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[接上页] (2) The secretary of the board shall from time to time insert in the register any alteration or addition which may come to his knowledge to the name, addresses, or qualifications of any person registered. (3) The secretary shall make such amendments to the register as are made necessary by any decision of the board. (4) The board may direct the removal from the register of the name of any person who- (a) requests in writing that his name be so removed; (b) is deceased; (c) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised a profession in Hong Kong for a period exceeding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate; (d) is not practising his profession in Hong Kong; or (e) has not supplied the secretary of the board with an address in Hong Kong at which all notices from the board may be served on him: Provided that any person failing to acknowledge within 6 months of the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or telegram addressed to him at the last address supplied by him to the secretary shall be deemed not to have supplied the secretary with an address under this paragraph.(5) A person whose name has been removed from a register under this section or section 22, may apply to the board for the restoration of his name to the register, and, subject to the submission by such person of a declaration stating whether or not he has been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable with imprisonment since the date of the last declaration made by him to the like effect for the purposes of his registration or his application for a practising certificate (as the case may be), the board may subject to any conditions it considers appropriate, approve or decline the application, and, if it approves the same, the secretary of the board shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, restore the name accordingly. (Amended 68 of 1995 s. 2; 80 of 1997 s. 96) (6) A register may be inspected without payment of any fee, during usual business hours upon application to the secretary of the board. Cap 359 s 11 Publication of register and evidence of registration (1) As soon as may be after 1 July of every year, the secretary of each board shall prepare and publish in the Gazette, lists of the names, addresses, qualifications and dates of the qualifications of all persons whose names appear on the register maintained by the secretary, on 1 July immediately preceding the publication of such list. (2) The publication of a list under subsection (1) shall be evidence that each person named in such list is registered. (3) The absence of the name of a person from the list last published under subsection (1) shall be evidence that such person is not registered. (4) A certificate under the signature of the secretary of a board stating that the name of a person is or is not at any date or was or was not at any date registered shall be admitted in evidence on its production without further proof and- (a) until the contrary is proved it shall be presumed that the certificate was signed by that secretary; and (b) the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. (Replaced 67 of 1985 s. 4) Cap 359 s 12 Persons who are qualified to be registered (1) Subject to this Ordinance, the following persons are qualified to be registered- (a) a person who- (i) holds such degree, diploma or other document as may be prescribed, issued by any examining body as may be prescribed or by the board; or (ii) holds any such degree, diploma or other document and has the prescribed experience; or (Replaced 70 of 1989 s. 2)(b) a person who holds such other degree, diploma or any other document of any examining body, which together with appropriate experience, may from time to time be recognized by the Council as qualifying the holder thereof to be registered; and in deciding whether or not to so recognize the Council may consult the relevant board; or (c) a person who, on the date on which this section commenced to apply to a profession, is practising that profession and who by reason of his education, training, professional experience and skill satisfies the Council, after consultation with the relevant board, that he is a fit person to be registered.(1A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance, the Council shall- (a) determine in which part of the register, not being a part referred to in section 15(8), the name of a person qualified to be registered by virtue of subsection (1)(b) or (c) shall be entered, subject to his application for registration being approved under section 13(2); and (b) direct the secretary of the relevant board accordingly for the purposes of entry in the register under section 13(4). (Added 70 of 1989 s. 2)(2) A person who wilfully procures himself or any other person to be registered by making or producing or causing to be made or produced, any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, whether in writing or otherwise commits an offence. |