Section 19

If a registered medical practitioner including a medical officer, believes on reasonable grounds that a child he is examining or treating is physically or emotionally injured as a result of being ill treated, neglected, abandoned or exposed, he shall immediately notify a protector or police officer.

Any registered medical practitioner who fails to comply with subsection

shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

For the purposes of subsection (1), the referral of a child examined by a private medical practitioner to a government medical practitioner on the grounds stated in subsection ( 1), shall be sufficient to satisfy the duty of notification under subsection (1).

If the registered medical practitioner referred to in subsection (1) is a medical officer, he may take the child referred to in that subsection into temporary custody until such time as the temporary custody of the child is assumed by a protector or police officer.

Any conviction under subsection (2) shall for the purposes of section 20

of the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act (Chapter 112), be deemed to be infamous conduct and be dealt with as provided for in that section.

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Steps to be taken in respect of child after medical examination or treatment.