Chapter IV Chapter IV

Nursing personnel entitled to practice and control of Licensing Authorities

(1) No person other than a person registered under this Act or a person whose name is entered in the list shall practice or hold himself out, whether directly or by implication, as practicing habitually or for personal gain, as a nursing personnel.

1. (2) Any person who acts in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees for the first offence and to thirty thousand rupees for any subsequent offence.

The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint licensing authority to issue licences for establishing nursing establishments.

Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations made thereunder, every licensing authority shall exercise power of general supervision and control over all nursing personnel practicing within the State of Goa.

1. (1) Every person registered under this Act, and every person whose name has been entered in the list, if he intends to continue to practice, after the date on which this Act comes into force, in the State, he shall give notice in writing to the Licensing Authority.
2. (2) Every such notice shall contain such particulars and shall be in such form as may be prescribed.
3. (3) Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees for the first offence and to three thousand rupees for any subsequent offence.
4. (4) Any person who knowingly or willfully makes or causes or procures any other person to make any false statement in any notice under this section shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees for the first offence, and to thirty thousand rupees for any subsequent offence.