Title : Incorporation of the Council
State : Central
Year : 1956
The Council so constituted shall be a body corporate by the name of the Medical Council of India, having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, and to contract, and shall by the said name sue and be sued. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power to Require Information as to Courses of Study and Examinations
State : Central
Year : 1956
Every University or medical institution in India which grants a recognised medical qualification shall furnish such information as the Council may, from time to time, require as to the courses of study and examinations to be undergone in order to obtain such qualification, as to the ages at which such courses of study and examinations are required to be undergone and such qualification is conferred and generally as to the requisites for obtaining such qualification. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Recognition of Medical Qualifications Granted by Universities or Medical Institutions in India
State : Central
Year : 1956
(1) The medical qualifications granted by any University or medical institution in India which are included in the First Schedule shall be recognised medical qualifications for the purposes of this Act. (2) Any University or medical institution in India which grants a medical qualification not included in the First Schedule may apply to the Central Government to have such qualification recognised, and the Central Government, after consulting the Council, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the First Schedule so as to include such qualification therein, and any such notification may also direct that an entry shall be made in the last column of the First Schedule against such medical qualification declaring that it shall be a recognised medical qualification only when..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Recognition of Medical Qualifications Granted by Medical Institutions in Countries with Which there is a Scheme of Reciprocity
State : Central
Year : 1956
(1) The medical qualifications granted by medical institutions outside India which are included in the Second Schedule shall be recognised medical qualifications for the purposes of this Act. (2) The Council may enter into negotiations with the Authority in any country outside India which by the law of such country is entrusted with the maintenance of a register of medical practitioners, for the settling of a scheme of reciprocity for the recognition of medical qualifications and in pursuance of any such scheme, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette amend the Second Schedule so as to include therein the medical qualification which the Council has decided should be recognised, and any such notification may also direct that an entry shall be made in the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Special Provision in Certain Cases for Recognition of Medical Qualification Granted by Medical Institutions in Countries with Which there is No Scheme of Reciprocity
State : Central
Year : 1956
(1)The Central Government after consultation withthe Council may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that medicalqualifications granted by medical institutions in any 1 [***] country outside India in respect of which a scheme ofreciprocity for the recognition of medical qualifications is not in force, shallbe recognised medical qualifications for the purposes of this Act or shall besoonly when granted after a specified date: 2 [Providedthat medical practice by persons possessing such qualifications- (a)shall be permitted only if such persons are enrolled as medical practitioners inaccordance with the law regulating the registration of medical practitionersfor. the time being in force in that country; (b)shall be limited to the institution to which they are attached..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Minimum Standards of Medical Education
State : Central
Year : 1956
1[SECTION 19A - Minimum standards of medical education (1) The Council may prescribe the minimum standards of medical education required for granting recognised medical qualifications (other than post-graduate medical qualifications) by Universities or medical institutions in India. (2) Copies of the draft regulations and of all subsequent amendments thereof shall be furnished by the Council to all State Governments and the Council shall, before submitting the regulations or amendment thereof, as the case may be, to the Central Government for sanction, take into consideration the comments of any State Government received within three months from the furnishing of copies aforesaid. (3) The Committee shall from time to time report to the Council on the efficacy of the regulations..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Supply of Copies of the State Medical Registers
State : Central
Year : 1956
EachState Medical Council shall supply to the Council 1 [six] printed copies of the State Medical Register as soon as maybe after the commencement of this Act and subsequently after the first day ofApril of each year, and each Registrar of a State Medical Council shall informthe Council without delay of all additions to and other amendments in the StateMedical Register made from time to time. _________________________ 1.Substitutedby the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Act, 1964 (Act 24 of 1964), w.e.f16.06.1964. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Privileges of Persons Who Are Enrolled on the Indian Medical Register
State : Central
Year : 1956
Subject to the conditions and restrictions laid down in this Act regarding medical practice by persons possessing certain recognised medical qualifications, every person whose name is for the time being borne on the Indian Medical Register shall be entitled according to his qualifications to practice as a medical practitioner in any part of India and to recover in due course of law in respect of such practice any expenses, charges in respect of medicaments or other appliances, or any fees to which he may be entitled. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Definition
State : Central
Year : 1956
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "approved institution" means a hospital, health centre or other such institution recognised by a University as an institution in which a person may undergo the training, if any, required by his course of study before the award of any medical qualification to him; (b) "Council" means the Medical Council of India constituted under this Act; (c) 1 [***]; (d) "Indian Medical Register" means the medical register maintained by the Council; (e) "medical institution" means any institution, within or without India, which grants degrees, diplomas or licences in medicine; (f) "medicine" means modern scientific medicine in all its branches and includes surgery and obstetrics, but does not include veterinary medicine and surgery; ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Term of Office of President, Vice-president and Members
State : Central
Year : 1956
(1) The President or Vice-President of the Council shall hold office for a term not exceeding beyond the expiry of his term as member of the Council. (2) Subject to the provisions of this section, a member shall hold office for a term of five years from the date of his nomination or election or until his successor shall have been duly nominated or elected, whichever is longer. (3) An elected or nominated member shall be deemed to have vacated his seat if he is absent without excuse, sufficient in the opinion of the Council, from three consecutive ordinary meetings of the Council or, in the case of a member elected under cl. (b) of sub-section (1) of section 3, if he ceases to be a member of the medical faculty of the University concerned, or in the case of a member elected under..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section