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(1) No person other than a Medical Practitioner enrolled in the register of registered practitioners maintained by the Council - (a) shall hold office as physician or surgeon or any other office (by whatever designation called) in Government or in any institution maintained by a local or other authority ; (b) s)lall practise medicine ; (c) shall be entitled to sign or authenticate a medical or fitness ce1tificate or any other certificate required by any law to be signed or authenticaled by a duly qualified medical practitioner ; and ' (d) shall be entitled to give evidence at any inquest or in any Court of Law as an expe1t under section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 or any matter relating to medicine. Central Act. I, f 872. (2) Any person who acts in contravention of any provision of sub-section (1) shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extenc;l to one year or with fine which may extend to one thousand 'rupees or with both.