Medical Practitioners Act, 1927

Persons entitled to be registered after the establishment of the register.

25.—(1) After the establishment of the register the following persons shall, on making the prescribed application and paying the prescribed fee, be entitled (save as is otherwise provided by this section) to be registered in the register, that is to say:—

(a) every person who is at the time of such application registered in the General Register, and

(b) every person who is at the time of such application possessed of one or more of the qualifying diplomas mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act granted as a result of his having passed a qualifying examination.

(2) No person whose name shall have been erased under this Act from the register on account of his having been convicted of a felony, misdemeanour, crime, or offence or his having been judged by the Council to have been guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect shall be entitled to be registered in the register under this section solely by reason of his being registered in the General Register.

(3) A person not previously registered in the register shall not be entitled to be registered therein under this section if at any time before his application for such registration his name has been erased from the General Register on account of his having been convicted of a felony, misdemeanour, crime, or offence or his having been judged by the General Council to have been guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect.

(4) The fee to be payable for registration in the register in right of being registered in the General Register shall not exceed the fee payable for such registration in any other right.