Medical Practitioners Act, 1927

The medical register.

31.—(1) The Council shall in every year cause to be printed, published, and sold under the title “The Medical Register of Saorstát Eireann” (in this Act referred to as the medical register) a correct list, in such form as shall be prescribed by the Council with the approval of the Minister, of the names of all persons whose names are entered in the register on the 1st day of January of such year.

(2) The Council may if it so thinks proper with the consent of the Minister refrain from publishing the medical register in the year in which the register is established, but if the Council does publish the medical register in such year such medical register shall be a list of the names of all persons whose names are entered in the register on the day after the establishment of the register.

(3) The Council may with the approval of the Minister arrange in any medical register the names of foreign practitioners in a separate list and may also with the like approval sub-divide such separate list into separate sub-lists containing respectively the names of persons trained and registered in British possessions, the self-governing dominions, and foreign countries.

(4) The list and every separate list and sub-list of names of persons to be contained in the medical register under this section shall be arranged in such list, separate list, or sub-list in alphabetical order of surnames and, in the case of persons having the same surname, in alphabetical order of Christian names, and shall contain after or opposite the name of every such person his address and qualifications as stated in the register on the appropriate 1st day of January or, in the case of the medical register published in the year in which the register is established, on the day after the establishment of the register.

(5) A copy purporting to be a copy printed and published by or for the Council under this section of the medical register which is for the time being the latest medical register so printed and published shall be evidence in any court until the contrary is proved that every person whose name is entered in such medical register is registered in the register under and in accordance with this Act and that any person whose name is not entered in such medical register is not so registered.

(6) A certificate purporting to be signed by the registrar and to certify that on a specified day or days or during the whole of a specified period a particular person was duly registered in the register or that on a specified day or days or during the whole of a specified period a particular person was not registered in the register or that on a specified day the name of a particular person was erased from the register shall without proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign such certificate or that he was the registrar and notwithstanding any discrepancy between such certificate and the medical register be conclusive evidence of the matters certified in and by such certificate.