A person who for remuneration practises health service or dispenses medicines or medicinal cures, without having a valid, current permit and licence from the appropriate authorities,
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 271
Practising Health Service or Pharmacy without a Permit and Licence · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of practising health service or pharmacy without a permit and licence, a Class 2 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 month and not more than 6 months, or a fine of 5,001 – 20,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 1,000 Nakfas.
A person who for remuneration, practises veterinary surgery or treatment of livestock, without having a valid, current permit and licence from the appropriate authorities,
is guilty of practising veterinary medicine without a permit and licence, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.
Nothing in this Article shall be deemed to make an offence, a casual advice, aid or services rendered in cases of an emergency, or out of kindness or devotion and free of charge, or to the delivery in such conditions of proven and innocuous natural or traditional remedies.