(1) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Registrar shall prepare and maintain thereafter a register of medical practitioners for Delhi, in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2) The register shall be in such form, and may be divided into such parts, as may be prescribed. The register shall include the full name, address and qualifications with the name of college and university of the registered practitioner, the date on which each qualification wa obtained, and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(3) Any person who possesses any of the qualifications in the First, Second or Third Schedule to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) shall subject to any condition laid down by or under the Indian Medical B THE DELHI MEDlCAL COUNCIL ACT, 1997 Council Act, 1956, at any time on an application made in the prescribed form to the Registrar and on payment of a prescribed fee and on presentation of proof of his registerable qualification, be entitled to have his name entered in the register.
(4) (:1) Every person, whose name was entered on a date prior to lst May, 1961 in Indian Medical Council 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.
(b) Within a period of three months from the appointed days or such further period as the 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 ((1) applies, to pay to the Registrar in the prescribed manner the prescribed fee if he desires to have 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 enlisted on the register.
(5) After the last date for payment of the prescribed fee under Clause
(17) of sub-section (4) has expired and the register prepared in accordance with foregoing provisions is ready, the Registrar, shall publish notice in the Official Gazette and such newspapers as the Council may select, about the register having prepared, and the register shall come into force from the date of the publication of such notice in the Official Gazette.
(6) Any person servicing or practising modern scientific system of medicine in Delhi shall be registered with the Council under this Act. Without registration with the Council any person though qualified in modern scientific system of medicine shall be liable for action as specified by the Council.
(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,
16. Special procedure for registration in certain cases—(1) No person who possesses a medical qualification granted by any authority in any place outside the territory of India (other than the qualification specified in the Second Schedule or the Third Schedule to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956), shall be registered under this Act, unless the procedure specified in sub-section (2) has been followed.
(2) Any person, who holds such medical qualification may app] to the Council for registration by giving a correct description of his quali 'cation, with his decree, diploma, licence or certificate. The Council shall transmit the same to the Medical Council of India for opinion and shall act according to the opinion.
‘17. Persons who may not be registered.—Notwithstanding anything contained in Sections 15 and 16 no person 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 THE DELHI MEDICAL (XJUNCIL ACT, 1997 9 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.
18. Fee for and certificate of provisional registration—{1) Any person who desires to be registered provisionally under Section 25 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), shall make an ap lication in the prescribed form to the Registrar and shall pay the prescribed ee.
(2) Every person whose name is entered in the register under sub-section (1) shall be given a certificate of provisional registration in the prescribed form. Such certificate shall remain in force for such period as may be specified therein.