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Publication of register and evidence of registration.

Persons who are qualified to be registered.

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(4) The board may direct the removal from the register of the name of any person who-

(a) requests in writing that his name be so removed;

(b) is deceased;

(c) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised a profession in Hong Kong for a period exceeding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate;

(d) is not practising his profession in Hong Kong; or

(e) has not supplied the secretary of the board with an address in Hong Kong at which all notices from the board may be served on him:

Provided that any person failing to acknowledge within 6 months of the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or telegram addressed to him at the last address supplied by him to the secretary shall be deemed not to have supplied the secretary with an address under this paragraph.

(5) A person whose name has been removed from a register under this section or section 22, may apply to the board for the restoration of his name to the register, and the board may subject to any conditions it considers appropriate, approve or decline the application, and, if it approves the same, the secretary of the board shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, restore the name accordingly.

(6) A register may be inspected without payment of any fee, during usual business hours upon application to the secretary of the board.

11. (1) As soon as may be after 1 July of every year, the secretary of each board shall prepare and publish in the Gazette, lists of the names, addresses, qualifications and dates of the qualifications of all persons whose names appear on the register maintained by the secretary, on 1 July immediately preceding the publication of such list.

(2) The publication of a list under subsection (1) shall be evidence that each person named in such list is registered.

(3) The absence of the name of a person from the list last published under subsection (1) shall be evidence that such person is not registered.

(4) A certificate signed and dated by the secretary of a board, stating that the name of a person has been entered on or removed from a register shall be conclusive evidence that as at the date of the certificate such person is or is not registered.

12. (1) Subject to this Ordinance, the following persons are qualified to be registered-

(a) a person who holds such degree, diploma or other document of an examining body as may be prescribed or who holds such degree, diploma or other document and who has such experience as may be prescribed; or

(b) a person who holds such other degree, diploma or any other document of any examining body, which together with appropriate experience, may from time to time be recognized by the Council as qualifying the holder thereof to be registered; and in deciding whether or not to so recognize the Council may consult the relevant board; or

(c) a person who, on the date on which this section commenced to apply to a profession, is practising that profession and who by

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reason of his education, training, professional experience and skill satisfies the Council, after consultation with the relevant board, that he is a fit person to be registered.

(2) A person who wilfully procures himself or any other person to be registered by making or producing or causing to be made or produced, any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, whether in writing or otherwise commits an offence.

registration.

13. (1) A person claiming to be qualified to be registered may apply Application for in the manner prescribed to the secretary of the relevant board for re- gistration and such application shall be accompanied by such documents, photographs and particulars as may be prescribed.

(2) If after due inquiry the board is satisfied that an applicant for registration is qualified in accordance with section 12 to be registered, or should under section 15(2) be issued with a certificate of provisional re- gistration, the board shall approve the application subject to such condi- tions as the board may consider appropriate:

Provided that if the board is satisfied that an applicant-

(a) has been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of an offence

punishable with imprisonment;

(b) has acted in an unprofessional or improper manner; or (c) is the subject of an existing order under section 22(1)(i) or (ii), it may decline the application.

(3) Where an application for registration receives the approval of the board, the name of the applicant shall after payment of the prescribed fee be entered in the register by the secretary of the board and upon such entry, the applicant shall be entitled to represent in connexion with his profession that he is registered and, subject to section 16(1), shall be entitled to practise that profession.

14. (1) When a person has been registered, the secretary of the Certificate of relevant board shall issue to him a certificate of registration in the registration. prescribed form.

(2) The secretary of the board may amend any particulars contained in a certificate of registration.

(3) A person registered who requires a certified copy of his certificate of registration in order to comply with section 18 shall apply in writing to the secretary of the relevant board stating the address of the premises at which he proposes to practise, and the secretary shall upon payment of the prescribed fee issue to the person registered a certified copy of his certificate of registration with the words "certified copy" endorsed thereon. (4) The registered address appearing upon the certificate of registra- tion shall be the principal address at which the person registered practises his profession.

(5) Every person registered shall report to the secretary of the relevant board--

(a) every address at which he practises his profession; and

(b) any change in his registered address or the change of any other address at which he practises his profession for gain within 2 months of such change and within such period lodge his certificate of registration or certified copy of his certificate of registration, as the case may be, with the secretary for amendment.