RIGHTS OF REGISTERED PERSONS.—Every registered person is entitled according to his qualifications to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery, or either or any of them as the case may be, and to demand and receive reasonable charges for professional aid, advice, and visits and the cost of any medicine or any medical or surgical appliances rendered or supplied by him to his patients (_ib._, s. 21). No person is entitled to recover such charge unless he shall prove on the trial that he is registered under this chapter. This does not interfere with the sale by qualified druggists or chemists of articles properly belonging to their business (_ib._, s. 22). DEFINITION.—The words “legally qualified medical practitioner” or “duly qualified medical practitioner,” or any other words importing a person recognized by law as a medical practitioner or a member of the medical profession, when used in any act of the legislature or legal or public document mean a person registered under this chapter (_ib._, s. 23). UNREGISTERED PERSONS.—No person shall be appointed as a medical officer, physician, or surgeon, in any branch of the public service, or in any hospital or other charitable institution, unless he be registered under the provisions of this chapter (_ib._, s. 24). No certificate required from any physician or surgeon or medical practitioner is valid unless the signer be registered (_ib._, s. 25). OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.—For a person without registration or license to practise physic, surgery, or midwifery for hire, gain, or hope of reward, or wilfully or falsely pretend to be a physician, doctor of medicine, surgeon, or general practitioner, or to take or use any name or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer that he is registered, or to profess by public advertisement, card, circular, sign, or otherwise to practise physic, surgery, or midwifery, or to give advice therein or in anywise to lead people to infer that he is qualified to practise physic, surgery, or midwifery, is punishable with a forfeiture of $20 for each day that he so practises or leads people to infer that he is practising (_ib._, s. 26). On trial of such cause the burden of proof as to the license or right of the defendant to practise physic, surgery, or midwifery is on the defendant (_ib._, s. 28). If a person wilfully procures or attempts to procure registration by making or producing, or causing to be made or produced, a false or fraudulent representation or declaration, he, and all persons knowingly aiding or assisting therein, are each punishable with a forfeiture of not less than $100 (_ib._, s. 30). To wilfully and falsely pretend to be or take or use any name or description implying registration, is punishable with a forfeiture not exceeding $100 (_ib._, s. 31). Suits under this chapter are not to be begun after one year from the date of the offence or cause of action (_ib._, s. 32).