CAP. 161]
Medical certificates.
Definition.
Power of Council
to order removal of names from register.
Alterations to the register.
Medical practitioner not to practise without practising certificate.
Medical Registration
[1987 Ed.
17. No certificate or other document required by any written law to be signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner given after the commencement of this Ordinance shall be valid unless signed by a person who at the date of such signing was a registered medical practitioner.
18. The words "legally qualified medical practitioner" or "duly qualified medical practitioner" or any words importing a person recognized by law as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, when used in any written law with reference to such persons, shall be construed to mean a registered medical practitioner.
19. (1) The Council may order the removal from the register of the name of any person who-
(a) is deceased;
(b) is no longer practising medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong;
(c) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong for a period exceeding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate; or
(d) has failed to supply the Registrar with an address in Hong Kong at which notices from the Council may be served on him.
(2) Any person who fails to acknowledge within 12 months after the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or a telegram addressed to him at the last address in Hong Kong supplied by him to the Registrar shall be deemed to have failed to supply the Registrar with an address under subsection (1)(d).
(Replaced, 70 of 1975, s. 6)
20. (1) The Registrar may on payment of the prescribed fee amend any entry in the register if any alteration in or addition to the address or qualification of or other relevant information relating to the person named in such entry shall have come to his knowledge. (Amended, 63 of 1982, s. 9)
(2) The Registrar shall make such amendments to the register as are made necessary by any decision of the Council.
20A. (1) Subject to this section, a registered medical practitioner shall not practise medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong, or any branch of medicine or surgery in Hong Kong, unless he is the holder of a practising certificate which is then in force.
(2) Subject to the payment of the prescribed fee for the issue of a practising certificate, the Registrar, on application made to him for that purpose by a registered medical practitioner, shall issue to him a certificate to the effect that he is, subject to any conditions and restrictions specified in the certificate, entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery in Hong Kong.
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CAP. 161]
Medical certificates.
Definition.
Power of Council
to order removal of names from register.
Alterations to the register.
Medical practitioner not to practise without practising certificate.
Medical Registration
[1987 Ed.
17. No certificate or other document required by any written law to be signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner given after the commencement of this Ordinance shall be valid unless signed by a person who at the date of such signing was a registered medical practitioner.
18. The words "legally qualified medical practitioner" or "duly qualified medical practitioner" or any words importing a person recognized by law as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, when used in any written law with reference to such persons, shall be construed to mean a registered medical practitioner.
19. (1) The Council may order the removal from the register of the name of any person who-
(a) is deceased;
(b) is no longer practising medicine, surgery or midwifery in
Hong Kong;
(c) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong for a period exceeding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate; or
(d) has failed to supply the Registrar with an address in Hong Kong at which notices from the Council may be served on him.
(2) Any person who fails to acknowledge within 12 months after the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or a telegram addressed to him at the last address in Hong Kong supplied by him to the Registrar shall be deemed to have failed to supply the Registrar with an address under subsection (1)(d).
(Replaced, 70 of 1975, s. 6)
20. (1) The Registrar may on payment of the prescribed fee amend any entry in the register if any alternation in or addition to the address or qualification of or other relevant information relating to the person named in such entry shall have come to his knowledge. (Amended, 63 of 1982, s. 9)
(2) The Registrar shall make such amendments to the register as are made necessary by any decision of the Council.
20A. (1) Subject to this section, a registered medical practi- tioner shall not practise medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong, or any branch of medicine or surgery in Hong Kong, unless he is the holder of a practising certificate which is then in force.
(2) Subject to the payment of the prescribed fee for the issue of a practising certificate, the Registrar, on application made to him for that purpose by a registered medical practitioner, shall issue to him a certificate to the effect that he is, subject to any conditions and restrictions specified in the certificate, entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery in Hong Kong.
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