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Qualified practitioner's certificate.- Notwithstanding anything in any law for the time being in force,- (a) the expression 'legally qualified medical practitioner' or ‘duly qualified medical practitioner' or any word importing a person recognised by law as a medical practitioner or a member of the medical profession shall in all Acts or other provisions having the force of law in the 1[State of Himachal Pradesh] and relating to matters in List-II or List-III of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India, includes a practitioner registered in Part-I or Part-II of the register; (b) a certificate required by any Act to be issued by any medical practitioner or medical officer shall be valid if such certificate has been signed and issued by a practitioner registered in Part-I or Part-II of the register; Provided that a certificate of illness may also be signed and issued by any practitioner registered in Part III of the register; (c) a practitioner registered in Part-I or Part-II of the register shall be eligible to hold any appointment as medical officer in any Ayurvedic or Unani dispensary or hospital supported by or receiving a grant from the Government and treating patients according to the Ayurvedic system or Unani system or in any public establishment, body or institution dealing with any such system; and (d) a registered practitioner shall be entitled to use substances in their crude or manufactured form or preparations containing such substances, provided their pharmaceutical action in