The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963

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    "title": "The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 6 of 1964",
    "act_year": 1963,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"appointed day\" means the date on which this Act comes into force;\n(b) \"Ayurvedic system of medicine\" or \"Ayurvedic system\" means the Ashtang Ayurvedic system of medicine, whether supplemented or not by such modem advances as are consistent with the fundamental principles of Ayurveda [***]\n(c) \"Board\" means the Gujarat Board of Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine established and constituted under this Act;\n[***]\n(f) \"enlisted practitioner\" means a practitioner whose name is for the time being entered in the list;\n[***]\n(h) \"Homoeopathy\" means the system of medicine founded by Dr. Samual Hahnemann which includes the Biochemic therapy as propounded by Dr. Schussler and the expression \"Homoeopathic\" shall be construed accordingly;\n[***] (j) \"list\", except in the expression \"periodical list\", means the list of practitioners prepared and maintained under section 18; (k) \"member\" means a member of the Board [***] ; (l) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (m) \"President\" means the President of the Board; [***] (o) \"recognised qualification\" means any of the qualifications specified in the Schedule; (p) \"register\" , means the register of practitioners prepared and maintained under section 17; (q) \"registered practitioner\" means a practitioner whose name is for the time being entered in the register; (r) \"Registrar\" means the Registrar appointed under section 16; (s) \"rules\" means rules made under section 37; (t) \"Schedule\" means the Schedule appended to this Act; (u) \"State\" means the State of Gujarat; (v) \"Unani system of medicine\" or \"Unani system\" means the \"Unani system\" of medicine; [***] (2) The expression \"to practise any system of medicine\" with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to hold oneself out as being able to diagnose, treat, operate or prescribe medicine or any other remedy or to give medicine for any ailment, disease, injury, pain, deformity or physical condition or by any advertisement, demonstration, exhibition or teaching to offer or under-take by any means or method whatsoever to diagnose, treat, operate or prescribe medicine or any other remedy or to give medicine for any ailment, disease, injury, pain, deformity or physical condition:\n(j) \"list\", except in the expression \"periodical list\", means the list of practitioners prepared and maintained under section 18;\n(k) \"member\" means a member of the Board [***] ;\n(l) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(m) \"President\" means the President of the Board;\n[***]\n(o) \"recognised qualification\" means any of the qualifications specified in the Schedule;\n(p) \"register\" , means the register of practitioners prepared and maintained under section 17;\n(q) \"registered practitioner\" means a practitioner whose name is for the time being entered in the register;\n(r) \"Registrar\" means the Registrar appointed under section 16;\n(s) \"rules\" means rules made under section 37;\n(t) \"Schedule\" means the Schedule appended to this Act;\n(u) \"State\" means the State of Gujarat;\n(v) \"Unani system of medicine\" or \"Unani system\" means the \"Unani system\" of medicine;\n[***]\n(i) mechanically fits or sells lenses, artificial eyes, limbs or other apparatus or. appliances; or\n(ii) is engaged in the mechanical examination of eyes for the purpose of constructing or adjusting spectacles, eye-glasses or lenses; or\n(iii) practises physio-therapy or electro-therapy or chiropody or naturopathy or hydropathy or yogic healing; or\n(iv) without personal gain furnishes medical treatment or does domestic administration of family remedies; or\n(v) being registered under the Dentists Act, 1948, limits his practice to the art of dentistry; or\n(vi) being a nurse, midwife or health visitor .registered or enlisted under the Bombay Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act, 1954, or any other corresponding law for the time being in force in the State, or a Dai, attends on a case of labour, shall not be deemed on that account only to practise any system of medicine.\n(i) \"advertisement\" includes any word, letter, notice, circular, picture, illustration, model, sign, placard, board or other document and any announcement made orally or by any means of producing or transmitting light, sound, smoke, or other audible or visible representation; and\n(ii) \"physio-therapy\" means treatment of any ailment, disease, injury, pain, deformity or physical condition by massage or other physical means, but does not include bone-setting.\nChapter II\nConstitution, Functions and Powers of the Board [***]",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution and incorporation of Board.",
