section 17
Power to prohibit unregistered person from practising
The Punjab Nurses Registration Act, 1932Civil193226 sections3 chapters
Chapter III Chapter III
Statutory text
- (1) Any local authority may make bye-laws prohibiting unregistered persons from practising as nurses, health visitors, midwives, nurse-dais, [auxiliary nurses and midwives], trained dais or dais within the area subject to its authority and may in such bye-laws provide that any person practising in contravention of such bye-laws or any person committing or abetting the commitment of a breach of any such bye-laws shall be liable on conviction by a [Judicial Magistrate of the first class], to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees for a first offence, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees for a second or subsequent offence.
- (2) If any local authority fails to make bye-laws under sub-section (1), the [State] Government may by notification prohibit unregistered persons from practicing as nurses, health visitors, midwives, nurse-dais, [auxiliary nurses and midwives], trained dais or dais within the area subject to such local authority, and any unregistered person practicing in contravention of such notification shall be liable, on conviction by a Magistrate of the first class, to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees for a first offence, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees for a second or subsequent offence.
- (3) [Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any enactment, rule, bye-law or other provision of law for the time being in force, no person other than a registered nurse, a registered health visitor, a registered midwife, a registered nurse-dai, a registered auxiliary nurse and midwife, a registered trained dai or dai shall be competent to hold any appointment or be employed as such in any hospital, asylum, infirmary, dispensary, lying-in-hospital, nursing home, maternity home, health centre or other such institution, private or public, whether supported by voluntary contributions or not].
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