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The Goa Medical Council Act, 1991
The Goa Medical Council Act, 1991
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Constitution and incorporation of Council.
Section 34. Term of Office.
Section 45. Casual vacancies.
Section 56. Resignation.
Section 67. Disqualification and disability.
Section 78. Meetings of Council.
Section 89. Proceedings of meetings and validity of acts.
Section 910. Powers, duties and functions of the Council.
Section 1011. Executive Committee.
Section 1112. Fees and allowances to members of Council and Executive Committee.
Section 1213. Income and expenditure of Council.
Section 1314. Appointment of Registrar of Council, his duties and functions.
Section 1415. Other employees of Council.
Section 1516. Preparation of register.
Section 1617. Special procedure for registration in certain cases.
Section 1718. Persons who may not be registered.
Section 1819. Fee for and certificate of provisional registration.
Section 1920. Maintenance of register.
Section 2021. Publication of list of registered practitioners.
Section 2122. Removal of names from register.
Section 2223. Removal of registration.
Section 2324. Appeals.
Section 2425. Rights of registered practitioners.
Section 2526. General provisions applicable to medical practitioners.
Section 2627. Penalty for falsely claiming to be registered.
Section 2728. Power to make rules.
Section 2829. Control of Government.
Section 2930. Repeal and savings.
Section 3031. Constitution of new Council.
Section 3132. Provision regarding Registrars.
Section 3233. Powers to remove difficulties.
Section 33
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"content": "(a) to maintain the register, and to provide for the registration of medical practitioners;\n(b) to hear and decide appeals from any decision of the Registrar;\n(c) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners;\n(d) to reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or remove him from the register, or to take such disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary or expedient;\n(e) to exercise such other powers, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions, as are laid down in this Act, or as may be prescribed.",
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"content": "(a) fees received from the practitioners;\n(b) grants received from the Government, if any; and\n(c) any other sums received by the Council.\n(a) salaries and allowances of the Registrar and the staff maintained by the Council;\n(b) fees and allowances paid to the members of the Council and the Executive Committee;\n(c) remuneration paid to the assessors; and\n(d) such other expenses as are necessary for performing the duties and discharging the functions under this Act.",
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"content": "(a) who on the day immediately preceding the appointed day stands registered in the Directorate of Health Services of the Government of Goa under the Decreto No. 34417 dated 21-2-1945 (Art. 130) as in force in the State of Goa shall be entered in the register prepared under this Act, without such person being required to make an application or to pay any fee for this purpose.\n(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (a) within a period of three months from the appointed day or such further period as the Government may allow, the Registrar shall publish a general notice in the Official Gazette and in such newspapers as the Council may select, in such form as may be prescribed and send individual notice by registered post to every such person at his last known address in such form as may be prescribed, calling upon every such person to pay to the Registrar in the prescribed manner a fee of rupees two hundred if he desires to continue his name on the register under this Act. The name of every such person who pays such fee before the expiry of the period of two months from the date of publication of the general notice in the Official Gazette shall be continued on the register, without such person being required to make an application or to pay any other fee for this purpose. If such fee is not paid within time, the Registrar shall remove the name of the defaulter from the register:",
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"content": "(a) issue a letter of warning to the practitioner, or\n(b) direct the name of such practitioner -\n(i) to be removed from the register for such period as may be specified in the direction, or\n(ii) to be removed from the register permanently.\nExplanation.\n(i) the conviction of a registered practitioner by a criminal court for an offence which involves moral turpitude and which is cognizable within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974); or\n(ii) the conviction under the Army Act, 1950 (Central Act 46 of 1950) of a registered practitioner subject to military law for an offence which is cognizable within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974); or\n(iii) any conduct which, in the opinion of the Council is in famous in relation to the medical profession particularly under any Code of Ethics prescribed by the Council or by the Medical Council of India constituted under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (Central Act 102 of 1956) in this behalf.\n(a) enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) compelling the production of documents;\n(c) issuing of commissions for the examination of witnesses.\n(i) an advocate enrolled under the Advocates Act, 1961 (Central Act 25 of 1961) in force; or\n(ii) an attorney of a High Court.\n(b) Where an assessor advises the Council, or the Executive Committee, on any question of law as to evidence, procedure or any other matter, he shall do so in the presence of every party or person representing a party, to the inquiry who appears thereat or if the advice is tendered after the Council or the Executive Committee has begun to deliberate as to its findings, every such party or person as aforesaid shall be informed what advice the assessor has tendered. Such party or person shall also be informed if in any case the Council or the Executive Committee does not accept the advice of the assessor on any such question as aforesaid.\n(c) Any assessor under this section may be appointed either, generally, or for any particular inquiry or class of inquiries, and shall be paid the prescribed remuneration.",
