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Ord. No. 42/80

SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL PROFESSIONS:

L.S.

HONG KONG

No. 42 OF 1980

I assent.

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

10 July 1980.

An Ordinance to provide for registration, discipline and the better control of persons engaged in occupations and professions supplementary- to medicine.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

Short title.

commencement

and application.

Schedule.

Interpretation.

Schedule.

Schedule.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance 1980 and shall come into operation on a day to be- appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

(2) This Ordinance shall apply to any profession included in the Schedule with effect from such date as the Governor may appoint by order in the Gazette and any such order may fix different dates for different provisions of this Ordinance.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "board" means any board established under section 5;

"certificate of registration" means a certificate of registration or a duplicate certificate of registration issued under section 14 and a certificate of provisional registration issued under section 15;

"Council" means

the Supplementary Medical Professions established under section 3;

Council

"practising certificate" means a certificate issued under section 16; "profession" means any profession specified in the second column in the

Schedule;

"registered" means entered in a register in accordance with sections 13 and

15 or restored to the register in accordance with section 10; "registered address" means the address appearing upon the certificate of

registration issued under section 14.

(2) A profession specified in the second column in the Schedule shall mean the occupation of persons of the description specified opposite thereto. in the second column.

(3) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person shall be deemed to practise a profession, who, for gain or otherwise, represents himself, whether directly or by implication from his conduct, as practising or being prepared! or entitled to practise that profession.