Section 18. Persons who may not be registered. 8

18. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 16 and 17, no person,
whose name has been removed whether before or after the appointed day,
from any register kept under this Act or any other law for the time being in
force in India regulating the registration of medical practitioners on the ground
of professional misconduct, shall be entitled to have his name entered in the
register, unless his name is duly ordered to be restored to the register from
which it was so removed.