Section 18 of THE GUJARAT MEDICAL COUNCIL ACT, 1967

16. (1) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Registrar shall prepare and maintain thereafter a register of medical practitioners for the State, in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

1. (2)The register shall he in such form, and may be divided into such parts, as may be prescribed. The register shall include the full name, address, and qualifications of the registered practitioner, the date on which each qualification was obtained, and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
2. (3)Any person who possesses any of the qualifications specified in the Schedule to this Act or in the First, Second or Third Schedule to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, shall, subject to any conditions laid down by or under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, at any time on an application made in the prescribed form to the Registrar and on payment of 1[the prescribed fee] and on presentation of his degree, diploma, licence or certificate, be entitled to have his name entered in the register:

1. These words were substituted for the words "a fee of fifty rupees" by Guj. 7 of 1995, s.2.

XLV of 1860. Other employees of the Council. XLV of 1860. Preparation of register. CII of 1956.

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Provided that the name of an applicant who is unable to present his degree, diploma, licence or certificate may be entered in the register, if he satisfies the President that he holds such degree, diploma, licence or certificate but cannot for sufficient cause present the same with his application.

1. (4)The name of every person-
   1. (a)who, being entered, on or after the 1 st May 1961 in the register duly kept under section 6 of the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 as in force in the Bombay area of the State (hereinafter referred to as "the Bombay Area Register") stands entered in the said register on the day immediately preceding the appointed day, or
   2. (b)who stands entered in the register duly kept under section 6 of the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, on the day immediately preceding the appointed day, shall be entered in the register prepared under this Act, without such person being required to make an application or to pay any fee for this purpose.
2. (5)(a) Every person, whose name was entered on a date prior to the st May 1961 in the Bombay Area Register and continued in such register on the day immediately preceding the appointed day, shall be entitled to have his name continued in the register prepared under this Act in accordance with provisions of clause (b).
   1. (b)Within a period of three months from the appointed day or such further period as the State Government may allow, the Registrar shall publish a general notice in the Official Gazette and in such newspapers, as the Council may select, in such form as may be prescribed, calling upon every person to whom clause (a) applies, to pay to the Registrar in the prescribed manner a fee of five rupees if he desires to continue his name on the register under this Act, and shall also send individual notice for a like purpose by registered post to every such person at his last known address in such form as may be prescribed. The name of every such person who pays such fee before the expiry of the period of two months from the date of publication of the general notice in the Official Gazette shall be continued on the register, without such person being required to make an application or to pay any other fee for this purpose. If such fee is not paid within time, the Registrar shall remove the name of the defaulter from the register: Provided that, if any application for continuance of the name so removed is made to the Registrar within a period of six months from the last date on which such fee should have been paid, the name so removed may be re- entered in the register on payment of a fee of ten rupees.
3. (6)After the last date for payment of the fee of five rupees under clause
   1. (b)of sub-section (5) has expired and the register prepared in accordance with the foregoing provisions is ready, the Registrar shall publish a notice in the Official Gazette and such newspapers as the Council may select, about the register having been prepared, and the register shall come into force from the date of the publication of such notice in the Official Gazette.
4. (7)Every registered practitioner shall be given a certificate of registration in the prescribed form. The registered practitioner shall display the certificate of registration in a conspicuous part in the place of his practice and if he has more than one such place in any one of them. 17. (1) No person who possesses a medical qualification granted by any authority in any place outside the territory of India (other than the qualifications specified in the Second Schedule or the Third schedule to the Indian Medical Bom. VI of 1912. Bom. VI of 1912. Special procedure for registration in certain cases. CII of 1956.

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Council Act, 1956), shall be registered under this Act, unless the procedure specified in sub-section (2) has been followed.

1. (2)Any person, who holds any such medical qualification may apply to the Council for registration by giving a correct description of his qualification, with the date on which it was granted, and by presentation of his degree, diploma, licence or certificate. The Council shall transmit to the Central Government the application with its opinion whether the medical qualification possessed by the applicant should be included in Part II of the Third Schedule to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. If the medical qualification is so included in pursuance of the provisions of sub-section (4) of Section 13 of that Act the Council may, subject to the provisions of that Act and on payment of 1[the prescribed fee], enter his name in the register under section 16.

whose name has been removed whether before or after the appointed day, from any register kept under this Act or any other law for the time being in force in India regulating the registration of medical practitioners on the ground of professional misconduct, shall be entitled to have his name entered in the register, unless his name is duly ordered to be restored to the register from which it was so removed. 19. (1) Any person who desires to be registered provisionally under section 25 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, shall make an application in the prescribed form to the Registrar and shall pay

2[the prescribed fee].

1. (2)Every person whose name is entered in the register under sub- section (I) shall be given a certificate of provisional registration in the prescribed form.