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[接上页] (Added 7 of 1996 s. 14) Cap 161 s 20 Alterations to registers (1) The Registrar may on payment of the prescribed fee amend any entry in the General Register or the Specialist 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 General Register or the Specialist Register as are made necessary by any decision of the Council. (Amended 7 of 1996 s. 15) Cap 161 s 20A Medical practitioner not to practise without practising certificate Remarks: Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 37 of 2000 s. 3 (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) On application made to the Registrar for the purpose of the issue of a practising certificate by a registered medical practitioner, and subject to- (a) the payment of the prescribed fee for the issue of a practising certificate; and (b) the submission of evidence that the registered medical practitioner has not been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable with imprisonment, the Registrar shall issue to the registered medical practitioner 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. (Replaced 7 of 1996 s. 16) (3) Where a practising certificate is issued pursuant to an application made during the course of a year in respect of that year, the certificate shall, subject to subsections (4A), (4B) and (5), be in force from the time of its issue until the end of that year. (Amended 7 of 1996 s. 16) (4) Where a practising certificate is issued pursuant to an application made during the course of a year in respect of the following year, the certificate shall, subject to subsections (4A), (4B) and (5), be in force for a period of 12 months commencing on 1 January in that following year. (Amended 7 of 1996 s. 16) (4A) Where a practising certificate for limited registration is issued or renewed under section 14A, the certificate shall, subject to subsection (5), be in force for the period specified in the certificate. (Added 38 of 1992 s. 7) (4B) Where a practising certificate is issued to a person registered under section 14B, the certificate shall, subject to subsection (5), be in force for the period specified in the certificate. (Added 7 of 1996 s. 16) (5) If at any time during the currency of a practising certificate issued under this section, the holder of the certificate ceases to be registered under this Ordinance, the certificate shall thereupon be deemed to be cancelled. (Amended 34 of 1995 s. 14) (6) Any person who is required under this section to be the holder of a practising certificate under this section shall be deemed to have obtained the certificate when he has duly applied to the Registrar and paid the prescribed fee for the issue of the practising certificate. (7) This section applies to any person registered under section 14, 14A or 14B, but does not apply to- (a) any person provisionally registered under section 12; (b) any person deemed to be registered as a medical practitioner by virtue of section 29(a) or (b); (c) any person in respect of whom the Chief Executive has given consent under section 30; (Amended 37 of 2000 s. 3) (d) any person to whom section 31 relates; or (e) any qualified person in so far as he renders medical or surgical treatment to a person in an emergency. (Replaced 7 of 1996 s. 16) (8) A person who is required under this section to be the holder of a practising certificate shall not be entitled to recover any fees, costs or other remuneration unless he was, at the time when the cause of action arose, the holder of a valid practising certificate. (Added 70 of 1975 s. 7. Amended 38 of 1992 s. 7) Cap 161 s 20B Recovery of practising fees (1) If any registered medical practitioner contravenes subsection (1) of section 20A, the amount of the prescribed fee payable by him under subsection (2) of that section shall be recoverable as a civil debt by complaint made in the name of the Registrar to a magistrate. (2) A summons issued in relation to the recovery of the prescribed fee for the issue of a practising certificate under this section may, notwithstanding section 8(2) of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap 227), be served by sending it by post to the medical practitioner concerned at his last known address; and a certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Registrar shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence of service of the summons. (3) If in any proceedings under this section- (a) the medical practitioner concerned does not appear before a magistrate at the time and place specified in the summons; and |