Hong Kong Regulations

ENROLLED NURSES (ENROLMENT AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4

Application for enrolment

(Past version on 07/05/1999).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Every application for enrolment as an enrolled nurse shall be submitted in
writing to the secretary and shall- (L.N. 145 of 1972)

   (a)  contain the following particulars-

        (i)    name;

        (ii)   age;

        (iii)  address;

        (iv)   whether married or single;

        (v)    hospital or training school where trained;

        (vi)   particulars of training;

        (vii)  date of previous application to the Council, if any; and (L.N.
               117 of 1999)

        (viii) the part or parts of the roll in respect of which the
               application for enrolment is submitted; and

   (b)  be accompanied by-

        (i)    a testimonial as to character, preferably by a resident of
               standing in Hong Kong; (67 of 1985 s. 16)

        (ii)   a certificate or diploma issued by a training school;

        (iii)  passport or identification certificate;

        (iv)   two unmounted copies of a photograph of the applicant taken not
               more than two years before the date of application for
               enrolment; and

        (v)    the certificate of a registered medical practitioner, within
               the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance ( Cap 161),
               certifying that the applicant is not suffering from any
               scheduled infectious disease, within the meaning of the
               Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance ( Cap  599), such
               as to render him unfit, in such practitioner's opinion, to
               attend the sick. (14 of 2008 s. 18)

(2) Payment of the appropriate fee prescribed in the Second Schedule shall be
a condition precedent to the enrolment of any name in the roll.