### Medical Registration Ordinance 《醫生註冊條例》

31. Chinese medicine
(1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the right of any Chinese medicine practitioner registered or listed under the Chinese Medicine Ordinance (Cap. 549), not being a person taking or using any name, title, addition or description calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery under this Ordinance, to practise Chinese medicine in accordance with the provisions of that Ordinance.
(2) For the purposes of this section—
(a) the taking or using in Chinese by any person of the name, title, addition or description of “西醫”, “醫生”, “醫師”, “醫士”, “醫學士”, “醫學博士”, “男醫”, “女醫”, “醫科”, “醫家”, “醫寓”, “醫院”, “醫務院”, “醫所”, “醫務所”, “醫療所”, “診療所”, “療病院”, and the taking or using of any words or characters implying specialization if preceded by or used in combination with words or characters other than “中” or “中醫” shall be deemed to be the taking or using of a name, title, addition or description calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery under this Ordinance and that he is registered under this Ordinance;
(b) the taking or using in Chinese by a Chinese medicine practitioner registered or listed under the Chinese Medicine Ordinance (Cap. 549) of the name, title, addition or description of “醫生”, “醫師”, “醫士”, “醫學士”, “醫學博士”, “男醫”, “女醫”, “醫科”, “醫家”, “醫寓”, “醫院”, “醫務院”, “醫所”, “醫務所”, “醫療所”, “診療所”, “療病院” or any words or characters implying specialization, when preceded by or used in combination with the character “中” or characters “中醫”, shall not be deemed to be the taking or using of a name, title, addition or description calculated to induce anyone to believe that he is qualified to practise medicine or surgery under this Ordinance or that he is registered under this Ordinance.
(Replaced 47 of 1999 s. 165)

### Medical Registration Ordinance 《醫生註冊條例》

32. Treatment of diseases of the eye
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 31 and subject to subsection (1A), no person unless he is a registered medical practitioner or is provisionally registered shall hold himself out as being qualified, competent or willing to undertake the treatment of diseases of the human eye or the prescription of remedies therefor, or the giving of advice in connexion with the treatment thereof. (Amended 47 of 1999 s. 166)
(1A) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prohibit—
(a) a person who is not a registered medical practitioner from holding himself out as being qualified, competent or willing to test refraction, visual acuity and colour vision, or to make or provide spectacles or other optical appliances for the remedy of defects of vision;
(b) a Chinese medicine practitioner registered or listed under the Chinese Medicine Ordinance (Cap. 549) or a person who continues to practise Chinese medicine provisionally by virtue of section 90(7) of that Ordinance from undertaking the treatment of diseases of the human eye or the prescription of remedies for such treatment, or the giving of advice in connection with such treatment in accordance with the provisions of that Ordinance. (Added 47 of 1999 s. 166)
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 3 years. (Amended 68 of 1986 s. 6; 87 of 1995 s. 16)
(Added 19 of 1958 s. 3)

### Admission and Registration Rules 《認許及註冊規則》

1. Citation
These rules may be cited as the Admission and Registration Rules.

2. Interpretation
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires—
certificate (證書、證明書) includes a copy certificate and a duplicate certificate;
prescribed fee (訂明費用) means the fee prescribed by rules made under section 72 of the Ordinance;
trainee solicitor contract (實習律師合約) includes an original trainee solicitor contract, new trainee solicitor contract and further trainee solicitor contract. (L.N. 27 of 1992)
(L.N. 198 of 1981)

### Admission and Registration Rules 《認許及註冊規則》

3. Application for certificate of eligibility for admission as solicitor on the basis of compliance with section 4
(1) A person seeking to be admitted as a solicitor on the basis of compliance with section 4(1)(a) or (b) of the Ordinance shall apply to the Society for the issue of a certificate in accordance with subrule (4) or (5) and shall pay to the Society the prescribed fee. 
(2) An application made under subrule (1) shall be—
(a) in the case of a person seeking admission on the basis of compliance with section 4(1)(a) of the Ordinance and of rule 20 of the Trainee Solicitors Rules (Cap. 159 sub. leg. J)—
(i) in accordance with Form 1B in the Schedule; and 
(ii)  accompanied by such documents as the Society may reasonably require; 
(b) in the case of a person seeking admission on the basis of compliance with section 4(1)(a) of the Ordinance and not of rule 20 of the Trainee Solicitors Rules (Cap. 159 sub. leg. J)—
(i) in accordance with Form 4 in the Schedule; and 
(ii) accompanied by such documents as the Society may reasonably require; and 
(c) in the case of a person seeking admission on the basis of compliance with section 4(1)(b) of the Ordinance—
(i) in accordance with Form 1C in the Schedule; and 
(ii) accompanied by an affidavit of identity in accordance with Form 5 in the Schedule completed by an officer of the Court and such other documents as the Society may reasonably require. 
(3) A trainee solicitor shall apply for a certificate in accordance with subrule (1) within 12 months after the completion of his most recent trainee solicitor contract, or within a further period that the Council may in exceptional circumstances allow. 
(4) The Society, if it is satisfied that a person making an application under subrule (1) is eligible for admission as a solicitor on the basis of compliance with section 4(1)(a) of the Ordinance and has satisfied the requirements of section 4(1A) of the Ordinance, shall issue to him a certificate in accordance with Form 2 in the Schedule. 
(5) The Society, if it is satisfied that a person making an application under subrule (1) is eligible for admission as a solicitor on the basis of compliance with section 4(1)(b) of the Ordinance and has satisfied the requirements of section 4(1A) of the Ordinance, shall issue to him a certificate in accordance with Form 3 in the Schedule. 
(L.N. 165 of 1994; L.N. 466 of 1994)