Medical Practitioners Act, 1978

Registration of additional degrees and diplomas.

32.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, any person, who is registered in the register, may at any time after his first registration, apply in the manner and form determined by the Council to have a further qualification entered in the register in addition to his qualifications already entered therein.

(2) The Council shall determine the qualifications not being qualifications required for the purpose of registration, which, on application by any person registered in the register and on payment of the appropriate fee, may be entered in the register as additional qualifications.

(3) Whenever, on an application by any registered medical practitioner, the Council decides to enter in the register, pursuant to this section, any additional qualification in respect of that medical practitioner, the Council shall, as soon as may be after the registration has been completed, send to that medical practitioner a certificate stating that such additional qualification has been entered in the register.