section 26
Prohibition of practice in Siddha Medicine by person not registered
The Tamil Nadu Siddha System of Medicine (Development and Registration of Practitioners) Act, 1997Health199740 sections6 chapters
Chapter V PENALTIES
Statutory text
- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force,-
- (a) no person other than a person registered under section 18 shall practice Siddha medicine; Explanation.-For the purpose of this clause- (i)
- (A) a person who holds himself out as being able to, or who by any advertisement, demonstration, exhibition or teaching offers or undertakes, by any means or method whatsoever, to diagnose, treat or operate according to Siddha medicine, or to give Siddha medicine for any ailment, disease, injury, pain, deformity or physical condition or prescribes Siddha medicine or other remedy according to Siddha system of medicine shall be deemed to practise Siddha medicine;
- (B) "advertisement" includes any word, letter, notice, circular, picture, illustration, model, sign playboard and board or other document any announcement made orally or by any means of producing or transmitting light, sound, smoke or other audible or visible representation;
- (ii) a person who-
- (A) mechanically fits or sells lenses, artificial eyes, limbs or other apparatus or appliances; or
- (B) is engaged in the mechanical examination of eyes for the purpose of constructing or adjusting spectacles, eye-glasses or lenses; or
- (C) practices physiotheraphy or electrotheraphy or chiropody or naturopathy or hydropathy or Yogic healing; or
- (D) does domestic administration of family remedies; or
- (E) being registered under the Dentists Act, 1948 limits his practice to the act of dentistry; or
- (F) being a nurse, midwife, health visitor, auxiliary nurse-midwife registered under the Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Act, 1926, or a dhai attending to labour cases, shall not be deemed to practice Siddha medicine.
- (b) no person other than a registered practitioner, unless authorised by the Government in this behalf, shall be entitled to-
- (i) sign or authenticate a birth or a death Certificate or a medical or a physical fitness certificate or any other certificate required by any law to be signed or authenticated by a duly qualified medical practitioner;
- (ii) give evidence at any inquest or in any court of law as an expert under section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 on any matter relating to medicine surgery or midwifery;
- (c) except with the special sanction of the Government, no person other than a registered practitioner shall hold any appointment as physician, surgeon or any other office (by whatever designation called) in any hospital, asylum, infirmary, dispensary, lying-in-hospital, sanatorium or other similar institution dealing with Siddha medicine or with Siddha and modern medicines.
- (2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section
- (1) shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one --- --- with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
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