Chapter III Staff and Registration

(1) The State Government shall appoint the Registrar of the Board. (2) The Registrar shall be the Secretary and the executive officer of the Board. (3) The Board may, with the prior approval of the State Government, appoint such other officers and servants as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (4) All questions relating to the number, designations, pay and allowances, recruitment, promotions, leave, provident fund and other conditions of service of the officers and servants appointed under sub- section (3) shall be governed by rules made by the State Government. (5) The Registrar and any other officer or servant appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act 45 of 1860).

(1) The First Board shall, within one and a half year of its constitution, prepare a register of Electropaths. (2) The register shall be kept and maintained by the Board in such manner as may be prescribed.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and subject to any general or special orders of the State Government or the Board, it shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep and maintain the register and discharge such other functions as are required to be discharged by him under this Act or by any rules or regulations made thereunder. (2) The Registrar shall, so far as practicable, keep and maintain the register correct and up-to-date and may from time to time enter therein any material alterations in the addresses or qualifications of the registered Electropaths. He shall also remove from the register the names of the registered Electropaths who die or who cease to be qualified as such.

(1) Every person, possessing recognized medical qualifications shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be entitled to have his name entered in the register. (2) An application for registration shall be made to and disposed of by the Registrar. (3) Every application for registration under sub-section (2) shall be made in such form and manner and be accompanied with such registration fee as may be prescribed by the Board. (4) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the Registrar regarding the registration of any person may within ninety days from the date of such decision or within such extended time as the Board may upon sufficient cause allow, appeal to the Board. (5) Such appeal shall be heard and decided by the Board in the prescribed manner. (6) The Board may on its own motion or on the application of any person and after calling for an explanation from the person concerned and considering the same, cancel or alter any entry in the register, if in the opinion of the Board, such entry was fraudulently or incorrectly made or obtained.

(1) Every registered Electropath shall be entitled to practice for a period of three years from the date on which his name has been registered and if he desires to practice after the expiry of the said period, he shall, upon an application made to the Registrar along with a prescribed renewal fee for every period of three years, be entitled to the continuance of his name in the register. (2) If the renewal fee is not paid before the due date, the registrar shall remove the name of the defaulter from the register: Provided that the name so removed may be restored to the register on payment of the renewal fee in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.

If the Board is satisfied that any title or qualification granted or certified by a University, medical institution, examining body or other institution in or outside India is sufficient guarantee that persons holding such title or qualification possess the knowledge and skill requisite for the efficient practice of Electropathy, it may recognize such title or qualification.

The Board shall have power to call upon the governing body or authority of a University, medical institution, examining body or other institution, recognised or desirous of being recognized - (a) to furnish such reports, returns or other information as the Board may require to enable it to judge the efficiency of the instructions given therein in Electropathy; and (b) to provide facilities to enable a member of the Board deputed by it in this behalf to be present at the examination held by such University, medical institution, examining body or other institution.

Every person who applies to have his name entered in the register must satisfy the Registrar that he possesses recognized medical qualification and he must inform the Registrar of the date on which he obtained the such qualification and shall also furnish any other information required by the Registrar in order to enable him to discharge his duties under the Act.

If a person whose name is entered in the register obtains any title or qualification other than the title or qualification in respect of which he has been registered, he shall on payments of such fee as may be prescribed be entitled to have an entry stating such other title or qualification made against his name in the register, either in substitution for, or in addition to, any entry previously made.

(1) The Board may prohibit the entry in, or order the removal from, the register of the name of any Electropath - (a) who has been sentenced by a court in India to imprisonment for an offence declared by the State Government to involve such moral turpitude as would render the entry or continuance of his name in the register undesirable; or (b) whom the Board or a committee of the Board specially authorised for the purpose, after enquiry at which an opportunity has been given to him to be heard in his defence and to appear either in person or by counsel and which may in the discretion of the Board, be held has found guilty of professional misconduct or other infamous conduct by a majority of at least two-thirds of the members present and voting at the meeting; or (c) who has been found by the Board or a Committee of the Board specially constituted for this purpose, after an enquiry and after giving the person concerned an opportunity of being heard, to have obtained registration fraudulently or by submitting false or forged or incorrect document or on the basis of misrepresentation or by the use of deceitful and dishonest means. (2) The name of any person against whom an order has been made under clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1) shall be entered or re-entered in the register, as the case may be, after six years from the date of such order.

(1) Every Registrar of Death who receives notice of the death of a person whose name he knows to be entered in the register shall forthwith transmit by post to the Registrar of the Board a certificate of such death, signed by him and stating particulars of the time and place of death. (2) On receipt of such certificate or other reliable information regarding such death, the Board shall erase the name of the deceased person to be erased from the register.

(1) The Registrar shall in every year and from time to time as occasions may require, on or before a date to be fixed in this behalf by the Board, cause to be published in the Official Gazette and in such other manner as the Board may specify, a full or supplementary list arranged in alphabetical order of the names for the time being entered in the register and setting forth - (a) the registered address and appointment held by or actual employment of each person whose name is entered in the register; (b) the registered titles and qualifications of each such person and the date on which each such title or qualification was granted or certified: Provided that the Registrar shall from time to time get published in the Official Gazette the names of such registered Electropaths whose names have been duly removed from the register under any provision of this Act. (2) In any proceeding it shall be presumed that every person entered in such list is a registered Electropath: Provided that in the case of a person whose name has been entered in the register after the last publication of the list, a certified copy signed by the Registrar of the entry of the name of such person in the register shall be evidence that such person is registered under this Act, and such certificate shall be issued free of charge.