(1) The Council shall appoint a registrar who Registrar and shall act as Secretary of the Council and who shall other officers also act as treasurer, unless the Council shall appoint another person as treasurer. Every person so appointed shall be removable at the pleasure of the Council.
(2) The Council may also employ such other persons as it may deem necessary for the purposes of this Act.
(3) All persons appointed or employed under this XLV of section shall be deemed to be public servants within 1860 the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.
11. It shall be the duty of the registrar to open Medical register and maintain, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, a register, to be called the Punjab Medical Register, and from time to time to revise the register and publish it in the prescribed manner. Such a register shall be deemed to be a of 1872 public documents within the meaning of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
12. No business shall be transacted at a meeting Meetings of of the Council unless at least 1[six] members are present. Council All questions, other than questions of order, which may come before the Council shall be decided in accordance with the votes of the majority of the members present and voting at the meeting. In the case of an equality of votes the member presiding at the meeting shall have a casting vote.
Questions of order shall be decided by the member presiding at the meeting.
13. Every person who - Persons who may be registered
(a) is for the time being registered or qualified to be registered under the British Medical Act, or
(b) is possessed of any off the qualifications described in the schedule.
1 Substituted for the word ―seven‖ by the Indian Independence (Adaptation of Bengal and Punjab Acts), Order of 1948 (G.G.O. 40) MEDICAL [1916 : Pb. Act II REGISTRATION may apply to the registrar to be registered and on payment of the prescribed fee and on furnishing to the registrar proof of such registration of qualification shall be entitled to be registered, and thereupon, but subject always to the provisos hereinafter contained, the registrar shall register him in the Punjab Medical Registrar :
Provided that any person already registered under any Medical Registration Act in force in any other 1[State] in India shall be exempted from the registration fee leviable under this clause :
Provided also, that the 2[State] Government may after consulting the Council permit the registration of (a) any person who shall furnish to the registrar proof that he is possessed of a medical degree, diploma or certificate of any University, medical college or school approved by the Council, other than those described in the schedule, and (b) any person who was actually practising medicine in 3Punjab 4[ * * 5 * *] or the Delhi 1[State], before the 25th day of September, 1915.
Provided further, that the Council may refuse to permit the registration of any person who has been convicted of any such offence as implies in the opinion of the Council a defect of character or who, after an inquiry at which opportunity has been given to the candidate to be heard in person or by pleader, has been held by the Council to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect :
Provided further, that the registrar on receiving an application for entry in the register from any person in respect of whom he considers that the Council may wish to exercise the power of refusal conferred by the last foregoing proviso may refer the application to the Council, and shall not make any entry in the register in respect of such a person.
________________________________________________________ 1 Substituted for the word ―Province‖ by the Adaptation of Laws Order,
1950.
2 Substituted for the word ―Provincial‖ by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.
3 Substituted by Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950 for ―East Punjab‖, which had been substituted for ‖the Punjab‖ by G.G.O. 40 of 1948.
4 Inserted by section 2 of Punjab Act, I of 1928.
5 The words ―or the North West Frontier Province‖ omitted by the India (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order, 1947, page 4(i).
1916 : Pb. Act II ] MEDICAL REGISTRATION until the Council informs him that the entry is permitted.
14. If any person whose name is entered in the Entry of new register obtain any title or qualification other than titles and qualithe title or qualification in respect of which he has fications in register.
been registered he shall on payment of the prescribed fee be entitled to have an entry stating such other title or qualification made against his name in the register either in substitution for or in addition to any entry previously made.
15. An appeal shall lie to the Council against any Appeal against order of the registrar under section 13 or section 14. the decision of The said appeal shall be preferred within three registrar.
months from the date of the order appealed against.