Malaysia legislation
Section 20
Section 20
(2)
Upon such application and payment, the Registrar shall issue a certificate (to be styled “annual practising certificate”) with terms and conditions determined by the Council authorizing the applicant to practise as a medical practitioner during the year for which the certificate is issued.
(3)
Subject to this Act, the annual practising certificate shall be in force until 31 December of the year in respect of which it is issued.
(4)
Any fully registered person who fails to apply for an annual practising certificate in the manner and within the period laid down in subsection (1), may, on making an application in such form and on payment of such additional fee as may be prescribed, be granted an annual practising certificate for the ensuing year, if the application is
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made during the month of December of any year, or for the remainder of the year, if the application is made on or after 1 January of any year.
(5)
Upon being fully registered under section 14, a person who desires to practise as a medical practitioner shall immediately comply with subsection (1).
(6)
An annual practising certificate and an application therefor shall specify the address of the principal place of practice and all other places of practice of the applicant, except in the case of a registered medical practitioner without a fixed place of practice (locum tenens)
where the fact shall be so stated and approved by the Council, and any change in any such address shall be notified by the practitioner to the
Registrar and an endorsement of such change on the annual practising certificate obtained from the Registrar within thirty days of such change.
(7)
A fully registered medical practitioner who practises medicine and who—
(a)
does not possess a current and valid annual practising certificate in respect of himself;
(b)
is in partnership with a fully registered person not having such a certificate;
(c)
has in his employ a fully registered person not having such a certificate; or
(d)
is employed to carry on a medical practice on behalf of a person not having such a certificate, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and he shall not be entitled to recover any fee, reward, disbursement or cost incurred during the time when he or any other person as aforesaid has not had an annual practising certificate.
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List of fully registered medical practitioners issued with annual practicing certificates