Offences and penalties
Any person who—
(a)having been summoned by an inquiry committee to attend as a witness or to produce a document or other thing under section 24 without reasonable excuse refuses or fails to do so;
(b)attends as a witness before an inquiry committee and, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to answer any question put to him by the inquiry committee;
(c)fraudulently obtains registration as a registered professional engineer for himself or any other person;
(d)obtains registration as a registered professional engineer for himself or any other person by means of any misleading, false or fraudulent representation or statement, either orally or in writing;
(e)makes or causes to be made any falsification in the register;
(f)impersonates or falsely represents himself as being the person referred to in any certificate or document presented to the Board or an inquiry committee in connection with its functions under this Ordinance;
(g)falsely takes or uses any name, initials, title, addition or description implying that his name is entered in the register;
(h)not being a registered professional engineer, knowingly permits the use of or uses in connection with his business or profession the description—
(i)“registered professional engineer”;
(ii)“registered professional engineer” with reference to a discipline;
(iii)“R.P.E.”;
(iv)“R.P.E.” with reference to a discipline; or
(v)initials or abbreviations of words intended to cause, or which may reasonably cause, any person to believe that the person using them is on the register;
(i)not being on the register, advertises or represents himself as a registered professional engineer or knowingly permits himself to be so advertised or represented;
(j)holds himself out to be ordinarily resident in Hong Kong at the time of making an application for registration when he is not so ordinarily resident,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(Amended E.R. 5 of 2020)