Chapter III REGISTRATION

The Council shall prepare and maintain a register of nurses, midwives and health visitors, in such form, containing such particulars and divided into such parts and sections as may be prescribed.

(1) Any person who has undergone such courses of training and has passed such examinations and who fulfils such other conditions as may be prescribed or any person who possesses any of the qualifications included I the Schedule to the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947, shall, subject to any conditions laid down by or under the said Act, at any time on an application made in the prescribed form to the Register and on payment of the prescribed fee and on presentation of his degree, diploma or certificate, be entitled to have his name entered in the register. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) the name of every person which was entered in the register duly maintained under the Bombay Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act, 1954 and in force immediately before the coming into force of this Part in the Bombay area of State of Gujarat, shall, without further fee or charge, be entered in the register to be prepared and maintained under this Act and shall continue thereon for the period for which such registration was made or renewed, as the case may be, unless removed earlier under the provisions of this Act. (3) (i) Any person who desires to be registered temporarily under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 11 of the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947, shall make an application in the prescribed form to the Register and shall pay the prescribed fee. On receipt of such application, the Register shall seek the approval of the President of the Council constituted under the said Act for temporary enrolment of the applicant in the register. (ii) Every person whose name is entered in the register clause (i) shall be given a certificate of temporary registration in the prescribed form. Such certificate shall remain in force for such period as may be specified therein. (iii) Any person who possesses temporary registration under clause (i) shall not be eligible to stand as a candidate or to vote at any election held under this Act.

(1) Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, the Council may, after giving an opportunity to the person concerned to be heard in his defense and after holding an inquiry in the prescribed manner, refuse to enter in the register the name of any person or may order the removal of the name of such person from the register. (2) The order passed under sub-section (1) shall be in writing and shall be served on the person concerned in the prescribed manner. (3) The Council may direct that the name of any person against whom an order under sub-section (1) has been passed shall be entered or re-entered, as the case may be, in the register.

(1) Any person aggrieved by any order of the Council made under Section 14 may, within three months from the date on which such order is served or received appeal against such order to the State Government. (2) The order of the State Government on any such appeal shall be final.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 13, the Council may direct that for every five years a renewal fee of such amount as may be approved by the State Government shall be paid by each person registered under the Act for the continuance of his name on the register.

(2) If the renewal fee is not paid before the date fixed by the Council, the Council shall remove the name of the defaulter from the register: Provided that the name so removed may be re-entered in the register on payment of the renewal fee in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Council may by by-laws direct.

(1) The Council shall prepare and keep a list of persons whose names are not entered in the register maintained under section 12 and who are practicing as nurses, midwives and health visitors. The list shall be divided into such parts as may be determined by the Council.

(2) Every person not being qualified for registration under this Act, who with in a period of three years from the date on which this part comes into force, proves to the satisfaction of the Council that he has been in regular practice as a nurse, midwife or health visitor and fulfils such other conditions as may be determined by the Council shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, be entitled to have his name entered in the list: Provided that any person whose name has been removed from the register maintained under this Act or under any other law relating to registration of nurses, midwives and health visitors for the time being in force in any other part of India or from the corresponding register of any other country for infamous conduct in any professional respect shall not be entitled to have his name entered in the list.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), Dais or Emergency Nursing Aides who may have received training in accordance with the bye-laws laid down by the Council shall be entitled to have their names entered in the list to be prepared and kept under sub-section (1), on payment of the prescribed fee.

(4) The provisions of section 14, 15 and 16 shall mutatis mutandis apply to such list.