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            "content": "(a) four members shall be nominated by the State Government, out of whom at least three shall be registered practitioners;\n(b) seven members shall be elected by the registered practitioners as follows, that is to say,-\n(i) three members shall be elected by registered practitioners who hold any of the recognised qualifications, from amongst themselves, and\n(ii) four members shall be elected by the remaining registered practitioners, from amongst themselves:\n(i) in respect of the constitution of the Board for the first time under this Act, the President and members thereof shall be nominated by the State Government;\n(ii) the President and other members so nominated shall hold office for such period not exceeding three years in the aggregate as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette , specify.\n[4.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Term of office.",
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            "content": "(a) [subject to the provision of clause (b), the term of office of a member of the Board] , shall be a period of five years commencing from the date of the notification published under sub-section (1);\n[b the members nominated under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 3 shall hold office during the pleasure of the State Government.]",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Casual vacancies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Resignation.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Disqualification, disability and removal from office.",
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            "content": "(a) who is an undischarged insolvent;\n(b) who has been adjudged to be of unsound mind by a competent court;\n(c) whose name has been removed from the register; or\n(d) who is a full time officer or servant of the Board [***] , shall be eligible to be elected or nominated or to continue as a member.\n(a) absents himself from three consecutive- meetings of the Board [***] without such reasons as may, in the opinion of the State Government, in the case of the President [***] and in the opinion of the Board [***] in the case of any other member thereof, be sufficient; or\n(b) becomes, or is found to be, subject to any of the disqualifications specified in sub-section (1),",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Meetings of Board [***] .",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Proceedings of meetings and validity of acts.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Fees and allowances to President, [***] and members.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Income and expenditure of Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) fees received from practitioners;\n(b) grants received from the State Government, if any; and\n(c) any other sums received by the Board.\n(a) salaries and allowances of the Registrar and the other staff maintained by the Board;\n(b) fees and allowances paid to the members of the Board;\n(c) such other expenses as are necessary for performing its duties and functions under this Act.\n13.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Powers, duties and functions of Board.",
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            "content": "(a) to maintain the register, the list and to provide for the registration and of enlistment of 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 registered and enlisted practitioners;\n(d) to reprimand a registered or an enlisted practitioner, to suspend or remove him from the register or the list, as the case may be, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Board, be necessary or expedient;\n(e) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions, as are laid down in this Act, or may be prescribed.\n15.",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Registrar and other employees of Board [***] .",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nRegistration and Enlistment",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Preparation of register.",
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            "content": "(i) in the Bombay area of the State of Gujarat on the 4lh November 1941 but his name was not entered in the register maintained under the Bombay Medical Practitioners Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938); or\n(ii) in the Saurashtra area of the State of Gujarat on the 1st November 1951 but his name was not entered in the register maintained under the Bombay Medical Practitioners Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) as adapted and applied to the said area, shall, on an application made in the prescribed form within a period of four years from the appointed day and accompanied by a fee of ten rupees and the prescribed documents, be entitled to have his name entered in the register.]\n(a) that he has been regularly practising the Ayurvedic or Unani system of medicine in a merged territory or a merged area from a period of not less than ten years before the 1st May 1956, or\n(b) that he has been regularly practising the Ayurvedic or Unani system of medicine in the hutch area of the State for a period of not less than ten years before the appointed clay, shall, on an application made in the prescribed form within a period of one year from the appointed day and accompanied by a fee of ten rupees and the prescribed documents be entitled to have his name entered in the register.\n(1) the expression \"merged territory\" means the area of a merged State as defined in the Bombay Merged States (Laws) Act, 1950 (Bombay IV of 1950) and included in the Bum. State of Gujarat from the 1st May 1960, and\n(2) the expression \"merged area\" means any area included in the then existing province of Bombay by the Bombay (Enlargement of Area and Alteration of Boundaries) Order, 1947 or the Bombay (Enlargement of Area and Alteration of Boundaries) Order. 