A local authority shall, upon application, supply forms of certificate for use under the last preceding section free of charge to any medical practitioner practising in their district, and shall pay to a medical practitioner for each certificate duly sent by him under that section a fee of two shillings and sixpence if the case occurs in his private practice, and a fee of one shilling if the case occurs in his practice as medical officer of any public body or institution.
Where the medical practitioner attending a patient is himself the medical officer of health of the district, he shall be entitled to the fee to which, if he were not the medical officer of health, he would have been entitled in respect of a certificate sent by him to the medical officer.