1964_ENROLLED_NURSES_(ENROLMENT_AND_DISCIPLINARY_PROCEDURE)_REGULATIONS — Page 8

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Submission or receipt of complaint or information.

Complaint or information touching conduct.

CAP. 164] Enrolled Assistant Nurses (Enrolment and

Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations.

[1970 Ed.

person so resigning shall, if so required by the Board or, as the case may be, the Director, continue to be a member of the Committee for the purposes of the consideration of such complaint or information but for no other purpose, until the Committee has discharged its functions in respect of the complaint or information.

(9) No member of the Committee shall attend any meeting of the Board as a member of the Board during the hearing or determination of any complaint or information against any person which is referred to the Board by the Committee for determination if such member has attended any meeting of the Committee at which such complaint or information was considered.

(10) The Committee shall meet from time to time as directed by the chairman of the Committee who may at any time adjourn any meeting of the Committee.

16. Where a complaint is made to or information is received by the secretary that an enrolled assistant nurse—

(a) has been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable with imprisonment;

(b) has been guilty of unprofessional conduct;

(c) has obtained enrolment by fraud or misrepresentation; or (d) was not at time of his enrolment entitled to be enrolled,

the secretary shall submit the complaint or information to the chairman of the Committee.

17. (1) Where, in a complaint or information submitted by the secretary to the chairman of the Committee under regulation 16, any allegation is made which in the opinion of the chairman of the Committee gives rise to a question whether an enrolled assistant nurse has been guilty of unprofessional conduct, the chairman of the Committee may require that the complaint or information be formulated in writing setting out the grounds thereof and, except where the complaint or information is in writing under the hand of a public officer, supported by one or more statutory declarations as to the facts of the case.

(2) Each statutory declaration referred to in paragraph (1)—

(a) shall state the address and description of the declarant;

and

(b) if any fact declared is not within the personal knowledge of the declarant, shall state the source of the declarant's information and the grounds for his belief in the truth of the facts; and

(c) shall be duly stamped.

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