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[接上页] "Registrar" (注册主任) means the Registrar of Clinics. Cap 343 s 3 Appointment of Registrar For the purposes of this Ordinance, there shall be a Registrar of Clinics who shall be the Director of Health. (Amended L.N. 76 of 1989) Cap 343 s 4 Register of clinics (1) The Registrar shall cause a register of clinics to be kept in such form as shall be prescribed containing names and addresses and such other particulars as may be prescribed of applicants who have been registered. (2) The Registrar shall be responsible for the maintenance and custody of the register of clinics. (3) The Registrar shall cause to be published in the Gazette- (a) as soon as may be after 1 January of every year a list of clinics registered under section 5 and of clinics exempted under section 8; and (b) notification of any exemption granted or cancellation thereof under section 8 or any cancellation of registration under section 10.(4) A certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Registrar that a clinic is registered or is not registered or is exempted or is not exempted shall be evidence of the facts set out therein until the contrary is proved. Cap 343 s 5 Registration of clinics (1) Application for registration as a clinic shall be made to the Registrar in such form as he may prescribe, and such form shall require a statement of the objects of the clinic to be included. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Registrar shall, on receipt of an application for registration, register the applicant in respect of the clinic named in the application, subject to such conditions, if any, as he may impose, and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration in the prescribed form: Provided that the Registrar may refuse to register the applicant if he is satisfied- (a) that the applicant or any person employed by him at the clinic is not a fit person, whether by reason of age or otherwise, to carry on or to be employed at a clinic; or (b) that for reasons connected with situation, construction, accommodation, staffing or equipment, the premises to be used in connection with the clinic are not fit to be used for the purposes of a clinic or that such premises are used or to be used for purposes which are in any way improper or undesirable in the case of a clinic; or (c) that the clinic will not be under the continuous personal supervision of a registered medical practitioner; or (d) that- (i) the income derived or to be derived from the establishment or operation of the clinic is not, or will not be, applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the clinic; or (ii) any portion of such income, except payment in good faith of remuneration to any such properly employed registered medical practitioners, persons employed pursuant to an exemption granted under section 8, nurses and menial servants working in the clinic, is, or will be, paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise howsoever by way of profit to the applicant himself, or to any persons properly so employed, or to any other persons howsoever.(3) In the case of a clinic run by a registered trade union exclusively for its members and the families of such members, the Registrar shall not refuse registration solely on the grounds set out in paragraph (d) of subsection (2) where the income derived or to be derived from the establishment or operation of the clinic and remaining after expenditure for the purposes permitted in such paragraph (d) is or will be applied solely for the purposes authorized in section 33(1)(f) of the Trade Unions Ordinance (Cap 332) and so applied in such a manner that no part thereof shall be paid to or for the benefit of any person employed in such clinic. (Amended 80 of 1997 s. 102) (4) Every person registered in respect of a clinic shall display the current certificate of registration issued in respect of the clinic in a conspicuous place at the clinic. (Replaced 58 of 1981 s. 2) Cap 343 s 6 Period of registration (1) Subject to the provisions of section 10, a registration shall, as indicated by the Registrar on the certificate of registration, be valid- (a) until the end of the year in which it is made, and any person registered in respect of a clinic who desires to continue to be so registered for any subsequent year shall make application for re-registration during the first week of the month of November, or, for good reason shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar, at such later date as the Registrar may allow; or (Amended 37 of 1966 s. 3) (b) for such months in any one year and such extended periods thereof, if any, as the Registrar in his absolute discretion may allow.(2) The Registrar may, in his absolute discretion- (a) when granting re-registration under subsection (1)(a); or (b) when extending the period of validity under subsection (1)(b),impose conditions or amend conditions already imposed. Cap 343 s 7 Duty to ensure proper supervision Every person registered in respect of a clinic shall appoint and maintain a registered medical practitioner who shall be responsible for the medical management of the clinic in relation to which he has been appointed. |