Such certificate shall remain in force for such period as may be specified therein.

Maintenance of Register

1. (1) It shall be the duty of the Registrar to make entries in the register, from time to time, to revise the same and to issue certificate of registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and the rules made there under. (2)
   • (a) every Registrar of births and deaths, on receiving notice of death of a medical practitioner, under this Act, shall forthwith transmit by post to the registrar appointed under this Act a certificate under his own hand of such death with the particulars of time and place of death and may charge the cost of such certificate and transmission as an expense on his office;
   • (b) the names of registered practitioners, who die or whose names are directed to be removed from the register under section 22 shall be removed there from.
2. (3) Any person whose name is entered in the register and who subsequent to his registration desires to record in the register any change in his name shall, on an application made in this behalf and on payment of prescribed fee be entitled to have such change in his name recorded in the register.
3. (4) Subject to the provisions of section 26 of the Indian Medical Council Act 1956 (Central Act, 102 of 1956), any person whose name is entered in the register and who subsequent to his registration obtains any additional qualification specified in any of the schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, shall on an application made on this behalf and on payment of the prescribed fee be entitled to have an entry stating such additional qualification made against his name in the register.