Persons Suitable to Hold Licences
- meets all the prescribed criteria for holding the licence;
- is a suitable person to hold the licence, and
2. the applicant has paid the prescribed fee for the issue of the licence.
- whether the individual is a mentally disordered person, or a patient, within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136);
- whether the individual has been convicted of a criminal offence;
- whether the individual has been convicted of a disciplinary offence;
- whether the individual is or was the sole proprietor of a PMC whose application for a PMC licence has been refused or whose PMC licence has been revoked or suspended; and
- whether the individual is or was an officer of, or a partner in, a PMC whose application for a PMC licence has been refused or whose PMC licence has been revoked or suspended.
Applicants for licence are required to answer certain questions in the application forms concerning their suitability. If any answer to these questions is “yes” or “not sure”, the applicant will be required to provide further information, including, for example, criminal conviction records.
A person commits an offence if the person, in connection with an application for a licence, provides any information or document to the PMSA that is false or misleading in a material particular; and the person knows that, or is reckless as to whether, the information or document is false or misleading in a material particular. The person who commits the offence is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of HKD$200,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year or on summary conviction to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6 months.