Disciplinary orders of inquiry committee and costs
(1)Where an inquiry committee finds that a registered professional engineer committed a disciplinary offence, on confirmation by a review committee of the finding, or on the variation of the finding or any proposed order based on the recommendation of the review committee, the inquiry committee may make any one or more of the following orders— (Amended 33 of 1997 s. 11)
(a)order the Registrar to remove the name of the registered professional engineer from the register;
(b)order the Registrar to remove the name of the registered professional engineer from the register for such period as the inquiry committee may think fit;
(c)reprimand the registered professional engineer in writing and order the Registrar to record the reprimand on the register;
(d)order that an order made under this section be suspended, subject to such conditions as the inquiry committee may think fit, for a period not exceeding 2 years;
(e)order that the Board shall not accept an application from the registered professional engineer for registration as a registered professional engineer either for a fixed period or until the registered professional engineer satisfies the Board that he should be registered;
(f)order that the Chairman admonish the registered professional engineer orally; (Amended 33 of 1997 s. 11)
(g)order the registered professional engineer to pay all or part of the costs of any of the Registrar, the Board or the inquiry committee arising from the case if, but only if, the inquiry committee is satisfied that in all the circumstances of the case it would be unjust and inequitable not to do so. (Added 33 of 1997 s. 11)
(2)Costs payable by virtue of an order under subsection (1)(g) shall be recoverable as a civil debt. (Added 33 of 1997 s. 11)
(3)The inquiry committee may—
(a)assess the amount of any costs to be payable by virtue of an order under subsection (1)(g); or
(b)order that those costs be taxed on the basis of any one of the scale of costs specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to Order 62 of the Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336 sub. leg. H), (Amended 25 of 2008 s. 15)
and the Schedules to Order 62 of the Rules of the High Court (Cap. 4 sub. leg. A) shall, with all necessary modifications, apply to the taxation and recovery of costs. (Added 33 of 1997 s. 11. Amended 57 of 1999 s. 3)
(4)For the purposes of this Ordinance (including sections 25 and 28), any assessment or order under subsection (3) shall be deemed to be part of the order under subsection (1)(g) to which it relates. (Added 33 of 1997 s. 11)