Hong Kong Ordinances

HOSPITALS, NURSING HOMES AND MATERNITY HOMES REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 6

Regulations

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 37 of 2000 s. 3

(1) The Director may by regulation provide for-

   (a)  records to be kept of patients received into a hospital or
        maternity home, and, in the case of a maternity home, of any
        miscarriages or still-births occurring in the home, and of the
        children born therein and of the children so born who are removed from
        the home otherwise than to the custody or care of any parent, guardian
        or relative; (Amended 17 of 1966 s. 3)

   (b)  notification to be given of any death occurring in a hospital or
        maternity home. (Amended 17 of 1966 s. 3; 84 of 1992 s. 3)

   (c)  (Repealed 84 of 1992 s. 3)

(2) The Chief Executive in Council may by regulation provide- (Amended 37 of
2000 s. 3)

   (a)  that the contravention of any regulation under subsection (1) or a
        specified provision of any such regulation, is an offence;

   (b)  a penalty, not exceeding $1000, for any such offence; and

   (c)  if such offence is a continuing offence, an additional penalty not
        exceeding $50 for each day on which the offence has continued. (Added
        84 of 1992 s. 3) [cf. 1927 c. 38 s. 4 U.K.]