Medical Practitioners Act, 1978

PART III

Registration

Establishment of the register.

26.—(1) As soon as may be after the establishment of the Council the Council shall prepare and establish a register of medical practitioners (in this Act referred to as the register) to be known as the General Register of Medical Practitioners.

(2) The register shall be in such form as the Council shall specify and shall indicate whether each person whose name is registered therein is fully registered, provisionally registered or temporarily registered.

(3) Every person whose name is entered in the register shall, as soon as may be after his registration has been completed, be sent by the Council a certificate stating that his name has been entered in the register.

(4) Every person whose name is entered in the register shall, as soon as may be after he has received the certificate specified in subsection (3) of this section, cause the said certificate to be displayed at the place where he conducts the practice of medicine at all times during which his registration continues and at no other time.

(5) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Medical Praticitioners Act, 1927, effected by this Act, the Register of Medical Practitioners prepared and established by the Medical Registration Council under that Act shall be maintained and kept by the Council until such time as the Council prepares and establishes the register pursuant to subsection (1) of this section and the Register of Medical Practitioners shall until that time be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be the register.