Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act · s 25

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25.
(1) Any person who wilfully and falsely takes or uses Penalty any name, title or addition, implying a qualification to prac-tise medicine, surgery, or dentistry, or, not being registered, or not being exempted from being so registered under the provisions of this Act, practises, professes to practise, or publishes his name as practising medicine, surgery, or dentistry, or, not being a registered dentist under the provi-sions of this Act, hires or employs a person to assist him to practise dentistry, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for 5 years and a fine .
(2) When a person is convicted of an offence under this section, the court may order any drugs, poisons, medi-cines, needles, syringes, or surgical, medical, dental or di-agnostic instruments or appliances, used by, belonging to, or found in possession of, the person convicted, to be for-feited, or to be destroyed, or otherwise disposed of.

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s 25

(1)

Any person who wilfully and falsely takes or uses Penalty any name, title or addition, implying a qualification to prac-tise medicine, surgery, or dentistry, or, not being registered, or not being exempted from being so registered under the provisions of this Act, practises, professes to practise, or publishes his name as practising medicine, surgery, or dentistry, or, not being a registered dentist under the provi-sions of this Act, hires or employs a person to assist him to practise dentistry, shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for 5 years and a fine .

(2)

When a person is convicted of an offence under this section, the court may order any drugs, poisons, medi-cines, needles, syringes, or surgical, medical, dental or di-agnostic instruments or appliances, used by, belonging to, or found in possession of, the person convicted, to be for-feited, or to be destroyed, or otherwise disposed of.

Medical Practitioners and Dentists

Malay and other Asian systems allowed