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 sub-section (1) causes the death of any person, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years where such act causes grievous hurt.