Removal from register

(1) The Board may, if it sees fit and after giving due notice to the person concerned and inquiring into his objections, if any, order that any entry in the register, which shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board to have been fraudulently or incorrectly made or brought about, be cancelled or amended. (2) (i) The Board may direct the removal, permanently or for a specified period from the register, of the name of any registered practitioner, for the reasons for which registration may be refused by section 8 and the proviso thereto shall apply to proceedings under this section: provided that the name of a registered practitioner shall not be removed from the register on the ground of his association in any professional relationship with a qualified practitioner of any other system of medicine if such practitioner- (a) possesses the qualifications necessary for registration as a registered practitioner; and (b) is not a person whose name the Board has refused to register under the proviso to section 8 or whose name the Board has removed from the register under this sub-section. Explanation.-The expression "qualified practitioners" shall, for the purpose of this proviso, mean a practitioner qualified under rules made by the Government in this behalf. (ii) The Board may also direct that any name so removed shall be restored. (3) Nothing in sub-section (2) shall relieve a registered practitioner of any obligations or code of ethics which may be imposed upon registered practitioners generally by the Board. (4) Any registered practitioner may make an application to the Board for the deletion of his name from the register and the Board may, on such application and subject to such rules as may be made by the Government, direct such deletion. Any such practitioner may apply for fresh registration under section 8.