s 20 Annual practising certificate
(1) Any fully registered person who desires to practise as a medical practitioner after the thirty-first day of December of any year shall, not later than the first day of December of that year, make an application in the prescribed form and shall pay the prescribed fee for a certificate to practise as a medical practitioner during the ensuing year. (2) Upon such application and payment, the Registrar shall issue a certificate (to be styled “annual practising certificate”) authorizing the applicant to practise as a medical practitioner during the year for which the certificate is issued. (3) Subject to this Act, the annual practising certificate shall be in force until the thirty-first day of December of the year in respect of which it is issued. (4) Any fully registered person who fails to apply for an annual practising certificate in the manner and within the period laid down in subsection (1), may, on making an application in such form and on payment of such additional fee as may be prescribed, be granted an annual practising certificate for the ensuing year, if the application is made during the month of December of any year, or for the remainder of the year, if the application is made on or after the first day of January of any year. (5) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, a fully registered person may practise as a medical practitioner without an annual practising certificate up to the thirty first day of December of the year in which he obtains full registration under section 14 but he shall for the purpose of this Act and any regulations made thereunder be deemed to have an annual practising certificate for that period. (6) An annual practising certificate and an application therefor shall specify the address of the principal place of practice and all other places of practice of the applicant, and any change in any such address shall be notified by the practitioner to the Registrar and an endorsement of such change on the annual practising certificate obtained from the Registrar within thirty days of such change. (7) A fully registered medical practitioner who practises medicine, surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology and who— (a) has not an annual practising certificate in respect of himself in force; (b) is in partnership with a fully registered person not having such a certificate; (c) has in his employ a fully registered person not having such a certificate; or (d) is employed to carry on the business of a medical practitioner on behalf of a person not having such a certificate, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and he shall not be entitled to recover any fee, reward, disbursement or cost incurred during the time when he or any other person as aforesaid has not had an annual practising certificate.