Duties of Registrar

Duties of Registrar.-

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and subjects to any general or special order of the Council it shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep the registers.
2. (2) There shall be separate registers for [22] ["nurses, midwives, auxiliary nurse-midwives and health visitors"]. The registers shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed by rules. Each register shall be divided into two parts A and B, Part A containing the names of those [23] ["nurses, midwives, auxiliary nurse-midwives, or health visitors"] who are eligible for registration under clause
   • (i) of sub-section
3. (1) of Section 20 and Part B containing the names of those [24] ["nurses, midwives, auxiliary nurse-midwives, or health visitors"] who are eligible for registration under clause
   • (ii) of sub-section
4. (1) of Section 20. [25] ["(2-a) The Government shall cause to be prepared a separate register of dhais registered under the Madras Nurses and Midwives Act, 1926 and holding appointments or practicing in the Malabar district referred to in sub-section
5. (2) of section 5 of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956), in such form and containing such particulars as may be prescribed.";]
6. (3) The Registrar shall keep the registers correct in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations made thereunder and shall remove from the registers the names of those registered [26] ["nurses, midwives, auxiliary nurse-midwives, health visitors and dhais"] who are dead or whose names are directed to be removed from the registers under Section 23.
7. (4) The Registers shall be deemed to be public documents under Section 74 of the Indian Evidence Act.