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Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · s 5

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s 5Unlicensed and unregistered private healthcare facility or service

(1)

A person who contravenes section 3 or 4 commits an offence and shall be liable, on conviction—

(a)

in the case of an individual person—

(i)

to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years or to both; and

(ii)

for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction;

and

(b)

in the case of a body corporate, partnership or society—

(i)

to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit; and

(ii)

for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(2)

Where an offence under section 3 or 4 is committed by a body corporate, a partnership or a society—

(a)

in the case of a body corporate, the person responsible for the body corporate;

(b)

in the case of a partnership, every partner in the partnership;

(c)

in the case of a society, its office bearers, shall also be guilty of the offence and shall be liable, on conviction—

(aa)

to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years or to both;

and

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(bb)

for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.