Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Act

(CHAPTER 333A)

(Original Enactment: Act 34 of 2000)

REVISED EDITION 2001

(31st December 2001)

An Act to provide for the registration of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and for purposes connected therewith.

[7th February 2001: except sections 24 and 25 ;

1st January 2002: sections 24 and 25 ]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Act.

(2) Sections 24 and 25 shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“acupuncture” means the stimulation of a certain point or points on or near the surface of the human body through any technique of point stimulation (with or without the insertion of needles), including through the use of electrical, magnetic, light and sound energy, cupping and moxibustion, to normalise physiological functions or to treat ailments or conditions of the human body;

“Board” means the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board established under section 3;

“certificate of registration” means a certificate of registration issued by the Board under section 16;

“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board;

“herbal medicine” means any material or product known or claimed to have therapeutic or other health benefits which contains either raw or processed ingredients of plant, inorganic or animal origin;

“Inquiry Committee” means a committee appointed under section 26I(1);

[Act 8 of 2019 wef 01/04/2020]

“institution of higher learning” includes any college and polytechnic;

“interim order” means an order made under section 26H(1);

[Act 8 of 2019 wef 01/04/2020]

“investigator” means a person appointed under section 28;

[Act 8 of 2019 wef 01/04/2020]

“member” means a member of the Board;

“modify”, in relation to any condition of registration, means —

(a)	delete or replace such a condition; or
(b)	add a condition of registration; [Act 8 of 2019 wef 01/04/2020]

“practice of traditional Chinese medicine” means any of the following acts or activities:

(a)	acupuncture;
(b)	the diagnosis, treatment, prevention or alleviation of any disease or any symptom of a disease or the prescription of any herbal medicine;
(c)	the regulation of the functional states of the human body;
(d)	the preparation or supply of any herbal medicine on or in accordance with a prescription given by the person preparing or supplying the herbal medicine or by another registered person;
(e)	the preparation or supply of any of the substances specified in the Schedule;
(f)	the processing of any herbal medicine; and
(g)	the retailing of any herbal medicine,

on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine;

“practising certificate” means a practising certificate issued under section 17;

“prescribed practice of traditional Chinese medicine” means any type of practice of traditional Chinese medicine that has been declared by the Minister by order made under section 14(1) as a prescribed practice of traditional Chinese medicine;

“processing” means any type of treatment or preparation applied to a herbal medicine or mixture of herbal medicines based on traditional Chinese medicine before it is being —

(a)	offered for sale;
(b)	supplied to a patient; or
(c)	used for the manufacture of any herbal medicine;

“Register” means the Register of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners kept under section 12;

“registered person” means a person who is registered under section 14 for the carrying out of any prescribed practice of traditional Chinese medicine;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of the Board, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;

[Act 5 of 2018 wef 01/04/2018]

“registration” means registration under section 14 for the carrying out of any prescribed practice of traditional Chinese medicine;

“retailing” means the selling of any herbal medicine to a person who obtains the herbal medicine other than for the purpose of wholesale.

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