Medical Registration Act 1997 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Registration of Medical Practitioners
24. Provisional registration
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This section has effect for enabling persons desirous of obtaining certificates of experience to be employed as mentioned in section 25(1).
Any person who is qualified to be registered under this Act may, for the purpose of satisfying any requirement as to experience, be provisionally registered for such duration and subject to such conditions or restrictions as the Medical Council may specify, if he produces evidence satisfactory to the Registrar that he has been selected to be engaged in such employment as is mentioned in section 25(1).
Medical Council
“Medical Council” means the Medical Council of Singapore established under section 3(1) of the repealed Medical Registration Act, and by virtue of section 3 of this Act means the Singapore Medical Council;
The Medical Council may cancel the provisional registration of a medical practitioner if —
provisional registration
“provisional registration” means registration by virtue of section 24 and “provisionally registered” is to be construed accordingly;
he fails to comply with any of the conditions or restrictions of his provisional registration; or
the Medical Council is of the opinion, having regard to the report of one or more registered medical practitioners supervising him and the reviews (if any) of the registered medical practitioners or healthcare professionals working with him, that he is unfit or otherwise unable to practise medicine.
The Medical Council must, before proceeding under subsection (2A), notify the registered medical practitioner concerned of its intention to cancel his provisional registration under subsection (2A) and must give the registered medical practitioner an opportunity to submit reasons why his registration should not be so cancelled.
registered medical practitioner
“registered medical practitioner” means a person registered under this Act and includes a person deemed to be so registered under section 72(1);
Any person who is aggrieved by the cancellation of his registration by the Medical Council under subsection (2A) may, within 30 days after being notified of the cancellation, appeal to the Minister whose decision is final.
Any person who is provisionally registered is to be registered in the Register of Provisionally Registered Medical Practitioners and on a person becoming registered otherwise than provisionally his name must be removed from such register.