s 13 Experience which a provisionally registered person shall be required to obtain
(1) Subject to this Act and the regulations thereunder, a person who is provisionally registered shall be required to obtain experience as provided in subsection (2) in order to be entitled to apply for full registration under section 14. (1 A ) For the purposes of subsection (2) there shall be established a Board to be known as the Medical Qualifying Board consisting of— (a) the Director General as Chairman; and (b) an equal number of representatives from each of the Faculties of Medicine of the Universities established under the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971, to be determined and appointed by the Minister. (2) The provisionally registered person shall, immediately upon being provisionally registered, engage in employment in a resident medical capacity to the satisfaction of the Medical Qualifying Board for a period of not less than one year in any hospital or institution in Malaysia which is approved by the said Board for the purpose of such employment; four months of such period shall be spent in a resident surgical post, four months in a resident medical post and four months in a resident obstetrical and gynaecological post; at the conclusion of satisfactory service, as certified by the Medical Qualifying Board, under this paragraph, the provisionally registered person shall be entitled to a certificate issued by the Council in the prescribed form as evidence thereof. (3) (Deleted by Act A840). (4) Where, on application in that behalf, a person satisfies the Council that by reason of lasting physical disability he will be or has been prevented from embarking on, or completing, any period of experience of the practice of surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology required for the purpose of subsection (2), the Council may, if it thinks fit, direct that the applicant may for those purposes count in lieu thereof experience of the practice of medicine (in addition to what would otherwise be required in his case for those purposes) acquired in the like manner and for the like period, or, as the case may be, for so much of that period as will have remained uncompleted. (5) (Deleted by Act A840). (6) The Council may exempt from subsection (2) any person who holds any of the qualifications referred to in paragraph 12(1)(a) if the Council is satisfied that such person has had experience which is not less both in character and scope and in length of time than the experience mentioned in subsection (2): Provided that if the Council is further satisfied that such experience has been had in an institution or hospital approved by the institution which granted the qualification, it shall exempt such person from subsection (2): And provided further that if the experience which has been had in an institution or hospital approved by the institution which granted the qualification is only partly of the character and scope mentioned in subsection (2), the Council may exempt such person from subsection (2) in respect of such part only of the period of experience required thereunder as the Council may deem fit. (7) A provisionally registered person shall be deemed to be fully registered under this Act so far as is necessary— (a) to enable him to enter upon and engage in the employment and service mentioned in subsection (2); and (b) for the purpose of any such written law or such other purposes, as the Minister may direct by order published in the Gazette, but not further. (8) A provisionally registered person shall during the period of employment under subsection (2) be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Penal Code. (9) In this section the reference to employment in a resident medical capacity shall be construed as reference to employment in the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology, where the person in question is resident in the hospital or institution where he is employed or conveniently near thereto, and is by the terms of his employment required to be so resident.