Powers of the Board

The Board shall have the power :-

1. (1) to recognise homoeopathic educational or instructional institutions for purposes of affiliation;
2. (2) to prescribe courses of study and curricula for general instruction or special or refresher courses in institutions affiliated to the Board in such branches of the Medical Science or homoeopathy as the Board may think fit;
3. (3) to hold examinations and to grant and confer degrees and diplomas to and on persons who shall have pursued a course of study in the educational institutions affiliated to the Board;
4. (4) to institute exhibitions and award medals thereat and also to grant scholarship and medals to those who obtain high position at the Board's examinations or are poor and deserving, and with the sanction of the State Government, to grant to students scholarships for special study in research and manufacture of homoeopathic medicine in any medical institution or a reputed firm that the Board may think fit, whether in India or abroad and to endow Chairs of Homoeopathy in institutions affiliated to the Board;
5. (5) to demand and receive from students such fees as may be prescribed for admission to the Board's examinations;
6. (6) to exercise general supervision over the residential and disciplinary arrangements made by the educational institutions affiliated to the Board and to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of their students;
7. (7) to appoint examiners and publish the results of the examinations held by it;
8. (8) to suspend or withdraw the recognition of any institution which is not conducted in accordance with the conditions prescribed by this Act or rules framed thereunder: Provided that no such action shall be taken without affording to Committee of Management of such an educational institution an opportunity of making such representation as it may deem fit;
9. (9) to establish or aid research institutions and to arrange for post-graduate study in the science of homoeopathy and to encourage scientific manufacture of homoeopathic medicine in the State;
10. (10) to publish homoeopathic journals; and
11. (11) to do such acts, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as may be necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the Act.