16. (1) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Registrar shall
prepare and maintain thereafter a register of medical practitioners for the
State, in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2) The register shall he in such form, and may be divided into such
parts, as may be prescribed. The register shall include the full name, address,
and qualifications of the registered practitioner, the date on which each
qualification was obtained, and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(3) Any person who possesses any of the qualifications specified in the
Schedule to this Act or in the First, Second or Third Schedule to the Indian
Medical Council Act, 1956, shall, subject to any conditions laid down by or
under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, at any time on an application made
in the prescribed form to the Registrar and on payment of ?
[the prescribed fee]
and on presentation of his degree, diploma, licence or certificate, be entitled
to have his name entered in the register:
?. These words were substituted for the words "a fee of fifty rupees" by Guj. 7 of 1995, s.2.
XLV of 1860.
Other
employees
of the
Council.
XLV of 1860.
Preparation
of register.
CII of 1956.
?1968: Guj. 10] The Gujarat Medical Council Act, 1967.
Provided that the name of an applicant who is unable to present his degree,
diploma, licence or certificate may be entered in the register, if he satisfies
the President that he holds such degree, diploma, licence or certificate but
cannot for sufficient cause present the same with his application.
(4) The name of every person-
(a) who, being entered, on or after the 1st May 1961 in the register
duly kept under section 6 of the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 as in force in
the Bombay area of the State (hereinafter referred to as "the Bombay
Area Register") stands entered in the said register on the day immediately
preceding the appointed day, or
(b) who stands entered in the register duly kept under section 6 of
the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra
area of the State, on the day immediately preceding the appointed day,
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.
(5) (a) Every person, whose name was entered on a date prior to the
1st May 1961 in the Bombay Area Register and continued in such register on
the day immediately preceding the appointed day, shall be entitled to have
his name continued in the register prepared under this Act in accordance with
provisions of clause (b).
(b) Within a period of three months from the appointed day or such
further period as the State 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, calling upon every person to
whom clause (a) applies, to pay to the Registrar in the prescribed manner
a fee of five rupees if he desires to continue his name on the register under
this Act, and shall also send individual notice for a like purpose by registered
post to every such person at his last known address in such form as may be
prescribed. 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:
Provided that, if any application for continuance of the name so removed
is made to the Registrar within a period of six months from the last date on
which such fee should have been paid, the name so removed may be reentered in the register on payment of a fee of ten rupees.
(6) After the last date for payment of the fee of five rupees under clause
(b) of sub-section (5) has expired and the register prepared in accordance
with the foregoing provisions is ready, the Registrar shall publish a notice in
the Official Gazette and such newspapers as the Council may select, about
the register having been prepared, and the register shall come into force from
the date of the publication of such notice in the Official Gazette.
(7) Every registered practitioner shall be given a certificate of registration
in the prescribed form. The registered practitioner shall display the certificate
of registration in a conspicuous part in the place of his practice and if he has
more than one such place in any one of them.
Section 16 • The Gujarat Medical Council ACT, 1967.
Section 16. Preparation of register. 6
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