Section 14: Practising fees.

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, no medical practitioner or dental surgeon shall practise as a medical practitioner or dental surgeon, as the case may be, in any year unless he has paid to the Council in respect of that year the appropriate practising fees prescribed hereunder-
(a) in the case of a medical practitioner or dental surgeon of not less than 10 years' standing, N100.00;
(b) in the case of medical practitioner or dental surgeon of less than 10 years' standing, N50.00;
(c) in the case of a house officer, N25.00; and
(d) in the case of a medical practitioner or dental surgeon with limited registration, N200.00.
(2) A medical practitioner or dental surgeon during his service year in the National Youth Service Corps Scheme shall be exempted from the payment of practising fees.
(3) The Council may, with the approval of the Minister from time to time, vary the practicing fees prescribed under subsection (1) of this section.
(4) The Council shall share the aggregate amount collected as practising fees during the year as follows-
(a) 70 per cent to the Nigeria Medical Association; and
(b) 30 per cent to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
(5) Any medical practitioner or dental surgeon who in respect of any year and without paying the prescribed practising fees practises as such shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction-
(a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine of twice the prescribed practising fees; and
(b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine of not less than ten times the prescribed practising fee, and if the medical practitioner or dental surgeon is in the employment of any person, that person shall also be guilty of an offence and punished in like manner as the medical practitioner or dental surgeon unless he proves that the failure to pay the practising fee was without his knowledge, consent or connivance.