minimum educational standard of such trainees and regulation 12 the minimum training qualification for candidates for examination for enrolment. Regulations 13 and 14 contain provisions relating to such examinations.

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5. Regulation 15 establishes & Preliminary Investigation Committee to investigate complaints about an enrolled assistant nurse. By regulation 16, any such complaint must be submitted to the chairman of the Committee.

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Regulations 17 to 19 prescribe the procedure to be followed if a complaint of unprofessional conduct by un enrolled assistant nurse is received by the chairman of the Committee.

7. Under regulation 20 the Committee may, after considering any such complaint or information, determine that no inquiry shall be held and the complainant shall be so informed,

Regulation 21 contains the procedure to be followed if the Committee determines that an inquiry shall be held into a complaint.

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Regulation 22 deals with the adjournment of an inquiry. Regula tion 23 empowers the Board to refer back to the Preliminary Investigatio Committee for further consideration any complaint or information.

Regulation 24 obliges each party to an inquiry to furnish to the Board two copies of any document upon which he intends to rely at the hearing. Regulation 26 allows a party to an inquiry to give notice to another party to produce any relevant document in his possession.

10. Regulation 27 enables the Board to amend a notice of inquiry.

11. By regulation 28 a typewritten record of an inquiry shall be made available to a party upon payment of the prescribed fée. Regulations 29 to 13 deal to detail with the procedure during an inquiry. Under regula- tion 34 the Board may, upon finding a defendant guilty of the complaint with which he is charged, postpone sentence upon the defendant. Regula- tion 35 allows the Board to take into account millgating circumstances when sentencing a defendant found guilty of a charge. If the Board hus postponed passing sentence upon a defendant, it shall notify the defendant of the time and place on which it shall pass sentence upon him (regulation 36)

12. The methods by which evidence may be given at a disciplinary inquiry and by which a person may be required to attend before the Board to give evidence are dealt with in regulation 37.

13. Regulation 38 prescribes the procedure whereby voles shall be taken from members of the Board of any matter put before the Board for its determination.

14. Regulations 39, 40 and 41 provide for the attendance at meetings of the Board of the Board's legal adviser and his duties and functions at such meetings,

15. The First Schedule specifies the particulars to be entered in the roll of enrolled assistant nurses. The Second Schedule prescribes the fees payable under regulations 4, 6, 7 and 14. The Third Schedule contains the forms of the certificate of enrolment, the notice of inquiry into a complaint and the summons to a witness to attend an inquiry by the Board,