Malaysia legislation

Section 10

of MEDICAL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2012

Section 10

Section 13 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)

by substituting for subsection (1a) the following subsection:

“(1a)  For the purposes of subsection (2) there shall be established a committee to be known as the Medical Qualifying Committee consisting of the following members:

(a)

the President as Chairman;

(b)

four members of the Council nominated from and representing the recognised local universities and university colleges and appointed by the

Chairman;

(c)

four representatives from the Ministry of Health;

and

(d)

four other members of the Council nominated from those not representing the recognised local universities and university colleges and appointed by the Chairman.”;

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(b)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

by substituting for the word “Board” wherever it appears the word “Committee”; and

(ii)

by substituting for the words “evidence thereof”

the words “determined by the Council from time to time”;

(c)

in subsection (4), by inserting after the word “disability”

the words “or any other reason as determined by the

Council”;

(d)

by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsection:

“(4a)  Notwithstanding paragraph 12(1)(aaa), the

Council may consider any person who is a non citizen and not a spouse of a citizen studying in any recognised local training institution to be provisionally registered for the purpose of obtaining the experience as provided in subsection (2).”; and

(e)

in subsection (9), by substituting for the words “medicine, surgery or obstetric and gynaecology” the word

“Medicine”.

Amendment of section 14