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DR. CHIU:

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DRAFT SPEECH BY DR HON CHIU HIN KWONG, JP

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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20.1.88

Medical Registration (Amendment) Bill 1987

Before I speak on the present bill, I wish to declare interest as a practising medical doctor and to put on record that the following remarks also apply to the Dentists Registration (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 1987, Nurses Registration (Amendment) Bill 1987 and the Midwives Registration

(Amendment) Bill 1987.

The amendments which propose to relinguish the Director of Medical and Health Services of the chairmenship of the Medical Council, the Dental Council, the Nurses Board and the Midwives Board of Hong Kong are endorsed by my colleagues of the Medical Functional Constituency which includes doctors,

dentists, nurses and midwives. They are pleased to learn that the Bills will make provisions for these professional statutory and self-regulating bodies to carry out their responsibilities of registration and discipline of their members with more

independence under the leadership of an elected chairman. Another area which the Bills suggest and the medical personnel support is the proposal to enable the Governor to appoint one lay member to each board council. Once these provisions are implemented, we expect the lay members to work closely with the

medical members and to present their views from the perspective

of a layman so as to enable the boards and councils to adopt a

more objective attitude in the process of carrying out their

duties.

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In studying these Bills, Sir, I put them side by side

with the Legal Practitioners Ordinance fee, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Ordinance chapter and the

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