Hong Kong Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS (REGISTRATION AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 42

Evidence

(1) Evidence may be taken by the Board by oral statement on oath or by written
deposition or statement.

(2) A summons under section 23(1)(b) of the Ordinance to any person requiring
him to attend an inquiry to give evidence or produce any document or other
thing in his possession shall be in accordance with Form 5 in Schedule 2.

(3) Every witness shall be examined by the party producing him and may then be
cross-examined by the other party and may be re-examined by the party
producing the witness only upon matters arising out of the cross-examination.

(4) The Board may decline to admit the evidence of any deponent to a document
who is not present for, or who declines to submit to, cross-examination.

(5) The Chairman of the Board, and members of the Board through the
Chairman of the Board, may put such questions to the parties or to any witness
as they may think desirable, and the other parties may then re-examine such
party or witness on matters arising out of such questioning. (Enacted 1990)