Medical Practitioners Act, 1955

Effect of temporary registration, etc.

4.—(1) A person temporarily registered shall be deemed to be registered in the register so far as is necessary in order that the following provisions of the Principal Act, namely, sections 15 , 22 , 23 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 and subsection (2) of section 37 , may be applicable in his case, but the said provisions shall be applicable only in relation to the employment for the purpose of which such person was registered and to anything done or omitted in the course of such employment, and such person shall, in relation to any other matter, be treated as if he were not registered in the register.

(2) Every person who, for the purpose of being temporarily registered, makes or procures or causes to be made or procured or aids or abets the making or procuring of any representation which to his knowledge is false or fraudulent shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.

(3) Every person who wilfully and falsely represents himself to be or holds himself out as being a person who is temporarily registered or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is so registered shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

(4) The references in sections 22 , 23 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 33 , 34 , 35 and 36 of the Principal Act to a person registered in the register shall be construed as including references to a person temporarily registered.

(5) The Council shall so exercise its powers of making regulations under section 19 of the Principal Act as to secure that persons temporarily registered shall be registered in a separate part of the register, and that where a person who is temporarily registered becomes registered otherwise than temporarily his name shall be removed from the separate part of the register.

(6) The Council may, if it thinks fit, in lieu of or in addition to including the separate part of the register referred to in sub-section (5) of this section in the annual publication of the Medical Register of Ireland, cause a list of persons temporarily registered to be prepared at least once in each year.

(7) A list under subsection (6) of this section shall be prepared in the prescribed form and shall be compiled by reference to a date directed by the Council and specified in the list and the Council shall cause copies of the list to be available for purchase by any person on payment of the prescribed fee.

(8) A copy purporting to be a copy referred to in subsection (7) of this section which is for the time being the latest such copy shall be evidence in any court until the contrary is proved that every person whose name is entered therein is temporarily registered in accordance with this Act and that any person whose name is not entered therein is not so registered.

(9) 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 temporarily registered or that on a specified day or days or during the whole of a specified period a particular person was not temporarily registered or that on a specified day the name of a particular person was erased from the separate part of the register referred to in subsection (5) of this section shall, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign the certificate or that he was the registrar and notwithstanding any discrepancy between the certificate and any list under subsection (6) of this section or copy thereof, be conclusive evidence of the matters certified by the certificate.

(10) The form and mode of application for temporary registration and the evidence to be given by an applicant for temporary registration of his claim to be so registered shall be such as may be prescribed.