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

10A. Period of assessment
(1) A person who has passed the Licensing Examination and who wishes to be registered as a medical practitioner under section 14 or 14C shall complete, to the satisfaction of the Council, such period of assessment as the Council may determine, not exceeding the prescribed period, in an approved hospital or in an approved institution. (Amended 87 of 1995 s. 9; 37 of 2021 s. 8)
(2) The Council may reduce the period of assessment determined in the case of any person, or may extend the period so determined and any such extension of that period may require a period of assessment exceeding the prescribed period. 
(3) Where the Council is of the opinion that a person undergoing a period of assessment is unlikely to attain the professional standards required of a registered medical practitioner, the Council may terminate that person’s period of assessment. (Amended 87 of 1995 s. 9) 
(4) In this section approved (認可), in relation to a hospital or institution, means approved by the Council for the purposes of this section. 
(Added 70 of 1976 s. 6)

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

12. Provisional registration
(1) A person who has passed the Licensing Examination or a qualifying examination may be provisionally registered, on application to the Registrar and production to the Registrar of evidence to the satisfaction of the Registrar that—
(a) he has been engaged in employment as is mentioned in section 9(1); or 
(b) he has been engaged to undergo a period of assessment as mentioned in section 10A(1), 
and on payment of a prescribed fee. (Replaced 87 of 1995 s. 11) 
(1A) A person who is entitled to be provisionally registered under section 35(7) shall be provisionally registered on application to the Registrar and production to the Registrar of evidence to the satisfaction of the Registrar that he has been selected for such employment as is mentioned in section 9(1) of the Original Provisions and on payment of a prescribed fee. (Added 25 of 1997 s. 3)
(2) Any person who has been provisionally registered in Part II of the General Register shall be deemed to be registered as far as is necessary— (Amended 70 of 1976 s. 7; 87 of 1995 s. 11; 7 of 1996 s. 43) 
(a) to enable him to be employed as mentioned in section 9(1);
(aa) to enable him to serve a period of assessment under section 10A; (Added 70 of 1976 s. 7)
(b) in order that the provisions of sections 19, 20T and 20V and of Part IV may be applicable to him; (Amended 7 of 1996 s. 43) 
(c) for the purpose of section 5 of the Jury Ordinance (Cap. 3) and for the purpose of such other enactments as may be prescribed; and 
(d) for any other purpose which the Chief Executive in Council may by order direct, (Amended 37 of 2000 s. 3)
but not further.

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

13. Degrees, etc.
(1) No degree or qualification shall be entered on the General Register, either on the first registration or by way of addition to a registered name, unless the Registrar is satisfied by such evidence as he may consider sufficient that the person claiming such degree or qualification is entitled thereto. 
(2) Every person registered under this Ordinance who obtains any additional degree or other qualification other than the qualification in respect of which he has been registered, shall be entitled subject to the provisions of this section to have such additional degree or other qualification inserted in the General Register in substitution for or in addition to the qualification previously registered. 
(3) The Council may decide what additional degrees and other qualifications may be entered on the General Register. 
(4) Where the Council is of the opinion that a degree or qualification, previously allowed to be entered on the General Register, is no longer appropriate to be entered on it, the Council may, after giving notice to all the persons registered with the degree or qualification, erase the degree or qualification from the entry on the General Register of the persons concerned. (Added 7 of 1996 s. 8)
(Amended 7 of 1996 s. 8)

13A. Title of registered medical practitioner
A registered medical practitioner is entitled to be known in the English language as “registered medical practitioner of the Medical Council of Hong Kong” or the abbreviation “registered medical practitioner” and in the Chinese language as “ 香港醫務委員會註冊醫生” or the abbreviation “ 註冊醫生”. 
(Replaced 87 of 1995 s. 12)

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

14. Registration
(1) Any person entitled to be registered under this section and section 35(7) may apply to the Registrar for registration. (Amended 87 of 1995 s. 13; 25 of 1997 s. 4)
(2) Applications for registration under this section shall be made in such manner and form as the Registrar determines and shall be accompanied by such documents and particulars and by such fee as may be prescribed. (Amended 34 of 1995 s. 13. Replaced 7 of 1996 s. 9) 
(3) Where a person has complied with the provisions of subsection (2), he shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, be registered by the Registrar who shall issue to him a licence of the Medical Council of Hong Kong in such form as the Registrar determines. (Amended 87 of 1995 s. 13; 7 of 1996 s. 44) 
(4) The Council may, if satisfied after due inquiry that an applicant for registration—
(a) has been convicted in Hong Kong or elsewhere of any offence punishable with imprisonment; or (Amended 25 of 1984 s. 10)
(b) has been guilty of misconduct in a professional respect; or (Amended 7 of 1996 s. 9)
(c) is not of good character, (Added 7 of 1996 s. 9)
order that the name of the applicant be not entered upon the General Register. (Added 95 of 1970 s. 3. Amended 33 of 1971 s. 2; 7 of 1996 s. 44)
(5) Section 21 and Parts III, IV and X of the Medical Practitioners (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulation (Cap. 161 sub. leg. E) that are capable of application to an inquiry held for the purposes of this section apply to the inquiry, as if the references to an inquiry panel in those provisions were references to the Council. (Replaced 15 of 2018 s. 8)