1948 or as the case may be the Bombay Enlargement of Area and Alteration of Boundaries) (Amendment) Order, 1948 and included in the State of Gujarat from the 1st May 1960.\n(a) that he has been regularly practising the Ayurvedic or Unani system of medicine for a period of not less than ten years immediately before the appointed day and that his name continued to be included in the list kept under section 18 of the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) in its application to the Bombay area of the State or of the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State for the period as aforesaid, or\n(b) that he has been regularly practising the Ayurvedic or Unani system of medicine as an enlisted practitioner, and-\n(i) that he has been practising that system as such practitioner for not less than ten years, in any part of the State, or\n(ii) that the aggregate of the period for which he has been regularly practising that system as such practitioner and the period for which he had been in regular practice of that system immediately before his name was entered in the list prepared under this Act, by virtue of his name having been entered in the list kept under section 18 of the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) in its application to the Bombay area of the State or of the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, in any part of the State, is not less than ten years, shall, on an application made in the prescribed form and accompanied by the prescribed fee and the prescribed documents, be entitled to have his name entered in the register.\n(a) the full name and residential address of the registered practitioner:\n(b) the date of his admission to the register maintained under this Act; and if he be a person who was, on the day immediately preceding the appointed day, registered in a register kept under any of the laws referred to in subsection (4), the date of his admission to that register;\n(c) the qualifications specified in the Schedule possessed by him, if any, and the date on which he obtained each qualification and the authority which conferred or granted it; and\n(d) such further particulars as may be prescribed.\n(b) Such certificate shall be valid only till the name of the registered practitioner is not removed from the register.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Preparation of list.",
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            "content": "(a) the name of every person who on the 1st May 1960 continued to be included in the list kept under section 18 of the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) in its application to the Bombay area of the State or the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State and hose name is not entered in the register under sub-section (5), (6) or (7) of section 17;\n(b) the name of every person whose case is not covered by clause (a) but who makes an application to the Registrar in the prescribed form accompanied by a fee of Rs. 10 and the prescribed documents within a period of one year from the appointed day, and who proves to the satisfaction of the Committee appointed under sub-section (8) of section 17, that he has been practising regularly any system of medicine (other than Homoeopathic system of medicine),\n(a) in a merged territory or a merged area from a period of not less than five years before the 1st May 1956, or\n(b) in the Kutch area of the State for a period of not less than five years before the appointed day.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Persons not entitled to Registration enlistment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) as in force in the Bombay area of the State;\n(ii) the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State; or\n(iii) any other law for the time being in force in India or any part thereof regulating the registration of practitioners of medicine.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Removal of names from register or list.",
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            "content": "(a) issue a letter of warning to such practitioner; or\n(b) direct the name of such practitioner either to be removed from the register for such period as may be specified in the direction, or to be removed from the register permanently.\nExplanation.\n(i) a cognizable offence by a registered practitioner which involves moral turpitude, and for which he is convicted by a criminal court, or\n(ii) a cognizable offence by a registered practitioner subject to military law for which he is convicted under the Army Act, 1950 (Bombay CLVI of 1950); or\n(iii) any conduct which, in the opinion of the Board, is infamous in relation to the medical profession particularly under any code of ethics, if any, prescribed by the Board.\n(a) the register maintained under the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 (Bombay VI of 1912) or any corresponding law for the time being in force in any part of the State; or\n(b) the register or list maintained under any law for the time being in force in relation to the qualifications and registration of Homoeopathic practitioners in any part of the State.\n(a) enforcing the attendance of any person, and examining him on oath;\n(b) compelling the production of documents; and\n(c) issuing of commissions for the examination of witnesses.