CO129-506-11 Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance 1927 7-11-1927 - 7-11-1927 — Page 5

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Amendment

of Ordinance

2.

6.(1) Section 13 (3) of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, is amended by the substitution of the No. 1 of 1884, words "Principal Civil Medical Officer" for the words "Colonial Secretary" in the second and third lines thereof.

s. 13

Repeal of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1884, 9. 14, and substitution of new

section.

Insertion

of now

(2) Section 13 (4) of the Medical Registration Ordi- nauce, 1884, is repealed, and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :-

(4) Every person applying for registration under section 12 aball furnish to the Medical Board an address within the Colony at which all notices from the Medical Board may be served on him. Notice of the decision of the Medical Board shall be served on the applicant at the address so furnished.

7. Section 14 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

Power of

Medical

Board to

censure or

14(1) If any registered practitioner is convicted of any offence or after due inquiry is considered by the Medical Board to have strike off the been guilty of infamous conduct in any register. professional respect, the Medical Board may either censure the said registered practitioner or direct that his name be struck off the register.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Medical Board to publish the result of any inquiry bold under this section either with or without an account

of the proceedings at the said inquiry.

(3) The Medical Board may also after due inquiry direct the name of any person to be struck off the register who, in their opinion-

(a) has obtained registration by fraud or

misrepresentation; or

(6) was not at the time of registration,

entitled to be registered,

(4) Reasonable notice of any proposed in- quiry under this section shall be served on the person concerned.

(5) Notice of the decision of the Medical Board shall in all cases under this section be served on the person concerned.

(6) The striking off the register under this section or the publication under sub-section (2) shall not take place until after the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the service of the decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned and in the case of appeal shall await the decision of the Governor in Council.

8. The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1881, is amended by the insertion of the following section imme- diately after section 14 thereof :-

section 15 in Ordinance No. 1 of 1881. Service of

notices.

Amendment

of Ordinance

15. Any notice directed to be served on any person under the provisious of this Ordi- nance shall, if such notice shall have been posted by registered post to his address given in the register, or, if such person be not regis- tered, then to the address furnished by him to the Medical Board, be deemed to have been served on such person at the time of posting.

9. Section 17 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, is amended by the substitution of the words "one No. 1 of 1884, thousand dollars and imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months' for the words "one hundred

8. 17.

dollars" in the last line thereof.

Appeal.

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10. Section 18 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Repeal of 1884, is hereby repealed and the following is substituted Ordinance therefor :--

No. 1 of 1881, 8. 18, and 18. A right of appeal from any decision of substitution the Medical Board under this Ordinance shall of new section. lie to the Governor in Council. Such appeal shall be by means of a written petition. Such petition shall be presented within fourteen days from the date of service of the notice of the decision of the Medical Board on the person concerned. With such petition the Governor

in Council may consider any written reply of the Medical Board to such petition. The

decision of the Governor in Council upon such petition shall be final.

11. Section 19 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Amendment 1884, is amended by the insertion of the words "all pro- of Ordinance fessors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of No. 1 of 1884, Hong Kong" immediately after the words "civil medical 9. 19.

officers" in the first line thereof.

12. Section 20 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Repeal of 1884, is repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this

3rd day of November, 1927.

E. W. HAMILTON,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

Ordinance No. 1 of 1884, 8- 20.