(1) The Registrar shall, from time to time as occasion may require, on or before the date to be fixed in this behalf by the council, cause to be printed and published (provided that at least twelve months shall have elapsed from the date of the last publication) a correct list of the names for the time being entered in the Register under each of the two Parts, A and B, setting forth thereon--
(a) name of all registered Homoeopathic practitioners arranged in alphabetical order according to surname ;
(b) the registered address of each such person ; and
(c) the registered qualifications of each such person and the date on which qualification was obtained.
(2) The Registrar shall, from time to time as occasion arises, cause to be printed and published a list supplementary thereto, containing additions and alterations in the Register since the publication of the list under sub-section (1).
(3) Every court shall presume that any person whose name is entered in the latest list printed and published under sub-section (1) read with the latest list supplementary thereto, if any, printed and published under subsection (2) is duly registered under this Act, and that any person whose name is not so entered is not registered under this Act :
Provided that, in the case of any person whose name does not appear in the latest list printed and published under sub-section (1) read with the latest list supplementary thereto, if any, printed and published under subsection (2), a certified copy, signed by the Registrar, of the entry of the name Penalty for improper assumption of Homoeopathic qualifications.
Publication and use of registration list.
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35. A Registered Homoeopathic practitioner shall be entitled--
(a) to grant a death certificate required by any law or rule to be signed or authenticated by a duly qualified medical practitioner or medical Officer ;
(b) to grant a medical or physical fitness certificate required by any law or rule to be signed or authenticated by a duly qualified medical practitioner or medical officer ;
(c) to give evidence at any inquest or in any court of law as an expert under section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
36. Except with the special sanction of the State Government, no Homoeopathic practitioner other than a registered Homoeopathic practitioner whose name is entered in Part A of the register shall be comptent to hold any appointment as a Physician, medical Officer or teacher, in any Homoeopathic Hospital, asylum infirmary, dispensary, or lying-in-hospital, which is supported wholly or partially by grants made by the State Government, the council, or a local authority, or in any Homoeopathic educational institutions which is so supported or which is affiliated under clause (a) of section 17 :
Provided that a registered Homoeopathic practitioner whose name is entered in Part B of the Register shall be competent to hold any such appointment if he has held any such appointment from a date prior to the publication of this Act in the official Gazette.
37. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie in respect of any act or thing done or omitted to be done in the exercise or purported exercise of any power conferred by or under this Act on the State Government or the Council or the Executive Committee or any Committee appointed by the Council or the Registrar.
38. No act or thing done by the Council, the Executive Committee or a Committee appointed by the Council shall be invalid merely on the ground of any vacancy in or defect in its composition.
Certain prevellages of registered Homoeopathic practitioners.
Homoeopathic practtiioners other than those registered under part A, of the Register not eligible for certain appointments.
Bar of suit or other legal proceedings.
Validation.
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