### Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance 《輔助醫療業條例》

12. Persons who are qualified to be registered
(1) Subject to this Ordinance, the following persons are qualified to be registered—
(a) a person who—
(i) holds such degree, diploma or other document as may be prescribed, issued by any examining body as may be prescribed or by the board; or
(ii) holds any such degree, diploma or other document and has the prescribed experience; or (Replaced 70 of 1989 s. 2)
(b) a person who holds such other degree, diploma or any other document of any examining body, which together with appropriate experience, may from time to time be recognized by the Council as qualifying the holder thereof to be registered; and in deciding whether or not to so recognize the Council may consult the relevant board; or
(c) a person who, on the date on which this section commenced to apply to a profession, is practising that profession and who by reason of his education, training, professional experience and skill satisfies the Council, after consultation with the relevant board, that he is a fit person to be registered.
(1A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance, the Council shall—
(a) determine in which part of the register, not being a part referred to in section 15(8), the name of a person qualified to be registered by virtue of subsection (1)(b) or (c) shall be entered, subject to his application for registration being approved under section 13(2); and
(b) direct the secretary of the relevant board accordingly for the purposes of entry in the register under section 13(4). (Added 70 of 1989 s. 2)
(2) A person who wilfully procures himself or any other person to be registered by making or producing or causing to be made or produced, any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, whether in writing or otherwise commits an offence.

### Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance 《輔助醫療業條例》

13. Application for registration
(1) A person claiming to be qualified to be registered may apply in the manner prescribed to the secretary of the relevant board for registration and such application shall be accompanied by such documents, photographs and particulars as may be prescribed.
(2) The application of person qualified to be registered in accordance with section 12 who has complied with subsection (1) and with any regulations relating thereto, shall, subject to subsection (3), be approved by the board for registration. (Replaced 67 of 1985 s. 5)
(3) After due inquiry into any case referred to it by a Preliminary Investigation Committee in accordance with regulations made under section 29, the board may decline to approve the application of a person applying under subsection (1) on any of the grounds mentioned in section 22(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e). (Added 67 of 1985 s. 5)
(4) Where an application for registration receives the approval of the board, the name of the applicant shall after payment of the prescribed fee be entered in the register by the secretary of the board in accordance with this Ordinance and regulations made thereunder, and upon such entry, the applicant shall be entitled to represent in connexion with his profession that he is registered and, subject to section 16(1), and any regulations made under section 29 shall be entitled to practise that profession. (Amended 67 of 1985 s. 5; 70 of 1989 s. 3; 68 of 1995 s. 2; 80 of 1997 s. 20)

### Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance 《輔助醫療業條例》

14. Certificate of registration
(1) When a person has been registered, the secretary of the relevant board shall issue to him a certificate of registration in the prescribed form.
(2) The secretary of the board may amend any particulars contained in a certificate of registration.
(3) A person registered who requires a certified copy of his certificate of registration in order to comply with section 18 shall apply in writing to the secretary of the relevant board stating the address of the premises at which he proposes to practise, and the secretary shall upon payment of the prescribed fee issue to the person registered a certified copy of his certificate of registration with the words “certified copy” and “核證副本” endorsed thereon. (Amended 80 of 1997 s. 130)
(4) (Repealed 68 of 1995 s. 34)(5) Every person registered shall report to the secretary of the relevant board—
(a) every address at which he practises his profession; and
(b) any change in any address referred to in paragraph (a) within 2 months of such change. (Replaced 68 of 1995 s. 34)
(6) Any person registered who fails without reasonable excuse to make a report in accordance with subsection (5)(a) or (b) commits an offence.
(7) If a certificate of registration has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the person registered may apply in writing to the secretary of the relevant board to issue to him a duplicate certificate of registration and the secretary, upon being satisfied as to such loss, destruction or defacement, shall upon payment of the prescribed fee issue to the person registered a duplicate of such certificate with the word “duplicate” and the words “複本” endorsed thereon. (Amended 80 of 1997 s. 130)
(8) If it appears to the secretary of a board that a certificate of registration is defaced or that the photograph thereon is not a reasonable likeness of the person registered to whom the certificate of registration relates the secretary by notice in writing may require the person registered to lodge his certificate of registration with the secretary and to apply for the issue of a duplicate certificate of registration or of another certified copy, as the case may be, and any person registered who on being so required fails without reasonable excuse to do so within 7 days of the service of such notice commits an offence.

14A. Certificate of standing
The board may, upon application made for the purpose and upon payment of the prescribed fee, issue to a person whose name appears in the register, a certificate of standing and a certificate verifying registration.
(Added 70 of 1989 s. 4)

### Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance 《輔助醫療業條例》

15. Provisional registration
(1) A person who is practising a profession on the date when this Part commenced to apply to that profession, but who, on that date, is not qualified under section 12 to be registered, may apply, within such period of time from such date as may be determined by the Council, to the secretary of the relevant board for provisional registration.
(2) Subject to subsection (2A), if the board is satisfied that an applicant for provisional registration has acquired substantial knowledge, experience and skill in the practice of his profession the board may authorize its secretary, upon payment of the prescribed fee, to issue to such applicant a certificate of provisional registration with the word “provisional” and the words “臨時” endorsed thereon. (Amended 70 of 1989 s. 5; 80 of 1997 s. 131)
(2A) The board may, in order to satisfy itself that an applicant for provisional registration has acquired substantial knowledge, experience and skill in the practice of his profession, require him to pass an examination held under section 15A for the purposes of this section. (Added 70 of 1989 s. 5)
(3) The board may, in exercising the powers conferred by subsection (2), impose on an applicant for provisional registration such conditions as it thinks fit.
(4) Where the board has imposed conditions under subsection (3) it may cancel, amend or add to those conditions.
(5) Any conditions imposed under subsection (3), as the same may have been amended or added to under subsection (4), shall be included in the certificate of provisional registration issued to the person to whom the conditions apply.
(6) Where any person to whom such conditions apply fails to comply with those conditions, the board may cancel that person’s provisional registration and direct that his name and particulars be removed from the register.
(7) Sections 12(2) and 13 shall apply to every application for provisional registration under this section. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2020)
(8) The names and particulars of persons to whom certificates of provisional registration are issued under this section shall appear in a separate part of the register.