Hong Kong Regulations

CHINESE MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS (REGISTRATION) REGULATION - SECT 9

Consolidation of subject matters and amendment of notice of inquiry

(1) Where an inquiry under Part IV is to be held in respect of an alleged
conviction or finding of professional misconduct of an applicant, if the
Board secretary receives any further information showing that the applicant
may have been convicted of another offence or found guilty of other misconduct
in a professional aspect that has not been brought before the Board, he shall
refer it to the Disciplinary Committee as soon as practicable.

(2) Upon the recommendation of Disciplinary Committee to hold an inquiry into
any other alleged conviction or finding of the same applicant, the
Board chairman may direct that-

   (a)  any such other alleged conviction or finding be inquired into at the
        same inquiry against the applicant, and where the Board chairman makes
        that direction, evidence relating to the other alleged conviction or
        finding may be introduced at the inquiry; and

   (b)  the notice of inquiry be amended accordingly and served on the
        applicant within such period of time as may be specified in the
        direction.

(3) Where before the opening of an inquiry and in the course of an inquiry, it
appears to the Board chairman that the notice of inquiry is defective, the
Board chairman may give such directions for its amendment as he thinks
necessary to remedy the defect unless, having regard to the merits of the
case, he thinks that to make the required amendment will be unjust to the
applicant.

(4) The Board secretary shall, as soon as it is practicable after an amendment
of a notice of inquiry has been made under subsection (3), give notice of the
amendment to the applicant.