Hong Kong Regulations

MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGISTS (REGISTRATION AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 41

Opportunity for mitigation

(1) At any meeting of the Board at which the Board makes in respect of a
respondent an order or a decision to decline his application for registration,
before the order or decision is made, an opportunity shall be given to the
respondent or his counsel or solicitor to make a statement in mitigation and
to adduce evidence as to the circumstances leading to the commission of the
offence or the conduct complained of and as to the character and antecedents
of the respondent.

(2) At any meeting referred to in subregulation (1), before the order or
decision of the Board is made-

   (a)  the Secretary or any other person presenting the case against the
        respondent may, if the respondent has been the subject of a previous
        order, produce to the Board the records of the meeting at which that
        order was made; and

   (b)  the respondent, in person or by his counsel or solicitor, may make a
        statement by way of mitigation and adduce evidence as to the
        circumstances leading to the previous order. (Enacted 1990)