Powers, duties and functions of the Council

Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the provisions of this Act, the powers, duties and functions of the Council shall be- (a) to maintain the register, and to provide for the registration of medical practitioners; (b) to hear and decide appeals from any decision of the Registrar; (c) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners; (d) to reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or remove him from the register, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary or expedient; (e) to exercise such other powers, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions, as are laid down in this Act, or as may be prescribed.