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Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the provisions of this Act, the powers, duties and functions of the Council shall be- ( a ) to maintain the register, and to provide for the registration of medical practitioners; (b) to hear and decide appeals from any decision of the Registrar; ( c ) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners; 1 [including those covered by entry 28 of the Schedule]: ( d ) to reprimand a practitioner, or the suspend or remove him from the register, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary or expedient; ( e ) to exercise such other powers, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions, as are laid down in this Act, or as may be prescribed.