Section 230
Prohibition Of Conducting Medical Treatment By Person Who Has Not Obtained Licence
(1) No person, other than a person who has,
upon having acquired the specified educational qualification in
medicines, obtained from the lawful competent authority a licence
for medical treatment, shall provide medical services to, carry out
surgery on any organ of human body of, administer or prescribe any
kind of drug to, or otherwise conduct medical treatment of, any
person.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
nothing shall bar a person who has gained knowledge on medical
treatment from a long experience from administering, with due care,
such drug of general nature to a patient suffering from a minor
disease as not causing any specific adverse impact on any human
organ of such patient, or conducting medical treatment by
conducting operation of a minor wound, ecthyma.
(3) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the
offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of
imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not
exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
(4) The offender shall be liable to the sentence of
imprisonment for life where any act of providing medical service,
conducting surgery or administering drug in contravention of subsection
(1) causes the death of any person, and to a sentence of
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imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years where such act
causes grievous hurt.