Chapter VI REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL PRACTIONERS

any of the Medical qualifications included in the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, may apply to the Registrar giving a correct description of his qualifications, with the dates on which they were granted, and present his degree, diploma or license along with such fee as may be prescribed for being registered under this Act. The Registrar shall, if satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be registered, enter his name in the register: Provided that any person whose name has been registered under any law for the time being in force in any other part of India relating to the registration of medical practitioners shall be required to pay such registration fee as may be prescribed if the law aforesaid provides for registration of persons registered under this Act without the payment of any fee or on payment of a fee not exceeding the prescribed fee.

1[Provided further that an applicant for Registration, from such date as may be notified by the Government in this behalf, shall produce proper evidence to the effect that he or she has completed one year of Rural Medical Service in the manner prescribed thereof. Explanation – 1:- For the purpose of sub-section (1) of this section, an applicant for registration means, a person who holds recognized medical qualification and underwent such practical training in any approved institution in the State. Explanation- 2:- The condition laid down in second proviso to sub- section (1) of this section shall also apply to the persons who have not undergone Rural Medical Service outside the State of Andhra Pradesh.] . Added by the Act No.10 of 2013, section 4.

(2)Any person who immediately before the date of commencement of this Act was a registered practitioner under the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Medical Registration Act, 1914 or the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh Area) Medical Registration Act, 1348 F., and who is qualified for registration under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, shall be deemed to have been registered under the provisions of this Act on that date and his name shall be entered in the register maintained under this Act. (3)Upon entry in the register of a name under this section the Registrar shall issue a certificate of registration in the prescribed form. (4)The Council may refuse to permit the registration of any person, who was convicted of an offence involving a moral turpitude with imprisonment for a period of not less than six months or with fine of not less than rupees five hundred and a period of five years has not elapsed from the date of such conviction, or who after due inquiry by the Council or a Committee thereof was found guilty by the Council of infamous conduct in any professional respect.

1[15A -(1) A citizen of India possessing a medical qualification granted by a medical institution outside India included in Part-II of the Third Schedule to Indian Medical Council Act, 1956(Central Act 102 of 1956), who is required to undergo practical training in an approved institution shall be entitled to be registered provisionally in the Andhra Pradesh Medical Register and shall be entitled to practice medicine in any approved institution for the purpose of such training and not for other purpose.

1. (2) Every person who holds any of the Medical Qualifications included in the FIRST Schedule to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 may apply to the Registrar giving correct description of his qualification with the date on which the same was granted and present his pass certificate along with such fee as may be prescribed by the Council in this behalf, shall be entitled for the grant of Provisional Medical registration, for the purpose of enabling him to be engaged in employment in a resident medical capacity in any approved institution or in the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of the Union.
2. (3) The names of all persons provisionally registered under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) in the Andhra Pradrsh Medical Register shall be entered therein separately from the names of other persons registered therein.
3. (4) A person registered provisionally as aforesaid who has completed practical training referred to in subsection (1) or who has been engaged for the prescribed period in employment in a resident medical capacity in any approved institution or in the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of the Union, as the case may be, subject to the conditions laid down in Second Proviso to sub-section (1) of section 15 shall be entitled for registration in . Sections 15A, 15AA, 15B, 15C and 15D inserted by Act 10 of 2013, section 5. the Andhra Pradesh Medical Register under section 15.
4. (5) The Registrar shall, if satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be registered provisionally under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) enter his name in the Register and also issue a certificate in the form prescribed in this behalf.
5. (6) The Provisional Registration granted under subsection (1) or sub-section
6. (2) shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of its issuance: Provided that any person who is unable to complete the practical training within the validity period of such provisional registration may get the same revalidated for the required period, but not exceeding for a period of one year. 15AA. 1[******]

Register obtains any title, or P.G. Diploma or Degree or a Higher Speciality, which is a recognized medical qualification, he or she shall, on application made in this behalf in the prescribed manner, shall be entitled to have an entry stating such other qualification made against his or her name in the medical Registrar either in substitution for or in addition to any entry previously made by plying fee prescribed by the Council;

2[xxxxx] 15C. (1) Subject to provisions contained in section 15 (1) above, every medical practitioner shall once in every five years renew his or her registration by paying prescribed fee to the Council.

