Removal from register

Removal from register.—

1. (1) The Board may, if it thinks fit, inquire into and remove from the register the name of any practitioner—
   • (a) who is convicted of any such offence as implies in the opinion of the Board, such a defect of character as would render him unfit to be a medical practitioner; or
   • (b) who has been found guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect by the Board after an inquiry held by it in accordance with such regulations as may be made by the Board; or
   • (c) whose name has been entered in the register by error or on account of misrepresentation or suppression of a material fact: Provided that no name shall be removed under clause
   • (a) or
   • (b) unless the practitioner concerned has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
2. (2) Any name removed under sub-section
3. (1) may, on the recommendation of the Board, be restored to the register on such conditions as may be imposed by the Board.