The Supplementary Medical Professions Council was established under the Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance, Chapter 359, Laws of Hong Kong, in 1981. The Supplementary Medical Professions Ordinance, enacted in 1980, provides a statutory framework for the registration, discipline and management of persons engaged in the following professions:

1. medical laboratory technologists,
2. occupational therapists,
3. optometrists,
4. physiotherapists and
5. radiographers.

The functions of the Supplementary Medical Professions Council are:

1. to promote adequate standards of professional practice and of professional conduct in the above-named five professions;
2. to co-ordinate and supervise the activities of the five Boards established respectively for the five professions under the same Ordinance; and
3. to carry out any additional functions assigned to it by the Ordinance.

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