Hong Kong Ordinances

NURSES REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 25

Power of Council to prohibit registered nurses or enrolled nurses suffering from certain diseases from attending sick persons

(Past version on 03/05/1999).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) If any registered nurse or any enrolled nurse contracts any scheduled
infectious disease within the meaning of the Prevention and 
Control of Disease Ordinance ( Cap 599), which, in the opinion of the Council,
is likely to endanger the health of any person attended by him, the Council
may prohibit such registered nurse or enrolled nurse, as the case may be, from
attending sick persons in his professional capacity. (Amended 38 of 1970 s.
14; 45 of 1972 s. 3; 82 of 1997 s. 21; 14 of 2008 s. 18)

(2) Any contravention of a prohibition imposed under this section shall
constitute a ground for the institution of disciplinary proceedings in
accordance with section 17.