Section 14

is proved to the satisfaction of the Board to be deceased;

has not supplied the Board an address in Malaysia at which he is to be found;

has failed to renew his certificate of registration;

is in the opinion of the Board guilty of improper conduct;

wilfully supplied fraudulent or incorrect particulars or information in his application for registration or under section 19, as the case may be;

was registered through error as to his qualification for registration;

is of unsound mind or by reason of some other infirmity is, in the opinion of the Board, not a fit person to remain on the register;

is an undischarged bankrupt;

has been found guilty of an offence which, in the opinion of the Board, renders him unfit to remain on the register;

or

has been found guilty of an offence under this Act.

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the Board may proceed to remove from the register the name of any person who fails to respond within one month of the despatch of a registered letter to his last-known address requiring him to furnish such information as the Board may deem fit.

The Board shall not remove from the register the name of a person under any of paragraphs (1)(d) to (j) without giving the person an opportunity to be heard personally or by counsel but where the person fails to avail himself of such opportunity or chooses not to be heard within one month of being notified as provided in subsection (2) of an intention to remove his name from the register, the Board may proceed to so remove his name.

Medical Assistants (Registration)

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Publication of removal of name from register and cancellation of certificate of registration