CO129-588-17 Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance 1941 6-3-1941 - 3-11-1941 — Page 7

L.S.

HONG KONG.

No. 5 OF 1941.

1 assent.

E. F. NORTON,

Officer Administering the Government.

7th March, 1941.

An Ordinance to amend the Medical Registration Ordinance,

1935.

[7th March, 1941.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Regis- Short title tration Amendment Ordinance, 1941.

ance No.

2. Section 11 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Amendment 1935, is amended by the insertion of the words "and of Ordin- possesses an adequate knowledge of the English language, 41 of 1935, both spoken and written after the words is of good s. 11. character at the end of the proviso thereto.

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3. Section 13 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, Amendments 1935, is amended-

(a) by the repeal of sub-section (1) thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following sub-section :-

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of Ordin-

ance No. 41 of 1935, S. 13.

Board to

suspend,

(1) If any registered practitioner is convicted of any Power of offence or after due inquiry is judged by the Medical Board Medical to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional strike off respect, the Medical Board shall have power to make any such the register, order as to removing from or striking off the register the name censure, etc. of the registered practitioner convicted of such offence or judged guilty of such conduct as aforesaid, as to suspending him from practice, as to censure, as to the payment of costs by any party attending the inquiry, and otherwise in relation to the case as the Medical Board may think fit.

(b) by the addition of the following sub-sections after sub-section (6) at the end thereof :-

(7) The Medical Board may, if it thinks fit, at any time. direct that the name of a registered practitioner whose name has been removed from or struck off the register be replaced thereon.

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