Hong Kong Ordinances

CHINESE MEDICINE ORDINANCE - SECT 56

Powers of Practitioners Board to order removal of names from Register

(1) The Practitioners Board may order the removal from the Register the name
of any person who-

   (a)  has requested in writing that his name be removed;

   (b)  is deceased;

   (c)  by reason of health, in its opinion, is unfit to practise Chinese
        medicine;

   (d)  being a person required to be the holder of a practising  certificate
        under section 76, has not obtained such a certificate for a period
        exceeding 6 months since he was first registered under this Ordinance
        or since the expiry of a practising certificate issued to him under
        section 76;

   (e)  is subject of an order made under section 98(3)(a) or (b).

(2) The Practitioners Board may also order the removal from the Register the
name of any person who fails to acknowledge within 4 months after the date of
despatch the receipt of a registered letter addressed to him at his address as
recorded in the Register, or the last address supplied by him to the
Registrar.

(3) For the purpose of subsection (1)(c), the Practitioners Board may make
recommendations to the Council to set up a committee under section 39 to
assess the fitness or otherwise of any registered Chinese 
medicine practitioner before an order is made pursuant to that subsection.