Section 9: No person shall be entitled to recover any charge in any

Court of law, for any medical or surgical advice or attendance, or for the performance of any operation as a medical practitioner or dentist, or for any medicine which he shall have prescribed and supplied, or for any services performed as an obstetrician, within Sierra Leone after the coming into force of this Ordinance, unless he was at the time registered under this Ordinance; but all registration effected within three months after the coming into force of this Ordinance shall be deemed to relate back to the time of such coming into force.