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“certificate” means either the certificate of provisional registration, certificate of full registration, certificate of registration as a specialist, practicing certificate, temporary practicing certificate or any other

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certificates as may be determined by the Council from time to time and issued under the Act;

“Chief Executive Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer of the

Council appointed under section 4C who shall act as the Secretary of the Council;

“Council” means the Malaysian Medical Council established under section 3;

“Director General” means the Director General of Health, Malaysia;

“fully registered” means fully registered under section 14;

“fully registered medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner issued with a certificate of full registration under section 14;

“Fund” means the Malaysian Medical Council Fund established under section 4H;

“healthcare facility” means any premises in which one or more members of the public receive healthcare services”;

“houseman training” means the period of training in resident medical practice for the purpose of being fully registered medical practitioner;

“member” means a member of the Malaysian Medical Council established under section 3;

“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for health;

“practising certificate” means the annual practising certificate issued under section 20;

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;

“President” means the President of the Malaysian Medical Council;

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“Professional Indemnity Cover” means a financial security for a registered medical practitioner in a professional liability action;

“provisionally registered” means provisionally registered under section 12;

“provisionally registered medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner issued with certificate of provisional registration under section 12;

“public services” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 132 of the

Constitution and, in addition, it also means the service of any local authority or the service of any statutory authority exercising powers vested in it by federal or State law, and the expression “public service”

shall be construed accordingly;

“qualification” means any diploma, degree, fellowship, membership, licence, authority to practise, letters, testimonial, certificate or other status or document granted by any university, corporation, college or other body, or by any department of, or persons acting under the authority of, the government of any country or place in or outside

Malaysia;

“recognized specialist qualification” means a qualification conferred by any recognized training institution;

“recognized training institution” means a higher education provider as defined under section 2 of the Malaysian Qualification Agency

Act 2007 [Act 679] for the purpose of registration under section 4 of this Act;

“Register” means the Malaysian Medical Register under section 11;

“registered” means provisionally registered under section 12 or fully registered under section 14, as the case may be;

“registered medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner issued with provisional registration under section 12 or full registration under section 14;

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“Registrar” means the Registrar of Medical Practitioners referred to in section 10;

“Specialist” means a fully registered medical practitioner under section 14C;

“temporary practicing certificate” means the temporary practicing certificate issued under section 16;

“traditional and complementary medicine” means a form of health-related practice designed to prevent, treat or manage ailments or illness or preserve the mental and physical well-being of an individual and includes such practices as traditional Malay medicine, traditional

Chinese medicine, traditional

Indian medicine, homeopathy, and complementary therapies, but excludes medical or dental practices used by a registered medical or dental practitioner.