Functions of the Council

The functions of the Council shall be:- (a) to maintain a register of Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists; (b) to regulate the practice of physiotherapy and occupational therapy; (c) to approve the curriculum and syllabus for physiotherapy and occupational therapy courses; (d) to recognize educational institutions for imparting physiotherapy and occupational therapy education; (e) to prescribe code of ethics for the practitioners; (f) to perform any other function as may be entrusted to it by the State Government consistent with the objective of this Act. The functions of the Council shall be:- (a) to prescribe and enforce the standards of physiotherapy and occupational therapy, education and practices at all levels; (b) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners in the State; (c) to maintain the register, and to provide for registration of physiotherapist and occupational therapist for the State; (d) to advise the Government in matters relating to the requirements of man power in the field of physiotherapy or occupational therapy; (e) to hear and decide appeals from any decision of the Registrar; (f) to reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or to remove him from the register, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary of expedient; (g) to promote research in the field of physiotherapy and occupational therapy; (h) to exercise such power, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions under this Act, or as may be prescribed. The functions of the Council shall be.- (a) to prescribe and enforce the standards of physiotherapy and occupational therapy, education and practices at all levels; (b) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners in the State; (c) to maintain the register, and to provide for registration of physiotherapist and occupational therapist for the State; (d) to advise the Govemment in matters relating to the requirements of man power in the field of physiotherapy or occupational therapy; (e) to hear and decide appeals from any decision of the Registrar; (f) to reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or to remove him from the register, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary of expedient; (g) to promote research in the field of physiotherapy and occupational therapy; (h) to exercise such power, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions under this Act, or as may be prescribed.