Chapter IV MISCELLANEOUS.

The Council shall have authority to call on the governing body or authorities of any Medical College or School and on any examining body included in or desirous of being included in the Schedule,\n\n(a) to furnish such particulars as the Council shall require of any course of study prescribed or examination held by such body or authority or in such school or college with reference to the grant of any medical or surgical qualification, and\n\n(b) to permit such person or persons as is or are, in the opinion of the Council, specially qualified for the purpose, to attend and be present at any such examination.

(1) If it shall appear to the State Government, on the report of the Council or otherwise, that the course of study and examinations prescribed by any University, college, body or institution, conferring a degree, diploma, licence or certificate or any other like award, not entered in the Schedule to this Act or in any of the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, is such as to secure the possession by persons obtaining such degree, diploma, licence, certificate or award of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of their profession as medical practitioners, it shall be lawful for the State Government from time to time by notification in the Official Gazette, to amend the Schedule and to direct the inclusion therein of any such qualification, subject to such conditions (if any), as may be specified in respect of that qualification.\n\n(2) If at any time it appears to the State Government, on the report of the Council or otherwise, that the course of study or the examinations prescribed by any University, college, body or institution, for any degree, diploma, licence, certificate or award, which is included in the Schedule to this Act are not such as to secure the possession by persons obtaining such qualification of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of their profession, as medical practitioners or to secure the maintenance of an adequate standard of proficiency for such practice, it shall be lawful for the State Government from time to time to direct the removal of any such qualification from the said Schedule or to impose such further conditions therefor as it deems fit:\n\nProvided that, no notification for amendment of the Schedule under sub-section (I) or sub-section (2) shall be issued by the State Government, without consulting the Council:\n\nProvided further that, before making any recommendation to the State Government under this section to remove any degree, diploma, licence, certificate or award, from the Schedule, the Council shall require the University, college, body or institution to take steps as may be directed by the Council, and within such reasonable time as the Council may prescribe, to bring the course of study or examination for such degree, diploma, licence, certificate or award, to the required standard.

If any person whose name is not for the time being entered in the register falsely represents that it is so entered, or uses in connection with his name or title any words or letters reasonably calculated to suggest that his name is so entered, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

(1) If at any time it appears to the State Government that the Council or its President or Vice-President has failed to exercise or has exceeded or abused any of the powers conferred upon it or him by or under this Act, or

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may be made- (a) for the whole or any part of the State, and (b) to provide for all or any matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed by rules. (3) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than thirty days before the State Legislature as soon as possible after they are made and shall be subject to rescission by the Legislature or to such modifications as the Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following. (4) Any rescission or modifications so made by the Legislature shall be published in the Official Gazette, and shall thereupon take effect.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, with effect on and from the date on which the Council is constituted under this Act under sub-section (8) of section 3 (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as "the specified date")- (a) the Bombay Medical Act, 1912, as in force in the Bombay area of the State, (b) the Bombay Medical Act, 1912, as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, and (c) the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 as applied to the Kutch area of the State, shall stand repealed. (2) With effect on and from the specified date,- (a) the Gujarat (Bombay Area) Medical Council constituted under section 2 read with section 2B of the Bombay Medical Act, 1912, as in force in the Bombay area of the State, and (b) the Saurashtra Medical Council constituted under section 2 of the Bombay Medical Act, 1912, as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, shall stand dissolved and all the members thereof shall vacate office. (3) The registers kept or maintained or deemed to be kept or maintained under the Acts so repealed which are in force immediately before the specified date, shall be deemed to be the registers prepared under this Act, until the register prepared under section 16 comes into force under sub-section (6) thereof. (4) Anything done or any action taken (including any appointment or application made, rule, notification, order or direction issued or fee levied or certificate or notice given) under any of the Acts so repealed and subsisting immediately before the specified date shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and unless the State Government otherwise directs, be deemed to have been made, issued, levied or given under the relevant provisions of this Act, and be in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act: Provided that the rules made under the Bombay Medical Act, 1912, as in force in the Bombay Area of the State and in force immediately before the specified date shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be rules made in relation to the whole of the State of Gujarat and continue in force accordingly until they are superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.