s 26 Privileges of fully registered persons and disabilities of unregistered persons
(1) Every person whose name is for the time being borne on the Register as fully registered under this Act shall be entitled, according to his qualifications, to practise medicine, surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology in accordance with the provisions of this Act and to recover in due course of law reasonable charges for professional aid, advice and visits and the value of any medicine or any medical or surgical appliances rendered, made or supplied by him to his patients, provided that at the time of performing any such act he had an annual practising certificate in force. (2) Subject to sections 15, 16 and 34, no person shall be entitled to recover in any court any such charges as are referred to in subsection (1) unless at the date when such charges accrued he was a fully registered medical practitioner and had an annual practising certificate in force: Provided that nothing in this subsection shall affect the practice of midwifery by any person duly authorized in that behalf under the provisions of any law in force in Malaysia or any part thereof.