Section 24 — MEDICAL ACT 1971

(a)

is not or is no longer attending houseman training; or

(b)

has contravened any condition or restriction imposed upon him, the Council may revoke the provisional registration of such person and order his name to be removed from the Register.

(2)

The Council may remove from the Register the name of any fully registered medical practitioner who—

(a)

is proved to the satisfaction of the Council to be a deceased person;

(b)

is proved to the satisfaction of the Council incapable, by reason of physical or mental infirmity, or profound incompetence, of carrying out his duties as a medical practitioner;

(c)

has not applied to the Registrar for renewal of his practising certificate for six years consecutively;

(d)

has been registered through an error as to his qualifications for registration, and was not at the time of his registration entitled to be registered;

(e)

has been registered by fraudulent means;

(f)

has contravened or failed to comply with any condition or restriction imposed by the Council;

(g)

has completed his term or contract with the Malaysian

Government or such body or organization for such period as may be specified and approved by the Council; or

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(h)

has had his registration withdrawn, suspended or cancelled from the Register of medical practitioners maintained in any place outside Malaysia or from any professional register maintained in any place inside or outside Malaysia, and shall make an endorsement accordingly against the medical practitioner’s name in the Register.

(3)

The Registrar shall publish in the Gazette the name of every registered medical practitioner whose name has been removed from the Register.

(4)

For the purpose of satisfying itself that any registered medical practitioner is incapable of carrying out his duties as a medical practitioner under paragraph (2)(b), the Council shall appoint a Fitness to Practise Committee which shall consist of not less than three registered medical practitioners, one of whom shall be a specialist related to the illness, to inquire into each case and to make such recommendations as the Committee deems proper.

(5)

Notwithstanding subsection (4), the Fitness to Practise

Committee may recommend to the Council for restrictions to be imposed in the carrying out of duties by the registered medical practitioner.

Reinstatement of names in Register