Two categories of Homoeopaths

There shall be two classes of Registered Homoeopaths, viz, Class 'A' and Class 'B'. Class 'A": (i) "One who is a registered Medical practitioner under any statutory Act of parliament or Legislature of any State in the country, practicing exclusively Homoeopathy; (ii) One who is a Homoeopathic Medical Practitioner holding degree from a foreign country which entitles him to practice medicine in his country subject to the condition that the institution is approved as suitable for the purpose by the Board of Homoeopathic Medicine; (iii) One who is a Homoeopathic Medical Practitioner who has successfully gone through at least five years course in any Homoepathy Institution recognised by the State in which the institution is situated and holding a degree or diploma from the Institution, subject to the condition that the standard of qualification is not lower than the standard that would be required for registration by the Nagaland Homoeopathic Board. Class 'B': One who has been engaged in the practice of Homoeopathic system of Medicine as the principal occupation for a period of not less than five years immediately before the date of the coming into force of this Act: Provided that the person shall have passed an examination to be held by Board in the manner provided by regulation upon an application for registration of his name to be made within a period of two years from the date this Act comes into force.