Hong Kong Regulations

DENTISTS (REGISTRATION AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 31

Address in mitigation

(1) At any meeting of the Council at which sentence on a defendant is to be
decided by the Council, before the Council shall decide such sentence an
opportunity shall be given to the defendant, or his solicitor or counsel, to
address the Council by way of mitigation and to adduce evidence as to the
circumstances leading to the offence and as to the character and antecedents
of the defendant.

(1A) At any such meeting-

   (a)  the Secretary or other person presenting the case to the Council may
        produce to the Council the records of any meeting of the Council at
        which an order was made against the defendant pursuant to section 18
        of the Ordinance; and

   (b)  the defendant, in person or by his solicitor or counsel, may address
        the Council by way of mitigation and may adduce evidence as to the
        circumstances leading to any such previous order. (L.N. 177 of 1977)

(2) The Council shall then consider and determine the sentence on the
defendant and the Chairman shall announce the decision of the Council in such
terms as the Council may approve.