CourtMesh

Section 34: Registered practitioners competent to give valid certificates or expert evidence.

The Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 28 of 1961

(1) Notwithstanding anything in any law for the time being in force, a birth or a death certificate, or a medical or fitness certificate, or any other certificate required by any law to be signed or authenticated by a duly qualified medical practitioner, shall be valid only if it has been signed or authenticated by a practitioner registered under,-

[(i) Part I or Part II of the register maintained under this Act;]

[(ii) the Maharashtra Medical Council Act, 1965 (Mah. XLVI of 1965);]

(iii) the Bomaby Homoeopathic and Biochemic Practitioners Act, 1959 (Bom. XII of 1960) or any other law for the time being in force in relation to the qualification and registration of Homoeopathic or Biochemic Practitioners in any part of the State; or

(iv) the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (CII of 1956).

(2) [Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, no person] other than a practitioner registered under any of the laws specified in sub-section (1) shall be qualified to give evidence at any inquest or in any Court of law as an expert under section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), on any matter relating to medicine, surgery or midwifery.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961.
Section34
Marginal noteRegistered practitioners competent to give valid certificates or expert evidence.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

Find the provision, not just read it

The full text above is free, and it stays free. What a free CourtMesh account adds is everything you cannot do by reading one page at a time:

  • Search 49,000+ Central and State enactments by what a provision says, not by its number
  • Jump from any section to every judgment that has applied it
  • Search 300 million+ Indian court records alongside the statute
  • Ask a research agent to find and read the case law on a provision for you

Free account. No card. About a minute to create.

Create a free account

Need this as data, not as a page? The Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961. is one of 49,000+ enactments on CourtMesh. The Indian court cases API serves the case law that cites these provisions over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also the judgment library.