Maintenance of list of persons practicing as nurses, midwives and health visitors.

(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.