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

15. Publication of General Register and evidence of registration, etc.
(1) As soon as may be after 1 January of every year, the Registrar shall prepare and publish in the Gazette a list of the names, addresses, registration numbers, and other particulars the Registrar considers appropriate, of all persons whose names appear on Part I, III or V of the General Register on 1 January immediately preceding the publication of the list in the Gazette. (Amended 70 of 1976 s. 9; 38 of 1992 s. 6; 87 of 1995 s. 15; 7 of 1996 s. 45) 
(2) As soon as may be after 1 July of every year, the Registrar shall prepare and publish in the Gazette a list of the names, addresses, registration numbers, and other particulars the Registrar considers appropriate, of all persons whose names were added to Part I, III or V of the General Register between 1 January and 1 July of such year. (Amended 70 of 1976 s. 9; 38 of 1992 s. 6; 87 of 1995 s. 15; 7 of 1996 s. 45) 
(3) The publication of a list referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall be prima facie evidence that each person named in such list is registered. 
(4) The absence of the name of any person from the list last published under subsection (1) and any list subsequently published under subsection (2) shall be prima facie evidence that such person is not registered. 
(5) A certificate under the hand of the Registrar stating that the name of a person is or is not at any date or was or was not at any date registered in Part I, III, IV or V of the General Register or provisionally registered in Part II of the General Register, as the case may be, shall be conclusive evidence in all courts of law of the facts stated in such certificate. (Replaced 7 of 1996 s. 45)
(Amended 37 of 2021 s. 11)

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

16. Privileges of registered medical practitioners
(1) Subject to section 20A, every registered medical practitioner shall be entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery and to recover in due course of law reasonable charges for professional aid, advice and visits and the value of any medicine or any medical or surgical appliances rendered, made or supplied by him to his patients. (Amended 70 of 1975 s. 5)
(2) Subject to the provisions of sections 30 and 31, no person shall be entitled to recover in any Court any such charges as are referred to in subsection (1) unless at the date when such charges accrued he was a registered medical practitioner: 
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall affect the practice of midwifery by any person duly licensed in that behalf under the provisions of any law in force in Hong Kong. (Amended 25 of 1984 s. 10)

17. Medical certificates
No certificate or other document required by any written law to be signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner given after the commencement* of this Ordinance shall be valid unless signed by a person who at the date of such signing was a registered medical practitioner.

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 1 June 1957.

18. Definition
The words legally qualified medical practitioner (具法定資格的醫生) or duly qualified medical practitioner (正式符合資格的醫生) or any words importing a person recognized by law as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, when used in any written law with reference to such persons, shall be construed to mean a registered medical practitioner.

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

19. Power of Council to order removal of names from General Register
(1) The Council may order the removal from the General Register of the name of any person who— 
(a) is deceased; 
(b) has not, before 30 June of a year, obtained his practising certificate issued under section 20A(2) for that year or his retention certificate issued under section 19A for that year, as may be appropriate; (Replaced 7 of 1996 s. 12) 
(c) being a person required to be the holder of a practising certificate, has practised medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong for a period exceeding 6 months without having obtained such a certificate; or 
(d) has failed to supply the Registrar with an address in Hong Kong at which notices from the Council may be served on him. 
(2) Any person who fails to acknowledge within 4 months after the date of dispatch the receipt of a registered letter or a telegram addressed to him at the last address in Hong Kong supplied by him to the Registrar shall be deemed to have failed to supply the Registrar with an address under subsection (1)(d).
(Replaced 70 of 1975 s. 6Amended 7 of 1996 s. 12)

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

19A. Medical practitioners resident outside Hong Kong
(1) A registered medical practitioner who is resident outside Hong Kong and has ceased to practise medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong, or any branch of medicine or surgery in Hong Kong, may apply to the Registrar for the transfer of his name from the resident list to the non-resident list as specified in Part I of the General Register.
(2) Subject to—
(a) the submission of evidence that the applicant has not been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable with imprisonment; 
(b) the payment of the prescribed fee for alteration of the General Register; and 
(c) the payment of the prescribed retention fee, 
the Registrar may transfer the applicant’s name from the resident list to the non-resident list and upon the transfer, shall issue to the applicant a certificate to the effect that he is, subject to any conditions and restrictions specified in the certificate, entitled to have his name remain in the General Register for the period specified in the certificate.
(3) If the registered medical practitioner is desirous of having his name remain on the non-resident list beyond the period specified in the certificate issued under subsection (2), he may, within 2 months before the expiry of the certificate, apply to the Registrar for renewal of the certificate.
(4) Upon an application under subsection (3) and subject to—
(a) the submission of evidence that the applicant has not been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable with imprisonment; and 
(b) the payment of the prescribed retention fee, 
the Registrar shall issue to the applicant a certificate to the effect that he is, subject to any conditions and restrictions specified in the certificate, entitled to have his name remain in the General Register for the period specified in the certificate. 
(5) Where a registered medical practitioner returns to Hong Kong and resumes the practice of medicine, surgery or midwifery in Hong Kong, or any branch of medicine or surgery in Hong Kong, he shall apply to the Registrar for—
(a) the transfer of his name from the non-resident list to the resident list; and
(b) a practising certificate issued under section 20A. 
(6) Upon an application under subsection (5)(a) and subject to—
(a) the submission of evidence that the applicant has not been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable with imprisonment and has not been guilty of misconduct in a professional respect while residing and practising outside Hong Kong; and (Amended 37 of 2000 s. 3) 
(b) the payment of the prescribed fee for alteration of the General Register, 
the Registrar may transfer the applicant’s name from the non-resident list to the resident list.
(Added 7 of 1996 s. 13. Amended 23 of 1998 s. 2)