Powers of Board to prohibit entry in or to direct removal from the register

(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.