Subjects 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 determine and co-ordinate the standards of occupational therapy and physiotherapy education at all levels ;
(b) to recommend to the Government, the grant of permission to open new institutions or to open new courses of study or, training, under section 17 ;
(c) to maintain the registers, and to provide for the registration of occupational therapists and physiotherapists in the State ;
(d) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners in occupational therapy or physiotherapy ;
(e) to advise the Government in matters relating to the requirement of manpower in the field of occupational therapy and physiotherapy ;
(f) to hear and decide appeals from any decision of the Registrar;
(g) to reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or to 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 ; and
(h) to hold elections before the expiry of the term of office of the members of the Council or in any case within a period of six months after the date of expiry of such term ;
(i) to exercise such power, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions, as are laid down in this Act, or as may be prescribed.