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

22. Appeals
(1) Any person who considers himself aggrieved by a decision or an order of the Council made in accordance with the provisions of— (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21; 10 of 2005 s. 74)
(a) section 9(3) refusing to enter his name upon the register;
(b) section 15(3) refusing to enter his name upon the roll; or
(c) section 17, (Amended 68 of 1995 s. 2)
may appeal therefrom to the Court of Appeal and the Court of Appeal may affirm, vary or reverse the decision or the order, as the case may be, and may exercise any power which the Council might have exercised. (Replaced 38 of 1970 s. 11. Amended 92 of 1975 s. 59; 67 of 1985 s. 16; 82 of 1997 s. 21; 10 of 2005 ss. 70 & 74)
(2) The procedure in relation to appeals made under this section shall be subject to any rules of court made under the provisions of the High Court Ordinance (Cap. 4): (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)
Provided that no such appeal shall be heard unless notice thereof has been given to the court within 30 days after the service upon the appellant in accordance with section 21 of a copy of the order to which the appeal relates.

23. Falsification of register or roll
Any person who wilfully makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a matter relating—
(a) to the register or to the registration of any name therein; or 
(b) to the roll or to the enrolment of any name therein, 
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction to a fine at level 1 and to imprisonment for 3 months. 
(Replaced 38 of 1970 s. 12. Amended E.R. 7 of 2020)

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

25. Power of Council to prohibit registered nurses or enrolled nurses suffering from certain diseases from attending sick persons
(Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)(1) If any registered nurse or any enrolled nurse contracts any scheduled infectious disease within the meaning of the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap. 599), which, in the opinion of the Council, is likely to endanger the health of any person attended by him, the Council may prohibit such registered nurse or enrolled nurse, as the case may be, from attending sick persons in his professional capacity. (Amended 38 of 1970 s. 14; 45 of 1972 s. 3; 82 of 1997 s. 21; 14 of 2008 s. 18)
(2) Any contravention of a prohibition imposed under this section shall constitute a ground for the institution of disciplinary proceedings in accordance with section 17.

26. Exemptions from registration
The following persons shall be exempted from registration or enrolment but shall be deemed to be registered nurses or enrolled nurses— (Amended 38 of 1970 s. 15; 45 of 1972 s. 3)
(a) persons serving in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the capacity of nurse while acting in the discharge of their duty; and (Amended 2 of 2012 s. 3)
(b) persons in full time employment by the Government in the capacity of nurse while acting in the discharge of their duty.

### Nurses (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations 《護士(註冊及紀律處分程序)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Nurses (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Committee” (小組) means the Preliminary Investigation Committee referred to in regulation 15; 
“defendant” (被告人) means the person to be charged at a disciplinary inquiry held in accordance with these regulations; 
“training school” (訓練學校) means an establishment declared in accordance with regulation 9 to be a training school for nurses.

3. Contents of register
(1) The register shall contain in respect of each nurse whose name is registered therein the particulars specified in the First Schedule. 
(2) The register shall be divided into the following parts—
(a) Part I, which shall contain the names of all such nurses as are authorized by the provisions of the Ordinance and these regulations to practise general nursing; 
(b) Part II, which shall contain the names of all such nurses as are specially qualified in the nursing and care of persons suffering from mental diseases; 
(c) Part III, which shall contain the names of all such nurses as are specially qualified in the nursing and care of the mentally subnormal; and (L.N. 34 of 1970) 
(d) Part IV, which shall contain the names of all such nurses as are specially qualified in the nursing and care of sick children.

### Nurses (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations 《護士(註冊及紀律處分程序)規例》

4. Application for registration
(1) Every application for registration as a nurse shall be submitted in writing to the secretary and shall—
(a) contain the following particulars—
(i) name;
(ii) age;
(iii) address;
(iv) whether married or single;
(v) hospital or training school where trained;
(vi) particulars of training;
(vii) dates of previous applications to the Council, if any; and (L.N. 116 of 1999)
(viii) the part or parts of the register in respect of which the application for registration is submitted; and
(b) be accompanied by—
(i) a testimonial as to character preferably by a resident of standing in Hong Kong; (67 of 1985 s. 16)
(ii) a certificate or diploma issued by a training school or, in the case of a person claiming qualification for registration under paragraph (d), (e), (f) or (g) of subsection (1) of section 8 of the Ordinance, by the appropriate authorizing body;
(iii) passport or identification certificate;
(iv) two unmounted copies of a photograph of the applicant taken not more than two years before the date of application for registration; and
(v) the certificate of a registered medical practitioner, within the meaning of the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161), certifying that the applicant is not suffering from any scheduled infectious disease, within the meaning of the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap. 599), such as to render him unfit, in such practitioner’s opinion, to attend the sick. (14 of 2008 s. 18)
(2) Payment of the appropriate fee prescribed in the Second Schedule shall be a condition precedent to the registration of any name in the register.

5. Form of certificate of registration
The certificate of registration shall be in accordance with Form 1 in the Third Schedule.

5A. Form of practising certificate
A practising certificate issued under section 10A of the Ordinance shall be in such form as the secretary determines. 
(34 of 1995 s. 31)

6. Fee for copy of certificate of registration
The fee payable upon issue of a replacement copy of any certificate of registration or any practising certificate or of any certificate verifying such registration shall be the appropriate fee prescribed in the Second Schedule. 
(34 of 1995 s. 32; 9 of 2002 s. 4)

7. Fee for restoration of name to the register
Where the name of any nurse is restored to any part of the register in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of section 21 of the Ordinance, there shall be paid to the secretary the appropriate fee prescribed in the Second Schedule as a condition precedent to the restoration to the register of the name of such nurse.