\n(i) an Advocate enrolled under the Indian Bar Councils Act, 1926 (XXXVIII of 1926), or the Advocates Act, 1961 (XXV of 1961); or\n(ii) an attorney of a High Court.\n(b) In every inquiry under this section, the advice to be tendered by an assessor to the Board or to the Committee, as the case may be, on any question of law, shah be tendered by him in the presence of the registered practitioner whose misconduct is under inquiry or the person representing him at the inquiry, and if the advice is tendered after the Board has begun to deliberate as to its findings, such practitioner or person shall be informed what advice the assessor has tendered. Such practitioner or person shall also be informed if in any case the Board 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 such remuneration as may be-prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Maintenance of register and list.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Renewal fee.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) If the renewal fee be not paid by the due date, the Registrar shall remove the name of the defaulting practitioner from the register. On such removal, the certificate of registration issued to the practitioner shall be deemed to have been cancelled:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Publication of Periodical list of registered and enlisted practitioners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the names of all persons for the time being entered or re-entered in the register, and not included in any subsisting periodical list already printed and published; and\n(b) the names of all practitioners included in any subsisting periodical list, whose names have since been removed on account of any reason whatsoever from and not re-entered in the register; and\n(c) any other amendments to the subsisting periodical list.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. No refund of fees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "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 a member of the medical profession shall, in all Acts of the State Legislature in force in the State, and in all Central Acts (in their application to the State) 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) any certificate, required by or under any Act from any medical practitioner or medical officer shall be valid if such certificate has been signed by a registered practitioner;\n(iii) it shall be lawful for every registered or enlisted practitioner, to use in full after his name the words \"Registered Medical Practitioner\", or \"Enlisted Medical Practitioner\", as the case may be;\n(iv) every registered practitioner shall be exempt, if he so desires, from serving on an inquest;\n(v) a registered practitioner shall be eligible to hold any appointment as a physician, surgeon, or other medical officer in any Ayurvedic or Unani dispensary, hospital, infirmary or lying-in-hospital, supported by, or receiving a grant from, the State Government and treating patients according to the Ayurvedic and Unani systems of medicine or in any public establishment, body or institution dealing with such system of medicine.\nChapter IV\n[Recognition of Qualifications]\n26 to 28.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Amendment of Schedule.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nGeneral Provisions Applicable to All Medical Practitioners",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Prohibition of medical practice by persons not registered or enlisted.",
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            "content": "(i) the register or the list maintained under this Act;\n(ii) the register or the list prepared and maintained under any law for the time being in force in relation to the qualifications and registration of Homoeopathic practitioners in any part of the State; or\n(iii) the register prepared and maintained under the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 (Bombay VI of 1912), the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State or any other corresponding law for the time being in force in any part of the State; or\n(iv) the Indian Medical Register prepared and maintained under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (CII of 1956),\n(i) for a first offence with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees;\n(ii) for a second offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months and with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees; and\n(iii) for every subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Registered practitioners competent to give valid certificates or expert evidence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) this Act;\n(ii) the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 (Bombay VI of 1912), or the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State or any other corresponding law for time being in force in any part of the State;\n(iii) any law for the time being in force in relation to the qualifications and registration of Homoeopathic practitioners in any part of the State; or\n(iv) the Indian Medical Council, 1956 (CII of 1956)",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Conferring, granting or issuing colourable imitations of degrees, diplomas or licences to be an offence.",
