### Veterinary Surgeons Registration Ordinance 《獸醫註冊條例》

25. Offences and penalties
(1) Any person who—
(a) having been summoned by an inquiry committee to attend as a witness or to produce a document or other thing under section 20 without reasonable excuse refuses or fails to do so;
(b) attends as a witness before an inquiry committee and, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to answer any question put to him by the inquiry committee;
(c) fraudulently obtains registration as a registered veterinary surgeon for himself or any other person;
(d) obtains registration as a registered veterinary surgeon for himself or any other person by means of any misleading, false or fraudulent representation or statement, either orally or in writing;
(e) makes or causes to be made any falsification in the register;
(f) impersonates or falsely represents himself as being the person referred to in any certificate or document presented to the Board or an inquiry committee in connection with its functions under this Ordinance;
(g) not having his name entered in the register, takes or uses any name, initials, title, addition or description falsely implying that his name is entered in the register;
(h) contravenes section 16;
(i) not having his name entered in the register, uses or knowingly permits the use in connection with his business or profession of—
(i) the description “registered veterinary surgeon” or “註冊獸醫”; or
(ii) initials or abbreviations or words intended to cause, or which may reasonably cause, any person to believe that the person using them is a registered veterinary surgeon; or
(j) not having his name entered in the register, advertises or represents himself as a registered veterinary surgeon or knowingly permits himself to be so advertised or represented,

commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(2) A person who fails forthwith to return his registration certificate to the Secretary after the removal of his name from the register commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1.

26. Certificate as evidence
(1) A certificate, purporting to be signed by the Secretary, that the name of a person has or has not been entered in or has been removed or ordered to be removed from the register shall for all purposes, without further proof, be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.
(2) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Secretary, that at a date specified in the certificate a person is not or was not the holder of a practising certificate then in force shall for all purposes, without further proof, be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

### Veterinary Surgeons Registration Ordinance 《獸醫註冊條例》

27. Protection of members of Board and committees
(1) No member or employee of the Board or of any committee of the Board shall be personally liable for any act done or default made—
(a) by the Board; or
(b) by any committee of the Board,

acting in good faith in the exercise or purported exercise of the powers conferred on the Board by, or by virtue of, this Ordinance.
(2) The protection hereby conferred on members and employees of the Board or of a committee in respect of any act or default shall not in any way affect any liability of the Board for that act or default.

28. Regulations
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Secretary for Environment and Ecology may by regulation provide for— (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; L.N. 144 of 2022)
(a) anything that is to be or may be prescribed;
(b) generally carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), the Secretary for Environment and Ecology may by regulation provide for matters concerning an election of members to the Board, including— (Amended L.N. 144 of 2022)
(a) the date, time and place and the procedure, of the election;
(b) matters concerning the qualification or disqualification of the electors of the election;
(c) matters concerning the qualification, disqualification or nomination of the candidates of the election;
(d) the appointment of persons to assist in the holding of the election;
(e) the particulars of the voting or vote counting system of the election;
(f) the determination, notification or questioning of election results; and
(g)  other matters concerning the election. (Added 6 of 2015 s. 13.)
(2) The Financial Secretary may by regulation provide for the fees to be paid in connection with matters within the scope of this Ordinance.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, rules made by the Board under section 6 or 18(3) or section 3(5) of Schedule 1 are not subsidiary legislation within the meaning of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1).

29. Exemptions
(1) The persons listed in Schedule 2 are exempted in the circumstances specified therein from the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) The Secretary for Environment and Ecology may, by order, amend Schedule 2. (Amended 78 of 1999 s. 7; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; L.N. 144 of 2022)

### Veterinary Surgeons Registration Ordinance 《獸醫註冊條例》

44. (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2012)

### Copyright Ordinance 《版權條例》

1. Short title and interpretation
(Amended E.R. 2 of 2019)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Copyright Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2019)(3) The tables showing the provisions defining expressions used in Part II and Part III are set out in sections 199 and 239 respectively.

2. Copyright and copyright works
(1) Copyright is a property right which subsists in accordance with this Part in the following descriptions of work—
(a) original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works;
(b) sound recordings, films, broadcasts or cable programmes; and
(c) the typographical arrangement of published editions.
(2) In this Part copyright work (版權作品) means a work of any of those descriptions in which copyright subsists.
(3) Copyright does not subsist in a work unless the requirements of this Part with respect to qualification for copyright protection are met (see section 177 and the provisions referred to there).
[cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 1 U.K.]

3. Rights subsisting in copyright works
(1) The owner of the copyright in a work of any description has the exclusive right to do the acts specified in Division II as the acts restricted by the copyright in a work of that description.
(2) In relation to certain descriptions of copyright work the following rights conferred by Division IV (moral rights) subsist in favour of the author or director of the work, whether or not he is the owner of the copyright—
(a) section 89 (right to be identified as author or director); and
(b) section 92 (right to object to derogatory treatment of work).
[cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 2 U.K.]