Bare ActsThe Gujarat Medical Practitioners Act, 1963

Section 17

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(1) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Registrar shall prepare and maintain thereafter a register of Ayurvedic and Unani practitioners for the State, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (2) The register shall be in the prescribed form and there shall be one register consisting of tyro parts. Part I shall include the names of registered practitioners possessing any of the recognised qualifications and Part II shall include the names of regisetered practitioners other than those included in Part I. (3) Every person who possesses any of the qualifications specified in the Schedule shall, at any time on an application made in the prescribed form to the Registrar and on payment of a fee of ten rupees, be entitled to have his name entered in the register. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) the name of every person who on the day immediately preceding the appointed day stood registered in any register kept under the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 in its application to the Bombay area of the State or the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State or under any other corresponding law shall be entered in the register prepared under this Act without such person being required to make an application or to pay any fee. 56[(5) Any person not being a person qualified for registration under sub-section (3) or (4) who proves to the satisfaction of the Committee appointed under sub- section (8) that he had been regularly practising the Ayurvedic or Unani system of medicine— (i) in the Bombay area of the State of Gujarat on the 4th November 1941 but his name was not entered in the register maintained under the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938, or (ii) in the Saurashtra area of the State of Gujarat on the 1st November 1951 but his name was not entered in the register maintained under the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 as adapted and applied to the said area. XLV of 1860. Preparation of register. Bom. XXVI of

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