### Dentists Registration Ordinance 《牙醫註冊條例》

15. Correction of General Register or Specialist Register
(1) The Registrar shall from time to time insert in the General Register any alteration or addition which may come to his knowledge in the name, registered addresses or qualifications of any person registered.
(1A) The Registrar shall from time to time insert in the Specialist Register any alteration or addition which may come to his knowledge in the name, registered addresses or qualifications of any registered dentist whose name is included in the Register. (Added 11 of 2006 s. 14)
(2) The Registrar shall make such amendments to the General Register or Specialist Register as are made necessary by any decision of the Council.
(3) The Council may order the removal from the General Register of the name of any person who— (Amended 11 of 2006 s. 14)
(a) is deceased; or
(b) is not practising dentistry in Hong Kong; or (Amended 79 of 1984 s. 7) 
(ba) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised dentistry in Hong Kong for a period exceeding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate; or (Added 49 of 1977 s. 7)
(c)  has not supplied to the Registrar an address in Hong Kong at which all notices from the Council may be served on him: (Amended 79 of 1984 s. 7)
Provided that any person failing to acknowledge within 12 months of the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or telegram addressed to him at the last address supplied by him to the Registrar shall be deemed not to have supplied the Registrar with an address under this paragraph. 
(Amended 11 of 2006 s. 14)

### Dentists Registration Ordinance 《牙醫註冊條例》

15A. Removal of names from Specialist Register
(1) If—
(a) the Council orders a removal of the name of a registered dentist from the General Register under section 15(3) or 18(1); and
(b) the dentist’s name is also included in the Specialist Register,
the Registrar shall, at the same time when he removes the dentist’s name from the General Register, also remove the dentist’s name from the Specialist Register.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Council may order that the name of a registered dentist be removed from the Specialist Register, or be removed from the Register for such period or until the occurrence of such event as the Council specifies.
(3) In deciding whether or not to order the removal of the registered dentist’s name from the Specialist Register, the Council shall have regard to—
(a) the Education and Accreditation Committee’s recommendation under section 12F(1)(c) and the reasons for it;
(b) if the dentist has requested the Committee to review that recommendation under section 12F(5), the result of the review and the reasons for it; and
(c) if the dentist has submitted representations under section 12F(7), those representations.
(Added 11 of 2006 s. 15)

15B. Service of notice
A notice required to be given to a registered dentist under sections 12B(5)(b) and (11) and 12F(4) and (6) shall be given by sending it by registered post addressed to the dentist at his registered address.
(Added 11 of 2006 s. 15)

16. Inspection of premises used for the practice of dentistry
(1) It shall be lawful for any public officer thereunto authorized by the Council to enter and inspect any premises used or proposed to be used for the practice of dentistry. Such officer shall produce, on demand, a written authority, signed by the Chairman or the Secretary authorizing such entry and inspection. (Amended 4 of 1988 s. 6; L.N. 126 of 1995) 
(2) Any person wilfully obstructing or resisting an officer duly authorized by the Council in the inspection of premises used or proposed to be used for the practice of dentistry commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (Amended 68 of 1986 s. 13; E.R. 7 of 2020)

17. Premises unsuitable for the practice of dentistry
No registered dentist shall practise dentistry in premises or under conditions which are unsuitable for such practice.

### Dentists Registration Ordinance 《牙醫註冊條例》

19. Powers of Council with regard to obtaining evidence and the conduct of proceedings
(1) For the purposes of an inquiry under section 9 or 18, the Council shall have the following powers—
(a) to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath; 
(b) to summon any person to attend the inquiry to give evidence or produce any document or other thing in his possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession, subject to all just exceptions; 
(c) to admit or exclude the public or any member of the public from the inquiry; 
(d) to admit or exclude the press from the inquiry; 
(e) to award any person summoned to attend the inquiry such sum or sums as in the opinion of the Council may have been reasonably expended by him by reason of his attendance. 
(2) Summonses to witnesses may be in the prescribed form and shall be signed by the Chairman.

20. Penalty for failure to give evidence
Any person who being summoned to attend as a witness or produce a book, document or any other thing at any inquiry under section 9 or 18 refuses or neglects to do so or to answer any question put to him by or with the concurrence of the Council commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months: (Amended 68 of 1986 s. 14; 80 of 1997 s. 91) 
Provided that no person shall be bound to incriminate himself and every witness shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before the Council, be entitled to the same privileges to which he would be entitled if giving evidence before a court of justice.

21. Appearance of counsel, etc.
The complainant in any inquiry under section 9 or 18 and the person whose conduct is the subject of such inquiry shall be entitled to be represented by counsel or a solicitor throughout the inquiry.