Privileges of registered practitioners

Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force-

1. (i) a certificate required by law to be given by a medical practitioner shall be valid if it is signed by any registered practitioner belonging to such class of registered practitioners as may be specified by the Government from time to time; and
2. (ii) the expression "legally qualified medical practitioner" or "duly qualified medical practitioner" or any word or expression importing reference to a person, recognized by law as a medical practitioner or as a member of the medical profession, shall, in any Provincial Act as defined in clause

1. (46) of section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (Central Act X of 1897), or in any State Act as defined in clause
2. (59) of the said section 3 or in any Central Act in its application to the State of Tamil Nadu in so far as any such Act relates to any of the matters specified in List II or List III the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, be deemed to include a practitioner, registered or deemed to be registered under clause
   • (a) of sub-section
3. (1) of section 15.