Registration of practitioners

The Tamil Nadu Homoeopathy System of Medicine and Practitioners of Homoeopathy Act, 1971

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Chapter III REGISTRATION OF PRACTITIONERS

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(1) Subject to the other provisions contained in this Act, -
- (a) every person who possesses any of the qualifications specified in the Schedule and who furnishes to the registrar proof of his qualification for registration whether or not such person practises or intends to practise homoeopathy ;
- (b) every person who does not possess any of the qualifications referred to in clause
- (a) but who, -
  - (i) makes an application in the prescribed manner so as to reach the council on or before the 4th day of May 1976 ; and
  - (ii) proves in the prescribed manner to the satisfaction of the council that he has been in regular practice as a practitioner for a period of not less than ten years on the 4th day of May 1974 ; and
- (c) every person who neither possesses any of the qualifications referred to in clause
- (a) nor has been in such practise as is referred to in clause
- (b) but who, -
  - (i) makes an application in the prescribed manner so as to reach the council on or before the 4th day of May 1976 ;
  - (ii) proves in the prescribed manner to the satisfaction of the council that he has been in regular practice as a practitioner for a period of not less than four years from the 4th day of May 1974 ; and
  - (iii) passes a written test to be conducted by the council within a period of five years from the commencement of this Act, shall be entitled to have his name entered in the relevant register of practitioners maintained under sub-section
(2) of section 16.
(2) The place and time at which the written test referred to in sub-clause
- (iii) of clause
- (c) of sub-section
(1) shall be conducted and the syllabus for the test shall be prescribed by regulations.
(3) Every application for registration under this Act shall be sent to the registrar together with the prescribed fee and such proof of qualifications for registration, as may be prescribed.
(4) The council may refuse to permit the registration of any person who has been convicted of any such offence as implies in the opinion of the council a defect of character or who, after inquiry at which opportunity has been given to the candidate to be heard in person or by pleader, has been held by the council to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect.

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