State Act

The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963

18. (1) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Registrar shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, prepare and maintain thereafter a list of persons not entitled to registration under section 17 or under the Bombay Medical Act, 1912 or the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State or any corresponding law for the time being in force in any part of the State but who have been practising any sysem of medicine other than the Homoeopathic system of medicine. (2) The list shall contain— (a) the name of every person who on the 1st May 1960 continued to be included in the list kept under section 18 of the Bomay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 in its application to the Bombay area of the State or the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State and whose name is not entered in the register under sub-section (5), (6) or (7) of section 17 ; (b) the name of every person whose case is not covered by clause (a)but who makes an application to the Registrar in the prescribed form accompanied by a fee of Rs. 10 and the prescribed documents within a period of one year from the appointed day, and who proves to the satisfaction of the Committee appointed under sub-section (8) of section 17, that he has been practising regularly any system of medicine (other than Homoeopathic system of medicine), (a) in a merged territory or a merged area from a period of not less than five yean before the 1st May 1956, or (b) in the Kutch area of the State for a period of not less than five years before the appointed day. Explanation.—For the purpose of paragraph (b) of this sub-section, the expressions "merged territory" and "merged area" shall have the meanings assigned to them in sub-section (6) of section 17. (3) The provisions of sub-sections (9) to (12) of section 17 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the list prepared under this section. (4) If the application of any person for registration under sub-section (5) or (6) or clause (a) of sub-section (7) of section 17 and the appeal, if any, under sub-section (9) of section 17 are rejected, but the Committee appointed under sub-section (8) of section 17 is satisfied that such person is entitled to have his name included in the list, the Committee shall include the name of such person in the list without such person being required to make a fresh application or to pay any additional fee.