Privileges of registered medical practitioners. 15. (1) Every registered medical practitioner shall be entitled to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery and to recover in due course of law reasonable charges for professional aid, advice and visits and the value of any medicine or medical or surgical appliances rendered, made or supplied by him to his patients.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sections 29 and 30, no person shall be entitled to recover in any Court any such charges as are referred to in subsection (1) unless at the date when such charges accrued he was a registered medical practitioner:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall affect the practice of midwifery by any person duly licensed in that behalf under the provisions of any law in force in the Colony.
Medical certificates. 16. No certificate or other document required by any written law to be signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner given after the commencement of this Ordinance shall be valid unless signed by a person who at the date of such signing was a registered medical practitioner.
Definition. 17. The words “legally qualified medical practitioner” or “duly qualified medical practitioner” or any words importing a person recognized by law as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession, when used in any written law with reference to such persons, shall be construed to mean a registered medical practitioner.
Power of Council to order removal of names from register. 18. The Council may order the removal from the register of the name of any person who—
- (a) is deceased; or
- (b) is no longer practising medicine, surgery or midwifery in the Colony; or
- (c) has not supplied to the Registrar an address in the Colony at which all notices from the Council may be served on him:
Provided that any person failing to acknowledge within twelve months of the date of despatch the receipt of a registered letter or telegram addressed to him at the last address supplied by him to the Registrar shall be deemed not to have supplied the Registrar with an address under this paragraph.
