Medical Practitioners Act 2007

Persons entitled to sign medical certificates.

109.— (1) Subject to subsection (2), every certificate which is required for any purpose by or under any enactment or any statutory instrument to be signed by any physician, surgeon, licentiate in medicine and surgery or other medical practitioner shall, on and after the commencement of section 3 , be signed by a registered medical practitioner and no such certificate signed on or after that commencement by a person who is not a registered medical practitioner shall be of any validity or effect.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not operate to prevent a person who is not a registered medical practitioner from signing a certificate if any enactment or any statutory instrument requires or permits the person to sign the certificate in a capacity other than the capacity of physician, surgeon, licentiate in medicine and surgery or other medical practitioner and that person is of that other capacity.

(3) In this section, “certificate” includes a prescription.