"medical practitioner"

means—

(a)at a place in the Republic, a person registered as such under the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act 56 of 1974; or
(b)at a place outside the Republic, a person who is entitled to practise as such under the law in force in that place;

[Definition substituted by section 1(e) of Act No. 5 of 1976]