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"content": "(a) on such date after the date of publication of the notice under sub-section (5) of section 16, as the Executive Committee may with the previous sanction of the Government decide, and every five years thereafter, the Registrar shall cause two notices in the prescribed form to be published, at an interval of not less than thirty days, in the Official Gazette calling upon in the manner provided in clause (b) all registered practitioners to make an application to the Registrar for the continuance of their names on the register;\n(b) The Registrar shall, after the publication of the first notice under clause (a), send a notice by registered post enclosing therewith the prescribed form of application to the registered practitioners at their address as entered in the register, calling upon them to return the application to the Registrar for the continuance of their names on the register within forty five days of the date of the notice, together with a fee of rupees fifty. If any of the registered practitioners fail to return such application within the time specified, the Registrar shall issue a further notice to such registered practitioner by registered post after the publication of the second notice under clause (a) enclosing there with the prescribed form of application calling upon him to return the application to the Registrar for the continuance of his name on the register within thirty days of the date of the further notice, together with a fee of rupees one hundred.\n(c) If the application is not made on or before the date fixed by the further notice sent by registered post under clause (b), the Registrar shall remove the name of the defaulter from the register and shall inform him of such removal by registered post:",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Rights of registered practitioners.",
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"content": "(i) the expression \"legally qualified medical practitioner\" or \"duly qualified medical practitioner\" or any word importing a person recognised by law as a medical practitioner or member of the medical profession shall, in all Acts of the State Legislature and in all Central Acts (in their application to the State of Goa) in so far as such Acts relate to any matters specified in List II or List III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India, include a practitioner whose name is entered in the register under this Act;\n(ii) every registered practitioner shall be exempted, if he so desires, from serving on an inquest under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974).",
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"content": "(a) under section 3, the time, place and manner of holding elections of members, the President and the Vice-President;\n(b) under section 8, the manner of convening holding and conducting meetings of the Council;\n(c) under section 10, the other powers, duties and functions of the Council;\n(d) under section 11, the number of members of the Executive Committee, their term of office, the manner of filling casual vacancies, the procedure to be followed and the other powers, duties and functions of the Committee;\n(e) under section 12, the fees and allowances to the members;\n(f) under section 14, the salary, allowances and other conditions of service of the Registrar, the manner of keeping accounts and the supervisory powers and other duties and functions of the Registrar;\n(g) under section 15, the other conditions of service of the staff of the Council;\n(h) under section 16, the form of register, the parts into which it shall be divided and the other particulars it shall include, the forms of application and of general and individual notices, the manner of paying fees, the form of certificate of registration;\n(i) under section 19, the form of application for provisional registration and of certificate for such registration;\n(j) under section 20, the fee for recording change of name or additional qualification in the register or for issue of duplicate certificate of registration.\n(k) under section 21, the form of list of registered practitioners, the particulars to be included and the manner of its publication;\n(l) under section 22, the manner of holding inquiries and the conditions and fee payable for re-entering a name in the register and the remuneration to be paid to an assessor;\n(m) under section 23, the forms of notices and of application for continuance of names on the register;\n(n) under section 24, the manner of hearing and determining appeal by the Council;\n(o) any reasonable fees which may be levied by the Council in addition to those expressly provided for in this Act;\n(p) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act.",
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"Short Title": "The Goa Medical Council Act, 1991",
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