Hong Kong Regulations

PROBATION OF OFFENDERS RULES - RULE 38

Appointment of medical officers and their general duties

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 17 of 1999 s. 3 Medical care of
probationers

The Chief Executive shall appoint such medical officers as he may consider
necessary to visit approved institutions, whose duties shall include- (17 of
1999 s. 3)

   (a)  the examination of every probationer as soon as practicable after
        admission to an approved institution;

   (b)  recording in each probationer's case record an opinion as to the
        physical or mental health of the probationer on admission to the
        institution and from time to time thereafter as circumstances may
        require;

   (c)  the medical care of and responsibility for the treatment when sick of
        any probationer in an approved institution, including the power to
        cause the removal of any probationer in need of special treatment to a
        suitable hospital or institution;

   (d)  the periodic inspection of approved institutions from the hygienic
        point of view;

   (e)  advice as to dietary and general hygiene;

   (f)  the keeping of medical records in which shall be entered particulars
        of every medical examination carried out under this rule and case
        notes relating to any probationer receiving medical attention.