Medical Registration Act |
(CHAPTER 174) |
(Original Enactment: Ordinance 23 of 1953)
REVISED EDITION 1985 |
(30th March 1987) |
An Act for the provisional registration of medical practitioners. |
[27th June 1953] |
Short title |
1. This Act may be cited as the Medical Registration Act. |
Interpretation |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
[1956 c. 76.] |
Establishment of Medical Council |
Constitution of Medical Council |
4.—(1) The Medical Council shall consist of —
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President of Medical Council |
5.—(1) The President of the Medical Council shall be elected for a term of 3 years by the members of the Medical Council from among its members.
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Meetings and quorum of Medical Council |
6.—(1) The Medical Council shall meet at such times and such places as the President of the Medical Council may appoint.
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Registrar |
7.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be a Registrar of Medical Practitioners (referred to in this Act as the Registrar).
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Register |
8.—(1) The Registrar shall cause a register (referred to in this Act as the register) to be kept containing the names, addresses and qualifications of registered medical practitioners and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
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Persons entitled to registration |
9.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the following persons shall be entitled to be registered under this Act:
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Full registration in medical register not to be granted without proof of experience |
10. A person shall not become registered, otherwise than by way of provisional registration, unless —
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Certificate of experience in approved hospital |
11.—(1) A certificate for the purposes of section 10(a) shall not be granted in respect of any person unless after passing a qualifying examination he has been engaged in employment in a resident medical capacity in one or more approved hospitals or approved institutions for such period as may be prescribed or in such other capacity as the university or other corporation empowered to grant a Singapore diploma may approve (referred to in this Act as approved capacity) and for such period as may be prescribed.
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Experience required for holders of Commonwealth or foreign diplomas |
12. The matters as to which the Medical Council shall be satisfied for the purposes of section 10(b) are —
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Provisional registration |
13.—(1) Subsections (2) to (5) shall have effect for enabling persons desirous of obtaining certificates under section 11, or of satisfying the Medical Council of the matters specified in section 12(a), to be employed as mentioned in section 11(1).
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Evidence of qualification to be given before registration and entry of additional qualifications |
14.—(1) No degree or qualification shall be entered on the register, either on the first registration or by way of addition to a registered name, unless the Registrar is satisfied by such evidence as he may consider proper that the person claiming the degree or qualification is entitled thereto.
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Application for registration |
15.—(1) Any person entitled to be registered under this Act may apply to the Registrar for registration.
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Annual retention fee |
16.—(1) Subject to this section, a person who is registered under this Act shall on or before 30th September in each year pay to the Medical Council such annual retention fee as may be prescribed by the Medical Council with the approval of the Minister for the year commencing on 1st January next following.
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Assessor to Medical Council |
17.—(1) For the purpose of advising the Medical Council on questions of law arising in proceedings before it under the provisions of this Act, there shall in all such proceedings be an assessor to the Medical Council who shall be appointed by the Medical Council and shall be an advocate and solicitor of not less than 10 years’ standing.
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Publication of list of registered medical practitioners |
18.—(1) The Registrar shall as soon as may be after 1st January of every year prepare and publish in the Gazette a list of the names, addresses, qualifications and dates of the qualifications of all persons whose names appear in the register on 1st January immediately preceding the publication of the list in the Gazette.
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Privileges of registered persons and disabilities of unregistered persons |
19.—(1) Every person registered under this Act 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 any medical or surgical appliances rendered or supplied by him to his patients.
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Medical certificates |
20. 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 Act shall be valid unless signed by a person registered under this Act. |
Definition |
21. The words “legally qualified medical practitioner” or “duly qualified medical practitioner” or any words importing a person recognised 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 person registered under this Act. |
Power of Council to order removal of names from register |
22.—(1) The Medical Council may upon such evidence as it may require order the removal from the register of the name of any person, whether provisionally registered or otherwise, who —
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Power of Council to strike name off register |
23.—(1) If any person registered, whether provisionally or otherwise, under this Act is convicted of any heinous offence or, after due inquiry by the Medical Council, is deemed by the Council to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect, the Medical Council may order the name of that person to be removed from the register.
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Appeal against removal from register |
24.—(1) Any person, whether provisionally registered or otherwise, aggrieved by the removal of his name from the register under section 23 may, within one month of the notice given under section 23(2), appeal to the High Court against the removal and on any such appeal the High Court may give such directions in the matter as it thinks proper, including any directions as to the costs of the appeal.
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Alterations in the register |
25. The Registrar shall, from time to time, insert in the register any alteration which may come to his knowledge in the name or address of any person registered, whether provisionally or otherwise, under this Act. He shall also insert such alterations in the qualifications, additional qualifications and other particulars in the register and remove therefrom the name of such a person, as under this Act are required to be altered or removed. |
Penalty for unlawfully using title implying qualification or practising without being registered |
26. Any person who wilfully and falsely pretends to be qualified, or takes or uses any name or title implying that he is qualified, to practise medicine or surgery or, not being registered or provisionally registered or exempted from registration under this Act, practises or professes to practise or publishes his name as practising medicine or surgery shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 for each offence and to a further fine of $50 for every day during which the offence continues. |
Exemption from registration |
27. All medical officers of the armed forces or of any visiting forces lawfully present in Singapore serving on full pay in Singapore and all ships’ surgeons while in discharge of their duties shall be exempted from registration and shall be entitled to all the privileges of registered medical practitioners under this Act. [31/71] |
Malay, Chinese and Indian systems of treatment |
28. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or prevent the practice of systems of therapeutics according to Malay, Chinese or Indian method. |
Regulations |
29. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Medical Council may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations to prescribe anything which under this Act is required to be prescribed, and generally to carry out the objects and purposes of this Act. |
Medical practitioners registered in Malaysia |
30. Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Act, a medical practitioner registered under the corresponding provisions of any written law for the time being in force in Malaysia relating to the registration of medical practitioners and who holds a diploma or degree entitling him to registration under section 9(1)(a) or (b) shall be deemed to be registered in like manner and subject to the same qualifications, conditions and restrictions (if any) under the corresponding provisions of this Act. |
Savings |
31. Every medical practitioner who was registered under the provisions of the Medical Registration Ordinance, repealed by this Act, at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a registered medical practitioner under the provisions of this Act. [1936 Ed.] |
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