Title : 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 : Withdrawal of Recognition
State : Central
Year : 1956
1[(1) When upon resort by the Committee or the visitor, it appears to the Council - (a) that the course of study and examination to be undergone in, or the proficiency required from candidates at any examination held by, any University or medical institution, or (b) that the-staff, equipment, accommodation, training and other facilities for instruction and training provided in such University or medical institution or in any College or other institution affiliated to that University, do not conform to the standards prescribed by the Council the Council shall make a representation to that effect to the Central Government.] (2) After considering such representation, the Central Government may send it to the State Government of the State in which the University or medical institution..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Removal of Names from the Indian Medical Register
State : Central
Year : 1956
(1)If the name of any person enrolled on a State Medical Register is removed therefrom in pursuance of any power conferred by or under any law relating toregistration of medical practitioner for the time being in force in any State,the Council shall direct the removal of the name of such person from the IndianMedical Register. (2)Where the name of any person has been removed from a State Medical Register 1 [on the ground of professional misconduct or any other groundexcept that he is not possessed of the requisite medical qualifications] orwhere any application made by the said person for restoration of his name to theState Medical Register has been rejected, he may appeal in the prescribed mannerand subject to such conditions including conditions as to the payment of a feeas may be..... 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Inspection of Examinations
State : Central
Year : 1956
1[(1) The Committee shall appoint such number of medical inspectors as it may deem requisite to inspect any medical institution, college, hospital or other institution, where medical education is given, or to attend any examination held by any University or medical institution for the purpose of recommending to the Central Government recognition of medical qualifications granted by that University of medical institution. (2) The medical inspectors shall not interfere with the conduct of any training or examination, but shall report to the Committee on the adequacy of the standards of medical education including staff, equipment, accommodation, training and other facilities prescribed for giving medical education or on the efficiency of every examination which they attend.] (3) The..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section