Section 30. Certain privileges of persons enrolled on Parts A and B of the Register.

(1) No Acupuncture practitioner, other than a registered Acupuncture practitioner whose name is entered in Parts A and B of the Register, shall be competent to hold any appointment as a medical officer in Acupuncture or teacher in any Acupuncture hospital, asylum, infirmary, dispensary or lying-in-hospital set up under any law for the time being in force or in any Affiliated Acupuncture institution. (2) An Acupuncture practitioner registered in Part A of the Register shall be entitled to give an opinion in any matter relating to Acupuncture system of therapy at any inquest or in any court of law as expert under section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (I of 1872).