### Landscape Architects Registration Ordinance 《園境師註冊條例》

26. Service of orders of inquiry committee
(1) The Registrar shall serve a copy of any order made under section 23(1), together with a copy of the inquiry committee’s reasons, or serve notice that the inquiry committee has not found that the registered landscape architect concerned committed a disciplinary offence, upon the registered landscape architect concerned, either personally or by registered post addressed to his registered address immediately when the Registrar receives—
(a) the report of the review committee, unless the inquiry committee is to reconsider its decision; or
(b) any order of the inquiry committee reviewed under section 25(4)(d).
(2) The Registrar shall not remove the name of the registered landscape architect from the register before the expiry of a period of 3 months after the date of service of the order under subsection (1) or, in the case of an appeal made to the Court of Appeal against the order under section 28, before the appeal is finally determined. (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 117)
(3) Any person whose name has been removed from the register under this Ordinance may apply to the Board for the restoration of his name to the register, and the Board may, after such inquiry and subject to such conditions as it may consider desirable, allow or refuse the application.
(4) If the Board allows an application under subsection (3), it shall order the Registrar to restore the name of the applicant to the register on payment by the applicant of the prescribed fee.

27. Publication of disciplinary orders
(1) After the expiry of the time within which an appeal may be made to the Court of Appeal under section 28 against an order of an inquiry committee made under section 23(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) or, if such an appeal has been made, after the appeal is finally determined, the Board— (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 118)
(a) shall publish a copy of the order or, if the order is varied on appeal, the order as so varied in at least one English and one Chinese language newspaper circulating daily in Hong Kong; and
(b) may publish the order or, if the order is varied on appeal, the order as so varied in any other publication or manner as the Board thinks fit. (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 118)
(2) Where an order is published under subsection (1), the Board—
(a) shall publish with such order sufficient particulars to acquaint the public with the nature of the matter to which the order relates; and
(b) may publish with such order an account of the proceedings of the inquiry committee.
(3) No action in damages for defamation shall lie against any person as a result of publishing an order and other particulars required or permitted under this section.

### Landscape Architects Registration Ordinance 《園境師註冊條例》

28. Appeal to Court of Appeal
(1) Any person who is aggrieved by any decision or order made in respect of him under section 14(1), 15(5) or 23(1) may appeal to the Court of Appeal. (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 119)
(2) The Court of Appeal may affirm, reverse or vary the decision or order appealed against. (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 119)
(3) Where a person appeals against an order of any 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 any document put in evidence before the inquiry committee. (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 119)
(4) The Court of Appeal may, upon special grounds being shown, consider any additional evidence not adduced before the inquiry committee.
(5) (Repealed 10 of 2005 s. 114)(6) The practice in relation to any appeal shall be subject to any rules of court made under the High Court Ordinance (Cap. 4). (Amended 57 of 1999 s. 3)
(7) The Court of Appeal shall not have power to hear any appeal against a decision or order made under section 14(1), 15(5) or 23(1) unless—
(a) in the case of a decision made under section 14(1) or 15(5), notice of such appeal is given within 3 months after the applicant is notified in writing of the decision;
(b) in the case of an order made under section 23(1), notice of such appeal is given within 3 months of the service of the order under section 26.
(8) In deciding any appeal under this section the Court of Appeal may make such order for the payment of costs as it considers reasonable.

### Landscape Architects Registration Ordinance 《園境師註冊條例》

29. Use of title
(1) A person whose name does not appear on the register shall not be entitled to describe himself as “landscape architect” or “registered landscape architect” or to use the initials “R.L.A.” after his name.
(2) Subject to subsection (4), the Board may apply to a judge for an order restraining any person whose name is not on the register from describing himself as “landscape architect” or “registered landscape architect” or using the initials “R.L.A.”.
(3) A person whose name is not on the register may describe himself as a landscape architect if he describes himself by reference to a membership of any body or institute of landscape architects formed outside Hong Kong which description does not imply that he has the right to practise landscape architecture in Hong Kong under the description of landscape architect. (Amended 57 of 1999 s. 3)
(4) Subject to subsection (3), a person including a firm or company shall not use the description of “landscape architects” or “registered landscape architects” or the initials “R.L.A.” unless—
(a) at each place where the person carries on the business of landscape architecture, the business is conducted under the supervision of a registered landscape architect who does not act at the same time in a similar capacity for any other person other than for a firm or company that has substantially the same beneficial ownership and management as the person (where the person is a firm or company);
(b) where the person carries on a multidisciplinary practice, that business, so far as it relates to landscape architecture, is under the full time control and management of a registered landscape architect who does not act at the same time in a similar capacity for any other person other than for a firm or company that has substantially the same beneficial ownership and management as the person (where the person is a firm or company).