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Statutory requirements

*   All registrants are reminded to renew your annual practising certificates that will expire on 30 June each year. In accordance with section 16 of the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance, no registrant should practise his/her profession in Hong Kong unless he/she holds a practising certificate that is then in force.

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All registrants should keep the Secretary to the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board informed of your updated correspondence/practising address(es) within two months of such a change.

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Companies carrying on the business of practising medical laboratory science are reminded to provide the requested information with the Secretary to the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board by completing the prescribed statement form within 14 days after 1 July in each year.

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Under section 11 of the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance, a list of the names, addresses, qualifications and dates of the qualifications of all persons whose names appear on the register has to be published annually in the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette. The correspondence address that you provide to the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board will appear in the Gazette and on the relevant Government website where the e-Gazette is published. The names and the registration numbers of registrants will also be posted on the website (www.smp-council.org.hk/mlt/english/index.htm) of the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board. The main purpose of publishing such information is to protect the public by creating a public record of persons who are registered medical laboratory technologists and are entitled to practise the profession in Hong Kong.


Submission of annual CPD return

*   All CPD participants are reminded to report on their attendance of CPD activities during the period from 1 May 2010 to 30 April 2011 by submitting a duly completed Record Sheet of CPD Programmes/Activities Attended (Forms IIa & IIb) to the secretariat on or before 31 May 2011 either by mail (Secretariat, Medical Laboratory Technologists Board, 2/F, Shun Feng International Centre, 182 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong) or by fax (no. 2865 5540). Please note that a number of CPD participants will be randomly selected for in-depth checking of their CPD attainment record. The participants concerned will be requested to submit copies of the documents of attendance to the Board for audit check in due course.


Arrangements for Disciplinary Inquiries in times of Typhoons and Rainstorms


Guidelines

All registrants should take note of the following guidelines in practising the profession -

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Guidelines on Biosafety in the Clinical Laboratory issued by the Department of Health.

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Guidelines on "Precautions to Prevent Transmission of Infection in the Clinical Laboratory" issued by the Department of Health

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Hong Kong Childhood Immunisation Programme (2007) issued by the Department of Health.

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A practical guide for SARS laboratories issued by the Regional Office for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organisation

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A practical guide for infection control in health care facilities issued jointly by the South-East Asia and Westen Pacific Regional Offices of the World Health Organisation

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Proper referral for performance of medical test

Under Section E of Part II of the Code of Practice, no Medical Laboratory Technologist should -

  • perform any tests for the purpose of medical diagnosis and treatment in the absence of a referral from registered medical , dental and/or veterinary practitioners, or a person registered in respect of a medical clinic exempted under section 8(1) of the Medical Clinics Ordinance, Cap. 343 (See note (i))

  • knowingly accept, obtain, assist in obtaining or report on any specimen for the purpose of medical diagnosis and/or treatment of disease, or make any investigation for those purposes unless the diagnosis and/or treatment are to be performed by a registered medical, dental, or veterinary practitioners, or a person registered in respect of a medical clinic exempted under section 8(1) of the Medical Clinics Ordinance, Cap. 343 (See note (i)).
Note (i): Unless there is specific evidence to the contrary, it is considered that a person who has carefully followed procedures which have been approved by hospitals and similar institutions will not be considered to be in breach of this requirement. Even in those cases where there is specific evidence, the Board may take into account special circumstances that a breach of this rule should not make the person guilty of misconduct in a professional respect.

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