Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke has set fire to his medical practising certificate, and vowed to continue to advise terminally ill patients about how to take their own lives.

The Medical Board of Australia had set out 25 conditions for the prominent campaigner to comply with if he wanted to remain a practising doctor.

Stoush with Medical Board: Dr Philip Nitschke. Credit:Glenn Campbell

They included not giving advice or information on the suicide drug Nembutal or on how to suicide, making a commitment not to sell or provide Nembutal purity testing kits and removing his name from the co-authored Peaceful Pill Handbook.

Dr Nitschke would also have had to refer any patient who intended to suicide to a mental health professional regardless of whether they presented signs of mental illness.