Hong Kong Regulations

PHYSIOTHERAPISTS (REGISTRATION AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE) REGULATION - SECT 41

Opportunity for mitigation

(1) At any meeting of the Board at which the Board proposes to make 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 subsection (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 1996)