1980-HKRS28-16-28_Part03 — Page 15

Purpose of boards.

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(a) resign his office by notice to the Governor; or

(b) be removed from office by the Governor for permancat in- capacity or other sufficient cause fas to the existence of which the decision of the Governor shall be final),

and upon such resignation or removal the term for which he was appointed or reappointed shall be deemed to have expired.

(4) There shall bo-

(a) a secretary; and

(b) a legal adviser,

10 each board who shall be appointed by the Governor.

6. The purposes of a board appointed under section 5 shall be- (a) to promote adequate standards of professional practice and professional conduct among members of the relevant profession; and

(b) to carry out the functious assigned to it under this Ordinance.

T. (1) The Councũ and each board shall meet at such times and places as their respective Chairmen may appoint.

(2) At any meeting of the Council or a board 6 members shall form a quorum.

(3) In the absence of the Chairman from any meeting of the Council, the Deputy Chairman shall act in his place and it the Deputy Chairman is also absent, those members present shall appoint one of their number to act as chairman.

(4) In the absence of the Chairman from any meeting of a board, those members present shall appoint one of their number to act in his place.

(5) Every ilem for consideration before any meeting of the Council of a board shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting, thereon, and in the event of an equality of votes the Chairman or member presiding shall have a casting vote in addition to his original vote.

(6) Subject to this Ordinance, the Counci) and a board may regulate its own procedure.

B. The Council and a board may transact any of its business by the circulation of papers and a resolution in writing which is approved in writing by a majority of the members shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Council or a board by the votes of the members so approving the resolution.

(1) Subject to this section the Council and any board may appoint committees for the better discharge of its functions under this Ordinance.

(2) The number of members of any such committee and their term of office shall be fixed by the Council or the board, as the case may be. (3) Any committee may include persons who are not members of the Council of the board.

(4) Each committee shall have as its chairman a member of the Council or of the board, and the Council or the board may make rules respecting the quorum, proceedings and place of meeting of any committer.

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(5) The Council or a board may in writing delegate to a committee, with or without restrictions or conditions, any of the powers or functions of the Council or the board:

Provided that no delegation made bereunder shall preclude the Council or the board from exercising or performing at any time any of the powers or functions so delegated.

PART II

REGISTRATION AND PRACTISING CERTIFICATES

10. (1) Each board shall cause a register for the relevant profession Every profes to be kept in the form prescribed and the secretary of the board shall be sion to have a responsible for the maintenance and custody of the register.

(2) The secretary of the board shall from time to time insert in the register any alteration or addition which may come to his knowledge to the name, addresses, or qualifications of any person registered.

(3) The secretary shall make such amendments to the register as are made necessary by any decision of the board.

(4) The board may direct the removal from the register of the name of any person who-

(a) requests in writing that his name be so removed;

(b) is deceased;

(c) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised a profession in Hong Kong for a period exceeding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate;

(d) is not practising his profession in Hong Kong or

(e) has not supplied the secretary of the board with an address in Hong Kong at which all notices from the board may be served on him:

Provided that any person failing to acknowledge within 6 mooths of the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or telegram addressed to him at the last address supplied by him to the secretary shall be decried not to have supplied the secretary with an address under this paragraph.

(5) A person whose name has been removed from a register under this section or section 22, may apply to the board for the restoration of his name to the register, and the board may subject to any conditions it considers appropriate, approve or decline the application, and, if it approves the same, the secretary of the board shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, restore the name accordingly.

(6) A register may be inspected without payment of any fee, during usual business hours upon application to the secretary of the board.

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11. (D) As soon as may be after 1 July of every year, the secretary Publication of of each board shall prepare and publish in the Gazette, lists of the names, evidence of addresses, qualifications and dates of the qualifications of all persons whose names appear on the register maintained by the secretary, on 1 July immediately preceding the publication of such list.

(2) The publication of a list under subsection (1) shall be evidence that each person named in such list is registered.

LAUSULOD.