(1) Every registered or enlisted practitioner shall be liable to pay to the Council a renewal fee of such amount and on such date or at such interval as may be prescribed.
(2) At least three months before the date by which the renewal fee is due to be paid under sub-section (1), the Registrar shall by registered post address a letter to each registered or enlisted practitioner at either the residential or the professional address entered in the register or the list, as the case may be, calling upon him to pay the renewal fee on or before the due date.
XXX.VIII of
1926.
XXV of 1961.
Bom. XLV III of
1951.
Persons not entitled to registration or enlisment Maintenance of register and list.
Renewl fee The Gujarat Homoeopathic Act, 1963 1963 : Guj. XXXVI]
(3) (a) If the renewal fee is paid on or before the due date, the Registrar shall issue to the practitioner a renewal slip in the prescribed form specifying the date up to which the validity of his certificate of registration or enlistment, as the case maybe, has been extended.
(b) If the renewal fee is not paid by the due date, the Registrar shall remove the name of the defaulting practitioner from the register or the list, as the case may be. On such removal the certificate of registration or enlistment, as the case may be, issued to the practitioner shall be deemed to have been cancelled.
Provided that the name so removed may be re-entered in the register or the list, as the case may be, on payment of the renewal fee and such addition fee as may be prescribed. On receipt of such fee the Registrar shall issue a renewal slip as provided in clause (a).
24. Fees paid under sections 17, 18, 22 and 23 shall not be refunded.
25. Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force-
(i) a registered practitioner or an enlisted practitioner shall not be entitled to practise any system of medicine other than Homoeopathy, unless he is duly qualified and entitled under any law for the time being in force to practise that system:
Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply to a practitioner whose name is entered in the register under the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 17;
(ii) the expression ―legally qualified medical practitioner‖ or ―duly qualified medical practitioner‖ or any word importing a person recognized by law as medical practitioner or member of the medical profession shall, in all Acts of the State Legislature in force in the State of Gujarat and in all Central Acts (in their application to the State of Gujarat) in so far as such Acts related to any matter specified in List II or List III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India, include a practitioner whose name is entered in the register under this Act;
(iii) a certificate required by any Act from any medical practitioner shall be valid if such certificate has been signed by a practitioner whose name is entered in the register under this Act;
(iv) a practitioner whose name is entered in the register shall be eligible to hold any appointment as a physician or other medical officer in any Homoeopathic dispensary, hospital or infirmary supported by or receiving a grant from the State Government and treating patients, according to Homeopathic system of medicine or in any public establishment, body or institution dealing with such system of medicine;
(v) every registered practitioner shall be exempt, if he so desires, from serving on an inquest.
26. Every Registrar of Deaths on receiving notice of the death of a registered practitioner shall forthwith transmit, by post, Registrar, a certificate under his own had together with the particulars of the time and place of death and may charge the cost of transmission of such certificate as an expense of his office.
CHAPTER IV EXAMINATIONS HELD BY THE COUNCIL, COURSES OF STUDIES, RECOGNITION OF INSTITUTIONS AND RECOGNITION OF QUALIFICATIONS.