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Student Handbook

10. Resignation/ Removal from Student Register/ Re-registration

10.1 Student Resignation

If you wish, for any reason, to resign from the Student Register, you should notify the Institute
by with a completed "Discontinuation of Studentship" form (obtained from QP Registration
Section) by 15 December in the year for which you have paid your annual subscription.

10.2 Removal from Student Register

10.2.1 Fee Arrears

If your annual subscription is more than three months in arrears, your name will be
removed from the Student Register.

10.2.2 Time Limits

In accordance with By-law 39(1) of the Professional Accountants Ordinance, the
Registrar shall remove from the register the name of any registered student who has
not presented himself for any of the examinations of the Institute within 5 years or
those who have not passed the final section of the examinations of the Institute within
10 years from the date of his registration as a registered student.

The Institute's Qualification and Examinations Board stipulates that the time limit rule
must be administered rigorously and only students with exceptional circumstances
could be granted extension under the By-law 39(2). That is, those who have
reached the time limit will be removed from the student register and will be required to
re-register to start the QP afresh.

Students can login their student account at the Institute's website to enquire their date
of student registration.
The Registrar shall remove your name from the Student Register if you:

(a) have not presented yourself for any of the examinations within five years of
registration (By-law 39(1)(a)); or
(b) have not completed the QP examinations which comprise four modules and a
final examination within ten years of registration (By-law 39(1)(b)).

For those who have not completed the QP within ten years from the date of student
registration, the passes that they have obtained in the modules previously taken will
lapse and their current student registration number will be invalid. They will be
required to start afresh and re-register their studentship with the Institute should they
wish to continue their study of the QP.

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