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Ord. No. 50/77

Recovery of practising fees.

Amendment of

6.

section 29.

PHARMACY AND POISONS (AMENDMENT)

10B. (1) If any registered pharmacist contravenes sub- section (1) of section 10A, the amount of the prescribed fee payable by him under subsection (2) of that section shall be recoverable as a civil debt.

(2) In any proceedings under this section a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Secretary to the effect that the registered pharmacist concerned had not paid the prescribed fee for the issue of a practising certificate shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of non- payment of the fee.

(3) On recovery from a registered pharmacist of a prescribed fee under this section the Secretary shall, if the registered pharmacist's name appears on the register of pharmacists, issue the registered pharmacist with the appropriate practising certificate.".

Section 29(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by inserting after paragraph (a) the following new paragraphs-

"(aa) prescribing the form of practising certificate for a registered pharmacist and the fees to be paid on the issue of such certificate;

(ab) the disposal of any fee paid or recovered under this

Ordinance;"; and

(b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following new subsection-

"(1A) Any regulations made under subsection (1)(aa) may prescribe different fees to be payable by different categories of pharmacists.".

1977.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 29th day of June,

L. TSE,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

L. TSE,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.