Singapore legislation
Regulation 25
Regulation 25
Exemption in relation to advertisement
Subregulation 1
Subject to sub-paragraph (2), sections 31 and 31A of the Act do not apply to a person who advertises, or causes to be advertised, any skill of, or service provided by, a specified healthcare professional that —
relates to the treatment of any ailment, disease, injury, infirmity or condition affecting the human body; and
is for the purpose of performing, or comes within the scope of, the act, activity or service mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) that corresponds to the specified healthcare professional.
Subregulation 2
Sub-paragraph (1) applies only if the information contained in the advertisement —
is factually accurate and capable of being substantiated; and
is not exaggerated, false, misleading or deceptive.
Subregulation 3
In this paragraph, “specified healthcare professional” means an individual who is —
specified in the second column of items 1 to 6 in the First Schedule and is carrying out any act or activity, or providing any service, specified opposite in the first column of that Schedule;
an allied health professional who has a professional qualification in any of the allied health professions specified in the First Schedule to the Allied Health Professions Act 2011 that is not a prescribed allied health profession under that Act, and is carrying out any act or activity, or providing any service, within the scope of that allied health profession; or
a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who is registered under the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Act 2000 and holds a valid practising certificate for a prescribed practice of traditional Chinese medicine under that Act, and is carrying out any act or activity, or providing any service, in that type of practice.