THE ASSAM GAZEITE. EXTRAORDINARY. MARCH 30, 2000 — THE ASSAM GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. MARCH 30. 2000 ASSAM ACT No XXVI OF 1999

315 THE ASSAM GAZEITE. EXTRAORDINARY. MARCH 30, 2000 Unregistered persons not to hold certain appointment and practice medicine etc. and penalty for contravention thereof. Publication and use of annual medical list. (1) No person other than a Medical Practitioner enrolled in the register of registered practitioners maintained by the Council - (a) shall hold office as physician or surgeon or any other office (by whatever designation called) in Government or in any institution maintained by a local or other authority ; (b) s)lall practise medicine ; (c) shall be entitled to sign or authenticate a medical or fitness ce1tificate or any other certificate required by any law to be signed or authenticaled by a duly qualified medical practitioner ; and ' (d) shall be entitled to give evidence at any inquest or in any Court of Law as an expe1t under section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 or any matter relating to medicine. Central Act. I, f 872. Any person who acts in contravention of any provision of sub-section (1) shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extenc;l to one year or with fine which may extend to one thousand ' ' rupees or with both. (1) The Registrar shall, after the expiry of every five years, on or before a date to be fixed in this behalf by the Council, cause to be printed and published a correct list of the names for the . t time being entered in the register of registered practitioners and setting fo1th - (a) all names entered in the register arranged m alphabetical order according to the surnames ; (b) the registered address or appointment of each person whose name is entered in the register ; and ,. !· r Power to make rules. , ( c) the qualifications of each such person represented by the abbreviations therefor and the year in which each such qualification was obtained. (2) The Registrar shall, on the expiry of every year other than the year in which a list is printed and published under·: sub-section (1), on or before a date to be fixed in this behalf by the Council, cause to be printed and published a list supplementary thereto, containing additions and alterations in the register of registered practitioners since the publication of the list under sub-section (1) or the supplementary list under sub-section (2). Every Court shall presume that any person whose name is entered in the latest list printed and published under sub-section (1) read with the list supplementary thereto, if any, printed and published under. sub-section (2) is duly registered under this Act, and that any , ,p ,person whose name is not so entered is not registered under this Act : Provided that, in the case of any person whose name does not appear in the latest list printed and published under sub-section (1) read with the lists supplementary thereto, if any, printed and published under sub-section (2), a certified copy signed by the Registrar of the entry of the name of such person in the register of registered practitioners, shall be conclusive evidence that such person is registered under this Act. (1) The State Government may make out the purposes of this Act. to carry In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for or any of the following matters, namely :-- (a) to regulate nomination under clauses (b), (c) and election under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 3; (b) the manner of election of Vice President under sub-section (5) of section 3; (c) to prescribe the form of the register of registered practitioners to be maintained under this Act; (d) to regulate the utilisation of fees under section 20 and Powers to make regulations. audit thereof; and ., (e) to regulate the procedure to be followed by the Council in -- (i) conducting any enquiry referred to in clause (b) of section 17, or section 23; and ' ,. ' (ii) disposing of appeals against the decision · of the Registrar prefeITed under section 2 L

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