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            "content": "(a) a university established by law,\n[***]\n(c) an authority specified or notified under the Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916 (VII of 1916),\n(d) an authority authorised under any law for the time being in force in relation to the qualifications and registration of Homoeopathic practitioners in any part of the State, or\n(e) an authority empowered or recognised as competent, by the State Government to confer, grant or issue any degree, diploma, licence; certificate or any other like award,\n(i) which states or implies that the holder, grantee or recipient thereof is qualified to practise any system of medicine, or\n(ii) which is identical with, or is a colourable imitation of, any degree, diploma, licence, certificate or award granted by a body or institution specified in clause (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of this sub-section.\n(i) for a first offence, with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees;\n(ii) for a subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Prohibition against addition of any title, description, etc. to name of an person, unless authorised to do so.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) he actually holds such degree, diploma, licence or certificate or any other like award, and\n(b) such degree, diploma, licence or certificate or any other like award,\n(i) is recognised by any law for the time being in force in India or in any part thereof, or\n(ii) has been conferred, granted or issued by a body or institution referred to in sub-section (1) of section 32, or\n(iii) has been recognised by the Medical Council of India.\n(i) for a first offence, with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees;\n(ii) for a subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Liberty to practise in rural areas.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if he has commenced practice in that system in any village in the said area prior to a date on which a practitioner registered under the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 (Bombay Vi of 1912) or under the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) (or any law corresponding thereto) for the time being, in force, has commenced, and is in regular practice in, medicine in that village, and\n(b) so long as he continues to so practise in that village place of practice.\n(i) on the first day of March, 1939, if such local area forms part of the Bombay area of the State;\n(ii) on the first day of March, 1951, if such local area forms part of the Saurashtra area of the State; or\n(iii) on the 31st day of July 1949, if such local area forms part of the Kutch area of the State.\nExplanation 2.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Offences under Act to be cognisable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Indemnity to persons acting under the Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for the whole or any part of the State, and\n(b) to provide for all or any matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed by rules.\n38.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Control of State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VII\nRepeal and Transitional Powers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Repeal and savings.",
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            "content": "(a) the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) in its application to the Bombay area of the State of Gujarat;\n(b) the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State; and\n(c) the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) in its application to the Kutch area of the State;\n(a) the Board of Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine and the Faculty of Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine constituted for the Bombay area of the State under sub-section (2) of section 3C of the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938), and\n(b) the Board of Indian System of Medicine and the Faculty of Indian System of Medicine constituted under section 3 of the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, shall stand dissolved and all the members thereof shall vacate office.\n(a) (i) under the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938), in its application to the Bombay area of the State of Gujarat; or\n(ii) under the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, and\n(b) in force immediately before the appointed day, shall be deemed to be the register and the list respectively under this Act, until the register and the list are prepared under section 17 or 18, as the case may be.\n41 and 42.",
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            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Provision regarding Registrar.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) under section 14 of the Bombay Medical Practitioner' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) in its application to the Bombay area of the State;\n(b) under section 14 of the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) as adapated and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State;",
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            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Vesting of rights, duties, etc.",
