Powers, duties and functions of the Council

Subject to the Act or the rules prescribed, the powers, duties and functions of the Council shall be as follows: (a) To prepare and maintain a register of live medical practitioners and to make arrangements for the registration of medical practitioners. (b) To dispose of appeals made against the decision of the Registrar. (c) To prescribe the code of ethics and professional conduct for medical practitioners. (d) To punish, suspend, or delete the name of a medical practitioner from the official register and to take disciplinary action against them, as may be proper and necessary in the opinion of the Council. (e) To ensure the compliance of all other powers, responsibilities and duties which are given by this Act or prescribed by the rules. (f) To receive complaints of the general public (including patients and their family members) regarding indecent behavior or dereliction of duties by any medical practitioner, and to analyze them and take decisions on merit, and if necessary, to pay compensation to the complainant and also, if the complaint is baseless, to initiate action against the complainant. (g) To give protection to the members of the Council in the discharge of their professional responsibilities. (h) To ensure that no disqualified person is performing medical work through modern scientific systems.