The objects for which the Society is established are :

(a)

To promote the advancement of knowledge in parenteral and enteral nutrition and allied subjects for public benefit.
(b)

To co-ordinate and correlate the efforts of organisations, companies, associations, societies, institutions, statutory bodies and other authorities and individuals interested in clinical nutrition or allied subjects, in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease for reducing mortality therefrom in Hong Kong.
(c) To promote, foster, develop and assist medical and allied profession in the study of and the acquisition, dissemination and application of knowledge and information concerning clinical nutrition and allied subjects for public benefit.
(d) To stimulate public interest and provide public education in the importance of parenteral and enteral nutrition in various clinical settings and related subjects and to assist in keeping the medical profession in Hong Kong up to date in the latest development in the field of medical and scientific research for public benefit.
(e) To encourage, assist and arrange for medical practitioners, scientists, dieticians, nutritionists, students and others to come to Hong Kong for the purposes of research and study and for the purposes of teaching and demonstrating theory and practice related to the causes diagnosis and treatment of nutritional disorders.
(f) To encourage, assist and arrange for medical practitioners, scientists, dieticians, nutritionists, students and others to travel abroad and engage in research study and training and to gain experience in nutritional disorders and their management for public benefit.
(g) To encourage, arrange for and assist medical practitioners, scientists, dieticians, nutritionists, students and others from Hong Kong and from aboard to undertake research in basic sciences of clinical nutrition and nutritional disorders and to acquire training in technique of nutritional support for public benefit.
(h) To encourage, arrange, form, promote, establish and support special dispensary facilities, non-profit making infirmaries, clinics and institutions in clinical nutrition activities.
(i) To arrange or provide monetary assistance for and establish scholarships and make donations to students, medical practitioners, scientists, dieticians, nutritionists, and other persons for the purposes of teaching and demonstrating their professional skill in and knowledge of clinical nutrition.
(j) To undertake all such measures for the care, aid, protection, education, recreation and rehabilitation of persons suffering from diseases as the Council from time to time may determine.
(k) To build, establish, maintain, manage or operate non-profit making hospitals, sanatoria, nursing homes, clinics, dispensaries, laboratories, research units and hostels.