Hong Kong Ordinances

HOUSING MANAGERS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 23

Disciplinary order of inquiry committee

(Past version on 26/11/1999).

(1) Where an inquiry committee finds that a registered professional 
housing manager committed a disciplinary offence, on confirmation by a
review committee of the finding, or on the variation of the finding or any
proposed order based on the recommendation of the review committee, the
inquiry committee may make any one or more of the following orders-

   (a)  order the Registrar to remove the name of the registered 
        professional housing manager from the register;

   (b)  order the Registrar to remove the name of the registered 
        professional housing manager from the register for such period as the
        inquiry committee may think fit;

   (c)  reprimand the registered professional housing manager in writing and
        order the Registrar to record the reprimand on the register;

   (d)  order that an order made under this section be suspended, subject to
        such conditions as the inquiry committee may think fit, for a period
        not exceeding 2 years;

   (e)  order that the Board shall not accept an application from the
        registered professional housing manager for registration as a
        registered  professional housing manager either for a fixed period or
        until the registered professional housing manager satisfies the Board
        that he should be registered;

   (f)  order that the Chairman admonish the registered professional 
        housing manager orally;

   (g)  order the registered professional housing manager to pay all or part
        of the costs of any of the Registrar, the Board or the inquiry 
        committee arising from the case if, but only if, the inquiry committee
        is satisfied that in all the circumstances of the case it would be
        unjust and inequitable not to do so.

(2) Costs payable by virtue of an order under subsection (1)(g) shall be
recoverable as a civil debt.

(3) The inquiry committee may-

   (a)  assess the amount of any costs to be payable by virtue of an order
        under subsection (1)(g); or

   (b)  order that those costs be taxed on the basis of any one of the scale
        of costs specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to Order 62 of the Rules of
        the District Court (Cap 336 sub. leg. H), (Amended 25 of 2008 s. 20)
        and the Schedules to Order 62 of the Rules of the High Court (Cap 4
        sub. leg. A) shall with all necessary modifications, apply to the
        taxation and recovery of costs.

(4) For the purposes of this Ordinance (including sections 25 and 28), any
assessment or order under subsection (3) shall be deemed to be part of the
order under subsection (1)(g) to which it relates.

(5) The inquiry committee shall give an adequate statement of reasons for any
assessment or order made under this section.