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Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 s 5

Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 s 5

s 5 Unlicensed and unregistered private healthcare facility or service

(1) A person who contravenes section 3 or 4 commits an offence and shall be liable, on conviction— (a) in the case of an individual person— (i) to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years or to both; and (ii) for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction; and (b) in the case of a body corporate, partnership or society— (i) to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit; and (ii) for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction. (2) Where an offence under section 3 or 4 is committed by a body corporate, a partnership or a society— (a) in the case of a body corporate, the person responsible for the body corporate; (b) in the case of a partnership, every partner in the partnership; (c) in the case of a society, its office bearers, shall also be guilty of the offence and shall be liable, on conviction— (aa) to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years or to both; and (bb) for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

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Find Act 586 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 May 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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