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INTRODUCTION

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Adaptation of Laws - Paper No. 4

Architects Registration Ordinance, Cap. 408 Engineers Registration Ordinance, Cap. 409 Surveyors Registration Ordinance, Cap. 417 Planners Registration Ordinance, Cap. 418

August 1993

This paper has been prepared as a basis for consultation in accordance with the principles for consultation agreed with the Chinese side at JLG XVII on the way in which the British side intends to adapt certain provisions in Hong Kong laws in order to ensure that

they are consistent with the Basic Law.

2.

This paper deals with four Ordinances which provide for the registration and disciplinary control of the professional activities of architects, engineers, surveyors and planners respectively. The

Ordinances are the Architects Registration Ordinance (Cap. 408), the

Engineers Registration Ordinance (Cap. 409),

Surveyors

Registration Ordinance (Cap. 417) and the Planners Registration Ordinance (Cap. 418).

the

3.

The British side envisages-that the proposals set out below would be incorporated in a schedule of amendments to be attached to a

Bill for enactment by the Hong Kong legislature before 1 July 1997.

The Bill would come into force on enactment but the amendments would

take effect on 1 July 1997.

PROPOSALS

4.

follows

The British side proposes to adapt these four Ordinances as

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