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on the codes of practice drawn up or any subsequent

revision made to them.

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Clause 9 enables regulations to be made, creating

categories of registered persons according to their

qualifications, training and experience, prescribing the

qualifications and experience necessary for practising a

profession without supervision, specifying who would be

entitled to practise without supervision, and restricting

those without the prescribed qualifications from doing so.

The Ordinance as it stands enables persons with

qualifications and experience additional to those required

to qualify for registration to "practise on their own

account. Since that phrase implies control of the mode of

business, rather than the need and adequacy of professional

supervision, it is proposed to replace practise on their

own account" with "practise without supervision to reflect

the real intention of the law. This clause also contains

amendments for regulations to be made enabling the Board to

determine the quality of the experience acceptable to the

Board and to accept experience other than the prescribed

experience.

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Clause 10 requires para-medical professionals

working in approved teaching institutions, subvented

organisations or the civil service to be registered rather

than exempted as at present, so that they too will be

subject to the disciplinary control of the professional Boards. However, they will continue to be exempted from

The

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