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Provisional registration.
Registered
person not to practise without
practising
certificate.
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(6) Any person registered who fails without reasonable excuse to make a report in accordance with subsection (5)(a) or (b) commits an offence.
(7) If a certificate of registration has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the person registered may apply in writing to the secretary of the relevant board to issue to him a duplicate certificate of registration and the secretary, upon being satisfied as to such loss, destruction or defacement, shall upon payment of the prescribed fee issue to the person registered a duplicate of such certificate with the word "duplicate" endorsed thereon.
(8) If it appears to the secretary of a board that a certificate of registration is defaced or that the photograph thereon is not a reasonable likeness of the person registered to whom the certificate of registration relates the secretary by notice in writing may require the person registered to lodge his certificate of registration with the secretary and to apply for the issue of a duplicate certificate of registration or of another certified copy, as the case may be, and any person registered who on being so required fails without reasonable excuse to do so within 7 days of the service of such notice commits an offence.
15. (1) A person who is practising a profession on the date when this Part commenced to apply to that profession, but who, on that date, is not qualified under section 12 to be registered, may apply, within such period of time from such date as may be determined by the Council, to the secretary of the relevant board for provisional registration.
(2) If the board is satisfied that an applicant for provisional registra- tion has acquired substantial knowledge, experience and skill in the practice of his profession the board may dispense with the requirements of section 12(1) and may authorize its secretary, upon payment of the prescribed fee, to issue to such applicant a certificate of provisional re- gistration with the word "provisional" endorsed thereon.
(3) The board may, in exercising the powers conferred by subsection (2), impose on an applicant for provisional registration such conditions as it thinks fit.
(4) Where the board has imposed conditions under subsection (3) it may cancel, amend or add to those conditions.
(5) Any conditions imposed under subsection (3), as the same may have been amended or added to under subsection (4), shall be included in the certificate of provisional registration issued to the person to whom the conditions apply.
(6) Where any person to whom such conditions apply fails to comply with those conditions, the board may cancel that person's provisional registration and direct that his name and particulars be removed from the register.
(7) Section 12(2) and section 13 shall apply to every application for provisional registration under this section.
(8) The names and particulars of persons to whom certificates of provisional registration are issued under this section shall appear in a separate part of the register.
16. (1) A person registered shall not practise a profession in Hong Kong unless he is the holder of a practising certificate which is then in force.
(2) Subject to the payment of the prescribed fee, the secretary of the relevant board, on application made to him for that purpose by a
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person registered, shall issue to him a certificate to the effect that he is, subject to any conditions and restrictions specified in the certificate, entitled to practise his profession.
(3) Where a practising certificate is issued pursuant to an application made during the course of a year in respect of that year, the certificate shall, subject to subsection (5), be in force from the time of its issue until the end of that year.
(4) Where a practising certificate is issued pursuant to an application made during the course of a year in respect of the following year, the certificate shall, subject to subsection (5), be in force for a period of 12 months commencing on 1 July in that following year.
(5) If at any time during the currency of a practising certificate, the holder of the certificate ceases to be registered, the certificate shall thereupon be deemed cancelled.
(6) A person who is required under this section to be the holder of a practising certificate under this section shall be deemed to have obtained the certificate when he has duly applied to the secretary of the board and paid the prescribed fee for the issue thereof.
(7) A person who is required under this section to be the holder of a practising certificate shall not be entitled to recover any fees, costs or other remuneration on any cause of action relating to the practice of his profession unless he was, at the time when the cause of action arose, the holder of a valid practising certificate.
17. (1) If any person registered contravenes section 16(1) the amount Recovery of of the fee prescribed for the purposes of section 16(2) shall be recoverable practising fees. as a civil debt by claim made in the name of the secretary of the relevant board.
(2) In any proceedings under this section a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the secretary of the board, that the person registered, has not paid the fee prescribed 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 person of a prescribed fee under this section, the secretary of the relevant board shall, if the person is registered, issue a practising certificate to him.
18. (1) A person registered shall keep displayed in a conspicuous Certificate of position in any premises in which he practises his profession, his certificate registration to of registration, or a certified copy of such certificate issued under section 14(3).
(2) A person registered who fails to comply with subsection (1) com- mits an offence.
(3) A person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed in any premises, a certificate of registration or a certified copy of a certificate of registration bearing his name or photograph, at a time when his name does not appear on the register kept for the profession to which that certificate relates, commits an offence.
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CONTROL OF PROFESSIONS
be displayed in premises.
19. (1) No person registered shall practise his profession in premises Premises to be which are considered by the relevant board to be unsuitable for such suitable for practice.
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