Singapore legislation
Section 9
Section 9
Persons entitled to registration
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the following persons shall be entitled to be registered under this Act:
any person who holds a Singapore diploma;
any person holding any other degree, diploma or licence in medicine and surgery which was granted by any university, corporation, college or other body, outside Singapore, included in the Schedule but subject to the limitation appearing, where applicable in column 3 thereof; and
any person holding any other degree, diploma or licence granted by any university, corporation, college or other body outside Singapore which is not included in the Schedule whom the Minister may, after consulting the Medical Council, by order declare to be entitled to be registered under this Act, subject to such conditions and restrictions, as may be prescribed in such order.
(2)
Before advising the Minister under subsection (1)(c), the Medical Council may satisfy itself, by such evidence as it may require, that the person holds a degree, diploma or licence that is not lower in standard than that required of a person who holds a Singapore diploma and, if the Medical Council is not so satisfied, it may require that person to undergo and to pass an examination conducted or arranged by the Medical Council, or by such other person or persons as it may for this purpose appoint.
(3)
Any person who is in Singapore for the purposes of teaching, research or postgraduate study in medicine or surgery under such training scheme as may be approved by the Minister in any institution recognised, from time to time, by the Medical Council for that purpose or any person who possesses medical or surgical knowledge, experience and skill which the Medical Council considers to be of international standing or are such as to have special value to the people of Singapore, or who, not having any of the qualifications mentioned in subsection (1), possesses other qualifications which, in the opinion of the Medical Council are adequate for purposes of registration under this Act, may have his name entered in the register for so long as he continues to engage himself exclusively in teaching or in research or in postgraduate study in medicine or surgery, as the case may be, under an approved training scheme or in such medical or surgical capacity as the Medical Council may specify:Provided that registration under this subsection shall be for a period not exceeding two years which may be renewed, at the discretion of the Medical Council, for a further period or periods each not exceeding one year.
(4)
The entitlement of any person to be registered under subsection (3) may be subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Medical Council may impose.
(5)
The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, after consulting the Medical Council, vary or amend the Schedule to include therein any medical qualification granted by any university, corporation, college or other body which he has decided should be recognised as entitling the holder to be registered under this Act.