Transitional provision
13.—(1)  Any person who immediately before 8th December 2001 was practising any specified traditional Chinese medicine activity in Singapore shall be deemed to be a qualified person for purposes of section 24 of the Act in respect of that specified traditional Chinese medicine activity from 28th January 2002 until such time as he is registered as a traditional Chinese medicine physician under these Regulations or until 31st December 2003, whichever is the earlier.
(2)  In this regulation, “specified traditional Chinese medicine activity” means —
(a)the diagnosis, treatment, prevention or alleviation of any disease or any symptom of a disease or the prescription of any herbal medicine; and
(b)the regulation of the functional states of the human body,
on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine.