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Qualifications to practise
13. Subject to section 66 —(a) a person must not practise medicine or do any act as a medical practitioner unless the person is registered under this Act and has a valid practising certificate; and[Act 34 of 2020 wef 01/07/2022] (b) a person who is not so qualified is called in this Act an unauthorised person.
No remuneration recoverable by unauthorised persons
14. Subject to the provisions of this Act, a person is not entitled to demand, claim, accept, receive or retain or sue for or recover by any means any charge, fee, disbursement, expense or any remuneration —(a) for or in connection with any medical or surgical advice, service, attendance or treatment or any operation performed; or (b) for any medicine which the person has prescribed and supplied, unless at the time of rendering such services the person is registered under this Act and has a valid practising certificate.
Medical certificates
15. A certificate or any other document required by any written law to be signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner given after 3 April 1998 is not valid unless signed by a person who is registered under this Act and has a valid practising certificate.
Legally qualified or duly qualified medical practitioner
16. In any written law —(a) “legally qualified medical practitioner”; (b) “duly qualified medical practitioner”; or (c) any expression importing a person recognised by law as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, is to be construed to mean a person who is registered under this Act and has a valid practising certificate.
Unauthorised person acting as medical practitioner
17.—(1) Any unauthorised person who —(a) practises medicine; (b) wilfully and falsely pretends to be a duly qualified medical practitioner; (c) practises medicine or any branch of medicine, under the style or title of a physician, surgeon, doctor, licentiate in medicine or surgery, bachelor of medicine, or medical practitioner, or under any name, title, addition or description implying that he holds any diploma or degree in medicine or surgery or in any branch of medicine; (d) advertises or holds himself out as a medical practitioner; or (e) contravenes section 13 or 14, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $200,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both. (2) It is a defence to a prosecution under subsection (1) if the defendant proves that —(a) he practised a system of therapeutics according to Malay, Chinese or Indian method; and (b) he did not in any way represent himself as a duly qualified or registered medical practitioner.
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