### Nurses Registration Ordinance 《護士註冊條例》

4AA. Transaction of business by circulation of papers
(1) The Council may transact its business by circulation of a paper to all members without a meeting.
(2) Subject to subsection (4), a written resolution that is approved by a majority of the members is as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Council by the votes of the members so approving.
(3) A member may, by giving a notice in writing to the chairman within such period as may be specified in the paper being circulated, request the chairman to refer any item of business in the paper to the next meeting of the Council for determination. (Amended E.R. 7 of 2020)
(4) Any approval under subsection (2) in respect of an item of business specified in the notice is void.
(Added 9 of 2002 s. 4)

5. Register of nurses
(1) The Council shall cause a register to be kept which shall contain such particulars as may from time to time be prescribed. (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)
(2) The register shall be divided into such number of parts as may be prescribed.
(3) Where a person satisfies the conditions of admission to more than one part of the register, his name may be included in each such part.
(4) A certificate purporting to be under the seal of the Council and signed by the chairman or secretary of the Council stating that a person is or was at any date or is not or was not at any date duly registered shall be evidence in all courts of law of the fact stated in such certificate until the contrary is proved. (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)
(5) The register of nurses kept in accordance with the provisions of the Nurses Registration Ordinance 1931*, shall be deemed to be the register required to be maintained, and to have been maintained, in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance; and every nurse whose name appears therein at the commencement# of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been registered as a nurse in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.

Editorial Note:

* See Cap. 164, 1950 Ed.  # Commencement date: 7 July 1961. 

### Nurses Registration Ordinance 《護士註冊條例》

6. Information with respect to nurses
(1) The register or a copy thereof shall be kept at the offices of the Council and shall be open to inspection by any person free of charge during usual business hours upon application being made in writing addressed to the secretary. (Amended 5 of 1988 s. 4)
(2) The Council shall cause to be published in the Gazette in relation to successive periods, in such manner as the Council may think fit and at intervals of not more than 12 months, lists of all persons whose names have been entered in, removed from or restored to the register during these periods.
(Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)

7. Correction of the register
(1) The secretary may from time to time amend the register as to the address or other relevant particulars relating to any nurse whose name appears therein upon his being satisfied that such amendment is necessary for the purpose of preserving the accuracy of the register. 
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 21, the secretary shall add to or delete from the register the name of any nurse whose name the Council directs shall be added thereto or deleted therefrom, as the case may be. (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)
(3) Without prejudice to anything contained in Part V, the Council may direct that the name of any nurse be removed from the register who— (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)
(a) requests in writing addressed to the secretary that his name be so removed; 
(b) dies;
(c) has left Hong Kong without giving to the secretary notice of intention to return; 
(d) has not kept the secretary supplied with an address in Hong Kong at which notices from the Council may be served upon him: (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)
Provided that—
(i) this paragraph shall not apply to any registered nurse in the service of the Government; and
(ii) any nurse who fails to acknowledge within 12 months after the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or telegram addressed to him at his last address as recorded in the register shall be deemed not to have kept the secretary supplied with an address under this paragraph; (Amended 67 of 1985 s. 16)

(e) has failed to obtain a practising certificate issued under section 10A within 6 months of his registration under section 9 or of the expiry of such a certificate. (Added 34 of 1995 s. 26)

### Nurses Registration Ordinance 《護士註冊條例》

8. Qualification for registration
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, no person shall be qualified to be registered under this Ordinance unless he has satisfied the Council that— (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)
(a) he has attained the minimum age of 21 years; 
(b) he is of good character, 
and in addition thereto—
(c) he has completed such training as may be prescribed and has passed such examinations as may be required by the Council; or 
(d)-(f) (Repealed 68 of 1995 s. 2) (g) he possesses a valid certificate to practise nursing issued by such certifying body as may be recognized by the Council from time to time as constituting sufficient evidence of his competency to practise nursing. (Amended 38 of 1970 s. 5; 68 of 1995 s. 2) 
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1), the Council may require any applicant for registration in any part of the register to prove his competency in nursing by examination conducted by examiners appointed by the Council and, if required, to undergo such further training as the Council may specify.
(Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)

8A. Review of results of examinations under section 8
(1) A person who is aggrieved by the result of an examination under section 8 may request the Council to review the result.
(2) A request for review under subsection (1)—
(a) shall be in writing;
(b) shall state the grounds relied on; and
(c) shall be made within 1 week after the announcement of the examination result by the Council.
(3) On receipt of a request accompanied by a prescribed fee, the Council shall review the relevant examination result as soon as practicable.
(4) The Council shall notify the person who has requested the review of the result of the review within 1 month after the completion of the review by a written notice served on the person personally or sent to the person by registered post.
(Added 9 of 2002 s. 4)