Chapter VI REPEAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Transitional Provisions.

1. (1) The State Government may for bringing the council into being in accordance with the provisions of this Act appoint the director of medical services to be a special officer to conduct election of council to be established for the first time after the commencement of this Act.
2. (2) Till the council is established under sub section-1 of section
3. (5) the special officer appointed under sub section
4. (1) shall be deemed to be council establish under sub section
5. (1) of section-3 for the purposes of this Act and shall exercise the powers and discharges the function of the council.

General Provisions applicable to medical practitioners. The provisions of this Act are in addition and not in derogation of, the provisions of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (No. 102 of 1956), containing general provisions applicable to all medical practitioners.

Repeal and other consequences. As from the date of commencement of this Act, the following consequences shall ensue, namely:-

1. (a) The central province and berar medical registration Act, 1916 (No. 1 of 1916) and the Madhya Pradesh statutory bodies (regional construction) Act, 1956 (XVII of 1956), in so for as it relates to the said Act, the Madhya Bharat Medical Practitioners Registration Act, 1954 (No.16 of 1954) and the medical practitioners registration Act, 1935 (Bhopal Act VII of 1935), in so for as it relates to registered practitioners practicing medicine as define in clause-C of section-2 shall stand repealed;
2. (b) The Mahakoshal Medical Council, The Madhya Bharat (Region) Medical Council and the Medical Council established under section-3 of the medical practitioners registration Act, 1935 (Bhopal Act VII of 1935) shall stand dissolved;
3. (c) All assets and liabilities of the councils referred to in clause-B shall belong to and be deemed to be the assets and liabilities of the council establish or deemed to be established under section-3;
4. (d) All records and papers belonging to the councils referred to in clause-B shall vest in and be transferred to the council established or deemed to be established under section-3.