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            "content": "(1) all rights of the Boards dissolved under sub-section (2) of section 40 (hereinafter in this section referred to as \"the dissolved Boards\") shall on the appointed day vest in the Board constituted under sub-section (6) of section 3 (hereinafter in this section referred to, as \"the Board\");\n(2) all the property, movable or immovable, which on the day immediately preceding the appointed day vested in the dissolved Boards shall subject to all limitations and conditions as were in force on that day, vest in the Board;\n(3) all sums due to the dissolved Boards on any account shall be recoverable by the Board which shall be competent to take any measure or institute any proceedings which it would have been open to the dissolved Boards to take or institute if this Act had not come into operation;\n(4) all debts, liabilities and obligations incurred by or on behalf of the dis-solved Boards, immediately before the appointed day and subsisting on the said day, shall be deemed to have been incurred by the Board in exercise of the powers conferred on it by this Act and shall continue in operation accordingly;\n(5) all proceedings and matters pending before any authority or officer immediately before the appointed day under any of the Acts repealed under section 40 shall be deemed to be transferred to and continue before the corresponding authority under this Act competent to entertain such proceedings and matters;\n(6) all prosecutions instituted by or on behalf of or against any of the dissolved Boards and all suits and other legal proceedings instiuted by or against any of the dissolved Boards or any officer of such Boards on behalf of the dissolved Boards, pending on the appointed day, shall be continued by or against the Board:\n(7) save as otherwise provided in section 43 in respect of the Registrar, all other officers and servants in the employ of the dissolved Boards immediately before the appointed day, officers and servants employed by the Board and shall, until provision is otherwise made in accordance, with the provisions of this Act, receive salaries and allowances and be subject to the conditions of service or retirement benefits which they were entitled to or subject to on the appointed day:\n(i) the service rendered by such officers and servants before the appointed day shall be deemed to be service rendered under the Board,\n(ii) if in the opinion of the Board, the services of any officer or servant are , not necessary or suitable to the requirements of service under it, it may, with the previous approval of the State Government, discontinue the services of any such officer or servant and any officer or servant whose services are so discontinued shall be entitled to receive from the Board such leave, pension, gratuity or other benefits as he would have, if this Act had not been passed, been entitled to receive on being invalided out of service of the respective dissolved Boards and may receive such additional amount by way of compensation as the Board may with the sanction of the State Government determine.\n(8) The provisions of clauses (1) to (7) shall mutatis mutandis apply to the Faculties dissolved under sub-section (2) of section 40 as if, in the said clauses, there had been substituted, for the words \"the dissolved Boards\" and the words \"the Board\", the words \"the dissolved Faculties\" and words \"the Faculty of Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine\", respectively in the application of the said clauses to the Faculties dissolved under sub-section (2) of section 40.\nThe Schedule\n( See Sections 2(c), [17, 21 and 29] )\n( See Sections 2(c), [17, 21 and 29] )\nQualifications the possession of which entitles a person to registration\nQualifications the possession of which entitles a person to registration\nPart A\nQualifications in the Ayurvedic system of Medicine, Shuddha Ayurvedic Courses\nQualifications in the Ayurvedic system of Medicine, Shuddha Ayurvedic Courses\nSr. No.\nSr. No.\nGranting Authority\nGranting Authority\nQualification\nQualification\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\n1\n1\n2\n2\n3\n3\n4\n4\n1.\nThe Committee for Shuddha Ayurvedic Course appointed under\n\t\t\t\t\tBombay Government Resolution in Local Self Government and Public\n\t\t\t\t\tHealth Department No. ADR-1253, dated the 17th September 1953.\nD. S. A. C. (Bombay).\n2.\nThe Committee for Shuddha Ayurvedic Course for\n\t\t\t\t\tthe Gujarat State constituted under Gujarat Government\n\t\t\t\t\tResolution, Local Self Government & Public Health Department\n\t\t\t\t\tNo. SAC-1060-19845-B-III, dated the 28th September, 1960.\nAyurved Pravin styled as such under Gujarat\n\t\t\t\t\tGovernment Resolution referred to in the preceding column.\nD. S. A. C. (Gujarat)\n3.\nPost Graduate Training Centre in Ayurved,\n\t\t\t\t\tJamnagar, constituted under Gujarat Government Notification,\n\t\t\t\t\tHealth & Industries Department No. ADR. 1159/5024-B-III\n\t\t\t\t\tdated the 10th February 1961.\nH. P. A. Certificate\nH. P. A. (Jam).\n4.\nRajkiya Sanskrit Maha Vidyalaya, Baroda State.\nAyurved-Visharad\n-\n5.\nM. S. University, Baroda.\nAyurved-Visharad\n-\n6.\nBoard of Indian Medicine, Saurashtra.\nAyurved-Visharad\n-\nPart B\nQualifications in the Unani system of medicine\nQualifications in the Unani system of medicine\nSr. No.\nSr. No.\nGranting Authority\nGranting Authority\nQualification\nQualification\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\n1\n1\n2\n2\n3\n3\n4\n4\n1.\nBoard of Indian Medicine, U.P.\nFazil-et-Tib; Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery.\nF. M. B. S.\n2.\nAligarh University, Aligarh.\nBachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery.\nB. U. M. S.\n3.\nFaculty of Ayurvedic and Unani systems of\n\t\t\t\t\tmedicine constituted under the Bombay Medical Practitioners Act,\n\t\t\t\t\t1938.\nMahire-Tib-o-Jarahat.\nD. U. S. F.\n4.\nBoard of Examiners in Unani.\nMahire-Tib-o-Jarahat.\nM. T. J. (Bor.) (This qualification shall be a\n\t\t\t\t\trecognised qualification if granted in 1942 or 1943).\n5.\nAyurvedic and Unani Tabibi College, Delhi.",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Fazil-e-tib-o  Jarahat",