1. (2) For renewal of registration such applicant shall produce evidence to the effect that he or she participated or attended a minimum of such hours, as may be prescribed in this behalf, over a period preceding five years in any recognized Medical Conference or Seminar or Workshop or Continued Medical Education Programme approved in this behalf,
2. (3) The Medical Practitioner who fails to renew his or her registration under sub-section (1) and in the manner prescribed under sub-section (2), shall cease to be a registered practitioner within the meaning of section 2 (1) of the Act, and the Registrar shall remove the name of such practitioner from the “Register” maintained under section 15: Provided that the Registrar may grant fresh registration in such cases on payment of fee as prescribed in this behalf and on an application prescribed thereto. .Omitted by Act No 16 of 2018, S.2. .

1. (1) Any Medical Practitioner from other Country in the world or from other State in India who visits Andhra Pradesh for the purpose of demonstration of skill or conducting surgeries or procedures or workshop for the purposes of teaching, research or charitable work who has not registered his or her name in Medical Council of India shall apply to the Registrar for the purpose of Temporary Permission for undertaking the aforesaid professional activities: Provided that medical practice by such persons shall be,-
   • (a) permitted only if they are enrolled as medical practitioners in accordance with the law regulating the registration of medical practitioners for the time being in force in that Country or in that State.
   • (b) limited to the institution to which they are attached for the time being for the purposes of teaching, research or charitable work.
   • (c) limited to the period specified in this behalf by the Council by general or special order.
2. (2) Any institution or administrator or head of the unit of the concerned specialty shall give correct description of qualifications of foreign visiting doctors with dates on which they were granted and present such degree or diploma or license along with such fee prescribed by the Council.
3. (3) The Registrar shall, if satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be permitted temporarily for medical practice subject to the provisions of sub- section (1) above, enter his or her name in the register maintained in this behalf and also issue a certificate to that effect, on payment of fee prescribed by the Council from time to time.]

1. (1) Every Registrar of Births and Deaths on receiving notice of the death of a registered practitioner, shall forthwith transmit to the Registrar appointed under this Act, a certificate under his own hand and seal of such death giving the time and place thereof. (2)On receipt of such certificate or other reliable information regarding such death, the Registrar appointed under this Act, shall remove the name of the deceased practitioner from the register.

receiving notice of the death of a registered practitioner, shall forthwith transmit to the Registrar appointed under this Act, a certificate under his own hand and seal of such death giving the time and place thereof. (2)On receipt of such certificate or other reliable information regarding such death, the Registrar appointed under this Act, shall remove the name of the deceased practitioner from the register.

Council may, if it thinks fit, after giving notice to the person concerned and inquiring into his objections, if any, order that any entry in the register which is proved to the satisfaction of the Council to have been fraudulently or incorrectly made or brought about, be cancelled or altered. (2)The Council may direct the removal, permanently or for a specified period, from the register the name of any registered practitioner for the same reasons for which registration may be refused by the Council under sub-

section (4) of section 15 and the provisions thereof shall apply to any inquiry under this section: Provided that the name of a registered practitioner shall not be removed from the register on the ground of his association, in any professional respect, with a registered practitioner of indigenous medicine such as Ayurvedic, Homoeopathic, Unani and Sidda. Explanation—For the purpose of this proviso, the expression ‘Registered practitioner of indigenous medicine’ shall mean ‘a practitioner qualified for registration under any law for the time being in force relating to the registration of practitioners of indigenous medicine’. (3)Nothing in sub-section (2) shall relieve a registered practitioner of any

obligation or code of ethics which may be imposed on registered

practitioners generally by the Council. (4)Any registered practitioner may make an application to the Council for deleting his name from the register and the Council may, on such application and in accordance with such rules as may be made, direct such deletion. Any such practitioner may apply for fresh registration under section 15. (5)A person whose name has been removed or deleted from the register under this section shall forthwith surrender his certificate of registration to the Registrar, and the name so removed or deleted shall be published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette.

the satisfaction of the Registrar that a certificate of registration has been lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced, the Registrar may, on payment of the prescribed fee, issue a duplicate certificate in the prescribed form.