(1) The Board may direct that the name of any practitioner who has been convicted of a cognizable offence as defined in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act V of 1898) or any other law for the time being in force, which discloses such defect of moral character as is, in the opinion of the Board, sufficient to make him unfit to practice his profession or who after due inquiry has been found guilty of conduct, which is in the opinion of the Board infamous in any professional respect, shall be removed from the register. On such removal, the certificate of registration issued to the practitioner shall be deemed to have been cancelled. The Board may, on sufficient cause being shown and with the approval of the State Government direct that the name of the practitioner so removed shall be reentered in the register.
(2) Any person aggrieved by an order of the Board under sub-section (1) directing the removal of his name from the register may within ninety days from the date of 13 communication of the order, appeal to the State Government and the State Government may pass such order thereon as it deems fit.
(3) If the name of the practitioner is entered in a Register maintained under the 1[Karnataka]1 Medical Registration Act, 1961, or the 1[Karnataka]1 Ayurvedic and Unani Practitioners Registration and Medical Practitioners’ Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1961, it shall be the duty of the Board to give intimation of such removal to the authority entitled to maintain the said registers.
1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order 1973 w.e..f 1.11.1973.