### Chiropractors Registration Ordinance 《脊醫註冊條例》

22. Appeal to Court of Appeal
(1) Any person who is aggrieved by any decision or order made in respect of him under section 11(1) or 18 may appeal to the Court of Appeal.
(2) The Court of Appeal may affirm, reverse or vary the decision or order appealed against.
(3) Where a person appeals against a decision of an inquiry committee, the Court of Appeal shall consider the reasons of the inquiry committee and submissions upon the findings of fact and law of the inquiry committee made on behalf of the parties to the inquiry and may call for the original record of the evidence taken and a record of any advice tendered by the Legal Adviser to the inquiry committee under section 7(3) and any document put in evidence before the inquiry committee.
(4) The Court of Appeal may, upon special grounds being shown, consider any additional evidence not adduced before the inquiry committee.
(5) The practice in relation to any appeal shall be subject to any rules of court made under the High Court Ordinance (Cap. 4). (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(6) The Court of Appeal shall not have power to hear any appeal against a decision made under section 11(1) or against an order made under section 18 unless notice of such appeal is given within 3 months of the decision or of the service of order under section 20.
(7) In deciding any appeal under this section the Court of Appeal may make such order for the payment of costs as it considers reasonable.

### Chiropractors Registration Ordinance 《脊醫註冊條例》

23. Use of title
(1) A person whose name does not appear in the register shall not be entitled to describe himself as a “registered chiropractor”.
(2) The Council may apply to a judge for an order restraining any person whose name is not in the register from describing himself as a “registered chiropractor”.
(3) A person carrying on the business of chiropractic, otherwise than as part of a multidisciplinary practice, may use the description of “registered chiropractor” if, but only if, at each place where such business is carried on, that business is conducted under the supervision of a registered chiropractor who does not at the same time act in a similar capacity for any other person.
(4) A person carrying on the business of chiropractic as part of a multidisciplinary practice may use the description of “registered chiropractor” if, but only if, the business, so far as it relates to chiropractic, is under the full time management and control of a registered chiropractor who does not at the same time act in a similar capacity for any other person.
(5) The Council may apply to a judge for an order—
(a) restraining any person from using the description of “registered chiropractor” if the person has not complied with subsection (3) or (4); or
(b) restraining any person whose name is not entered in the register from carrying on a chiropractic practice in such manner as may reasonably cause any other person to believe that he is a registered chiropractor.

### Chiropractors Registration Ordinance 《脊醫註冊條例》

24. Offences and penalties
Any person who—
(a) having been summoned by an inquiry committee to attend as a witness or to produce a document or other thing under section 19 without reasonable excuse refuses or fails to do so;
(b) attends as a witness before an inquiry committee and, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to answer any question put to him by the inquiry committee;
(c) fraudulently obtains registration as a registered chiropractor for himself or any other person;
(d) obtains registration as a registered chiropractor for himself or any other person by means of any misleading, false or fraudulent representation or statement, either orally or in writing;
(e) makes or causes to be made any falsification in the register;
(f) impersonates or falsely represents himself as being the person referred to in any certificate or document presented to the Council or an inquiry committee in connection with its functions under this Ordinance;
(g) not having his name entered in the register, takes or uses any name, initials, title, addition or description falsely implying that his name is entered in the register;
(h) not having his name entered in the register, practises chiropractic;
(i) not being the holder of a practising certificate then in force, practises chiropractic;
(j) not having his name entered in the register, uses or knowingly permits the use in connection with his business or profession of—
(i) the description “registered chiropractor”; or
(ii) initials or abbreviations or words intended to cause, or which may reasonably cause, any person to believe that the person using them is a registered chiropractor; or
(k) not having his name entered in the register, advertises or represents himself as a registered chiropractor or knowingly permits himself to be so advertised or represented,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2022)

25. Certificate as evidence
(1) A certificate, purporting to be signed by the Secretary, that the name of a person has or has not been entered in or has been removed or ordered to be removed from the register shall for all purposes, without further proof, be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.
(2) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Secretary, that at a date specified in the certificate a person is not or was not the holder of a practising certificate then in force shall for all purposes, without further proof, be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

### Chiropractors Registration Ordinance 《脊醫註冊條例》

26. Protection of members of Council and committees
(1) No member or employee of the Council or of any committee of the Council shall be personally liable for any act done or default made—
(a) by the Council; or
(b) by any committee of the Council,
acting in good faith in the exercise or purported exercise of the powers conferred on the Council by, or by virtue of, this Ordinance.
(2) The protection hereby conferred on members and employees of the Council or of a committee in respect of any act or default shall not in any way affect any liability of the Council for that act or default.

27. Regulations
The Chief Executive in Council may by regulation provide for— (Amended 37 of 2000 s. 3)
(a) the fees to be paid in connection with matters within the scope of this Ordinance;
(b) anything that is to be or may be prescribed;
(c) generally carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.

### Crimes (Torture) Ordinance 《刑事罪行(酷刑)條例》

1. Short title
(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Crimes (Torture) Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2014)

2. Interpretation
(1) In this Ordinance—
country (國家) includes part of a country;
office (職位) includes appointment (委任);
public official (公務人員) includes any person holding in Hong Kong an office described in the Schedule;
the Torture Convention (酷刑公約) means the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1984.
(Amended L.N. 206 of 1997)(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance a person is to be regarded as having acted in an official capacity if at the time the person acts (whether acting in Hong Kong or elsewhere) that capacity is related either to the Government of, or any public authority in, Hong Kong or to the government of, or any other authority in, a country or territory outside Hong Kong being an authority which is similar or analogous to a public authority in Hong Kong.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that section 5 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1) is not to be construed as extending the definition of public official