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            "content": "F. T. J. (Delhi).\nPart C\n(a) the Inter Science (B-group) examination as qualification for admission, or\n(b) the Matriculation or S.S.C. Examination or its equivalent examination as qualification for admission, provided the course is of a duration of six or more years.\nSr. No.\nSr. No.\nGranting Authority\nGranting Authority\nQualification\nQualification\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\n1\n1\n2\n2\n3\n3\n4\n4\n1.\nBanares Hindu Banares.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Ayurvedacharya Medicines and Surgery",
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            "content": "A. M. S. (Ben).\n2.\nAyurvedacharya with Modern medicine &\n\t\t\t\t\tSurgery\nA. M. M. S. (Ben).\n3.\nAvurvedacharya with Bachelor of Medicine and\n\t\t\t\t\tSurgery.\nA. M. B. S.(Ben) (This qualification shall be\n\t\t\t\t\trecognised only when granted in or after 1952).\n2.\nFaculty of Ayurvedic & Unaiii Systems of\n\t\t\t\t\tMedicine, Bombay, constituted under. Bombay Medical\n\t\t\t\t\tPractitioners Act, 1938.\nGraduate of the Faculty of Ayurvedic Medicine\nG. F. A. M. (Bombay) (This qualification shall\n\t\t\t\t\tbe recognised only if granted in and after 1st January 1956).\n3.\nFaculty of Ayurvedic & Unani Systems of\n\t\t\t\t\tMedicine, Gujarat.\nGraduate of the Faculty of Ayurvedic Medicine\nG.F.A.M. (Gujarat)\n4.\nUniversity of Poona.\nBachelor of Ayurvedic Medicines and Surgery.\nB.A.M.S (Poona).\n5.\nUniversity of Gujarat.\nBachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery.\nB.A.M.S. (Gujarat)\n6.\nBoard of Indian Medicines, U.P.\nAyurvedacharya Bachelor of Medicine &\n\t\t\t\t\tSurgery.\nA. M. B. S.\n7.\nBoard of Ayurvedic & Unani System of\n\t\t\t\t\tMedicines, Delhi.\nAyurvedacharya. Dhanvantary.\nB. I. M. S. (Delhi).\nPart D\nSr. No.\nSr. No.\nGranting Authority\nGranting Authority\nQualification\nQualification\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\nAbbreviations for registration and conditions\n\t\t\t\t\tfor registration, if any\n1\n1\n2\n2\n3\n3\n4\n4\n1.\nFaculty of Ayurvedic & Unani Systems of\n\t\t\t\t\tMedicines, Bombay constituted under the Bombay Medical\n\t\t\t\t\tPractitioners'Act, 1938.\nAyurved Visharad\nD. A. S. F. (Bom).\n2.\nU.P. Ayurved Mahavidyalaya Patan (Baroda State)\nGrihit Ayurveda Shastra\nL.A.M. (Patan) (This qualification shall be\n\t\t\t\t\trecognised only when granted before 1942).\n3.\nGurukal University, Kangri.\nAyurvedalankar.\nA. L. (lung) (This qualification shall be\n\t\t\t\t\trecognised only when |(a) granted after 1926 but before\n\t\t\t\t\t1952. (b) granted after 1952 to students admitted by the\n\t\t\t\t\tUniversity before June 1952).\n4.\nBoard of Indian Medicine, U. P.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Diploma of Indigenous Medicine.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. I. M.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Diploma of Indigenous Medicine &\n\t\t\t\t\tSurgery.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. I. M. S.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Bachelor of Indian Medicine and Surgery.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "B. I. M. S.\n5.\nFaculty of Ayurvedic & Unani Systems of\n\t\t\t\t\tMedicine, Gujarat.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Fellow of Indian Medicine.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "F. I. M. (Delhi).",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Bhishagacharya Dhanvantary.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "D. I. M. S. (Delhi).\n6.\nPrabhuram Ayurved College, Bombay.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Graduate of Prabhuram Ayurved College.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "G. P. A. C.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Licentiate of Prabhuram Ayurved College.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "L. P. A. C.\n7.\nVidarbha Board of Ayurvedic and Unani System of\n\t\t\t\t\tMedicine constituted under the Central Provinces and Berar\n\t\t\t\t\tAyurvedic and Unani Practitioners Act, 1947 (C. P. and Berar Act\n\t\t\t\t\tIV of 1948).\nBachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery.\nB.A.M.Section (Vid.).\n8.\nBoard of Indian Medicine, Hyderabad (Deccan),\n\t\t\t\t\tconstituted under the rules made under the Medical Act (Hyd. I\n\t\t\t\t\tof 1 312 Fasli).\nAyurved-Visharad of the Government Ayurvedic\n\t\t\t\t\tCollege Hyderabad.\nA. V. B. (Hyd.)",
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        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 6 of 1964",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1963",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963",
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