The Scope of the Law and the Right to Practise
The Law on Medical Activity governs the legal relations between the subject of independent medical practice, the paramedic and state authorities, natural persons and legal entities. The right to independent medical practice belongs to a citizen of Georgia or another state or a stateless person who has graduated from a state-accredited higher medical institution and received a confirming state certificate as the law establishes. It exists only in the specialty indicated in the certificate, save statutory exceptions. There is also a prohibition: the right may not be held by a person whom a court has deprived of the right to practise medicine under the law on combating crimes against sexual freedom and inviolability.