State Act

The Punjab Nurses Registration Act, 1932

5. Cessation membership - A member of the Council shall be deemed to have vacated his seat- (a) if he submits his resignation in writing to the president of the Council; (b) if he has, in the opinion of the Council with out sufficient excuse, been absent from three consecutive meetings of the Council; 2[(c) if he has been absent out of India for more than one year continuously; (d) if in the case of a member under clause (c), (d) or (e) of sub-section (2) of section 3; he ceases to be a registered nurse, a registered health visitor or a registered midwife, as the case may be;] (e) if he refuses to act or becomes, in the opinion of the Council, incapable of acting, or has been declared a bankrupt or an insolvent or has been convicted of any such offence or subjected by a criminal court to any such order as implies, in the opinion of the Council, a defect of character, which unfits him to be a member.