Refusal of registration and removal and reentry of names

Refusal of registration and removal and reentry of names.-

1. (1) The Council may refuse to permit the registration of any person as a nurse, midwife or health visitor, and when he is registered as a nurse, midwife or health visitor may direct the temporary or final removal of his name from the register of nurses, midwives or health visitors on any of the following grounds :-
   • (a) that he has been sentenced by any Court for any non-bailable offence, the sentence not having been subsequently reversed or quashed :
   • (b) that he has been guilty of any offence which, in the opinion of the Council, indicates professional incompetence, negligence or contravention of regulations ordinarily included in the performance of the duties of nurses, midwives or health visitors ;
   • (c) that there are defects in his character which in the opinion of the Council would render the entry or retention of his name on the register undesirable : Provided that no action shall be taken by the Council under this section until after due enquiry (at which the person concerned has been given an opportunity to be heard in his defence and to appear either in person or by Council, Vakil, Pleader or attorney and which, at the discretion of the President of the Council, may be held in camera) he has been found by majority of two-thirds of the members present and voting at the meeting, to have been sentenced for any non-bailable offence specified in clause
   • (a) or to have been guilty of an offence, or to have defects in his character of the nature specified in clause
   • (b) or clause (c).
2. (2) Any name so removed may afterwards be re-entered in the register and any order of refusal of registration passed under sub-section
3. (1) may be withdrawn under the direction of the Council given by majority of two-thirds of the members present and voting at the meeting.