Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act · 1984 Revised Edition
Section 25
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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 .
dentist
"dentist" means any person professing to practise dentistry or holding himself out as ready and will-ing to treat patients for gain;
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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Medical Practitioners and Dentists
Malay and other Asian systems allowed
Terms defined in s 2
dentist
Defined · s 2"dentist" means any person professing to practise dentistry or holding himself out as ready and will-ing to treat patients for gain;