Hong Kong Ordinances

NURSES REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 18

Powers of the Council with regard to obtaining evidence and the conduct of proceedings

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) For the purpose of any inquiry under section 9, 15 or 17, the Council
shall have the following powers- (Amended 38 of 1970 s. 8; 82 of 1997 s. 21)

   (a)  to take evidence and examine witnesses on oath;

   (b)  to summon any person to attend the inquiry to give evidence or to
        produce any document or other thing in his possession or under his
        control and to examine him as a witness or to require him to produce
        any document or other thing in his possession or under his control;

   (c)  to admit or exclude the public or any member of the public from the
        inquiry;

   (d)  to admit or exclude the press from the inquiry; and

   (e)  to award any person summoned to attend the inquiry such sum or sums as
        in the opinion of the Council may have been reasonably expended by him
        by reason of his attendance. (Amended 82 of 1997 s. 21)

(2) Summonses as to witnesses may be in such form as may be prescribed and
shall be signed by the secretary.