1987 Ed.]
Medical Registration
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(3) Where a practising certificate is issued pursuant to an application made during the course of a year in respect of that year, the certificate shall, subject to subsection (5), be in force from the time of its issue until the end of that year.
(4) Where a practising certificate is issued pursuant to an application made during the course of a year in respect of the following year, the certificate shall, subject to subsection (5), be in force for a period of 12 months commencing on 1 January in that following year.
(5) If at any time during the currency of a practising certificate issued under this section, the holder of the certificate ceases to be registered under this Ordinance, or, as the case may be, ceases to be exempt from registration under section 29(d), the certificate shall thereupon be deemed to be cancelled.
(6) Any person who is required under this section to be the holder of a practising certificate under this section shall be deemed to have obtained the certificate when he has duly applied to the Registrar and paid the prescribed fee for the issue of the practising certificate.
(7) This section applies to-
(a) any person registered under section 14; and
(b) any person deemed to be a registered medical practitioner
by virtue of section 29(d),
but does not apply to-
(i) any person provisionally registered under section 12;
(ii) any person deemed to be registered as a medical practitioner by virtue of section 29(a), (b) or (c);
(iii) any person in respect of whom the Governor has given a consent under section 30;
(iv) any person to whom section 31 relates; or
(v) any qualified person in so far as he renders medical or surgical treatment to a person in an emergency.
(8) A person who is required under this section to be the holder of a practising certificate shall not be entitled to recover any fees, costs or other remuneration unless he was, at the time when the cause of action arose, the holder of a valid practising certificate.
(Added, 70 of 1975, s. 7)
20B. (1) If any registered medical practitioner contravenes subsection (1) of section 20A, the amount of the prescribed fee payable by him under subsection (2) of that section shall be recoverable as a civil debt by complaint made in the name of the Registrar to a magistrate.
Recovery of practising fees.