Powers and functions of the State Council

Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the provisions of this Act the powers, duties and functions of the State Council shall be- (a) To maintain the live State Medical Register, and to provide for the registration of medical practitioners; (b) Inspection, to hear and decide appeals against any decision of the Registrar; (c) To prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners; (d) To reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or remove his name from the State Medical Register, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the State Council be necessary or expedient; (e) To exercise such other powers, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions as are laid down in this Act, or as may be prescribed; (f) To received complaints from public (including patients and their relatives) against misconduct or negligence by a medical practitioners, to proceed for inquest, take a dicision on the merits of the case and to initiate disciplinary action or award