CHAPTER VI

REGISTRATION

21. 1) The Council shall cause to be maintained in the prescribed manner a register of practitioners of homoeopathy to be known as the State Register of homoeopathy in such form and containing such particulars as may be prescribed. 2) It shall be duty of Registrar to keep and maintain the State Register in accordance with the provision of this Act and of any order made by the Council, and from time to time to revise the register and publish it in the gazette and in such other manner as may be prescribed. 3). Such reregister shall be deemed to be a public document with in the meaning of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872( no. 1 of 1872) and may be proved by a copy published in the Gazette.	State Register of Homoeopathy
22.1) Every person who possesses recognized qualification mentioned in the Schedule shall, at any time on an application made in the form prescribed to the Registrar and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed be entitle to have his name entered in the register. 2)The name of every person who on the day immediately preceding the 15th day of September, 1975 was registered the register prepared under the repealed Act shall be entered in the register under this Act without such person being required to make any application or to pay any fee: Provided that such person shall pay such fee in such manner as may be prescribed within a period of two years from the 15th day of September, 1975 and on his failure to do so his name shall be removed from the register and shall be re-entered in the register on an application made by such person in such form, within such further period and on payment of such additional fee as may be prescribed: Provided further that no application for re-entry shall be entertained after the expiration of the period under the preceding provision, but shall not prejudice the right of the applicant to seek fresh registration under this section. 3)Every registered practitioner shall be given a certificate of registration in the prescribed form. In the event of such certificate being lost, defaced or destroyed a duplicate there of shall be issued on payment of a fee of ten rupees and the certificate so issued shall be marked duplicate.	Persons entilted to be registered
23. If any person whose name is registered in the State register obtains any title, degree, diploma or other qualification in homoeopathy he shall on application made in this behalf and on payment of a fee of five rupees be entitled to have an entry stating such other title, degree, diploma or other qualification made against his name in the register either in substitution for or in addition to any entry previously made.	Entry of additional qualification in the Register
24. A person who has passed the qualifying examination, on application made by him in this behalf, shall be granted provisional registration in the Register in order to enable him to practice medicine- a) In an approved institution, if the course of study includes a period of training to be undergone for obtaining a recognized qualification before such qualification is conferred on him; b) Till the recognized qualification is conferred upon him at a convocation held by the Council in accordance with the provisions of this Act.	Provisional registratition for medical practice
25. (1) If a registered practitioner has been, after due inquiry held by the Council in the manner prescribed, found guilty of any misconduct, the Council may- a) Issue a letter of warning addressed to such practitioner; or b) Direct that the name of such practitioner- (I)Conviction of the registered practitioner by the criminal court for an offence which involve moral turpitude and which is cognizable within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973(No. 2 of 1974); (II) Infamous conduct in any professional respect that is to say professional misconduct specified by the regulations under subsection (2) of the section 24 of the homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973(No 5 of 1973); (2) The Council may, on sufficient cause being shown, direct at any time that the name of the practitioner so removed shall be re-entered in the register on such conditions and on payment of such further fee as the Council may impose. (3) The Council may on its own motion or on the application of any person, after due and proper enquiries and giving an opportunity to the person concerned of being heard, cancel or alter any entry in the register if, in the opinion of the Council , such entry was fraudulently or incorrectly made. (4) The Council may on its own motion or on the application of any person, after due and proper enquiries, remove the name of any practitioner from the register, if- a) He has expired; b) He has ceased to practice; c) He being a practitioner in any system of medicine other than homoeopathy has ceased to practice homoeopathy. (5) In holding enquiries under this section the Council or the committee appointed by the Council for the purpose, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be a Court with in the meaning of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872(No.1 of 1872), and shall exercise all the power of Commissioner appointed under the public servant inquiries Act 1950(No 37 of 1850),and such enquiries shall be conducted as far as may be, in accordance with the provisions of section 3, 5, 8 to 20 of the Public Servant Inquiries Act, 1850(No. 37 of 1850).	Removal of names from the register
26. (1) The Registrar shall, in every year and from time to time the occasion may require, on or before a date to be fixed in this behalf by the Council, cause to be published in the Gazette and in such other manner as the Council may provide a full or supplementary list of the names for the time being entered in the registered and setting forth:- a) The registered address and appointment held by or actual employment of, each person whose name is entered in the Register; and b) The registered titles, degrees, diplomas and other qualification of each such person and the date on which each such title, degree or diploma was granted or qualification certified: Provided that the Registrar shall from time to time get published in the Gazette the names of such registered practitioners whose names have been duly removed from the register under any provision of this Act. (2) In any proceeding it shall be presumed that every person entered in such list is a registered practitioner and that any person not so entered is not a registered practitioner: Provided that in the case of person whose name has been entered in the register after the last publication of the list, a certified copy signed by the Registrar of the entry of the name of such person in the register, shall be evidence that such person is registered under this Act. Such certificate shall be issued free of charge.	Publication of names entered in the state Register.