In
exercise of the powers conferred by clause
(m) to clause (o) of Section 36 of the Indian
Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 (48 of
1970), the Central Council of Indian Medicine,
with the previous sanction of the Central
Government, hereby makes the following regulations,
namely :-
1. Short title
These
regulations may be called the Central Council
of Indian Medicine (Central Register of Indian
Medicine) Regulations, 1979.
2. Definitions
(a)
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires, 'Act' means the Indian Medicine
Central Council Act, 1970 (48 of 1970);
(b)
'Board' means a Board, Council, Examining
Body or faculty of Indian Medicine (by whatever
name called), constituted by the State Government
under any law for the time being in force
regulating the award of medical qualifications,
in and registration of practitioners of, Indian
Medicine ;
(c)
'Central Register of Indian Medicine' means
the register maintained by the Central Council
under section 25 of the Act ;
(d)
'President' means the President of the Central
Council elected under sub-section (2) of section
3 of the Act;
(e)
'Registrar' means the Registrar of the Central
Council appointed under clause (a) of section
12 of the Act. who shall also act as the Secretary
of the Central Council;
(f)
'Vice-President' means a Vice-President of
the Central Council elected under sub-section
(3) of the Section 3 of the Act.
3.
Maintenance and pablication of Central
Register of Indian Medicine
(1)
The Registrar shall maintain Central Register
of Indian Medicine arranged in three parts,
namely Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Systems
in an alphabetical order statewise and it
shall bear the seal of the Central Council.
(2)
The Central Register of Indian Medicine shall
also bear a preface which shall contain a
covering page with the seal of the Central
Council, names of the State Boards with whose
registers the Central Register of Indian Medicine
has been compiled, abbreviations of qualifications
shown in the Register up-to-date list of recognised
qualifications as specified in the Schedules to the Act, important sections pertaining to registration of practitioners
of Indian Medicine and also names of the President,
the Vice-President and the Members (Constituency
wise) and the Registrar of the Central Council.
4. Supply of
information by State Boards
(1)
All the State Boards shall intimate to the
Central Council the lists of registered medical
practitioners as entered in their State Registers
of Indian Medicine, who possess any the recognised
medical qualifications specified in the Second,
Third or Fourth Schedules to the Act, in the
first instance and thereafter all the new
enteries made during every Calendar year.
The State Boards shall also intimate to the
Central Council immediately any change in
name or registration of additional qualifications
or change in address or removal of any name
(as required by clause (1) of section 27 of
the Act) of a practitioner of Indian Medicine
registered with the respective State Board
as and when received.
(2)
After the publication of the first Central
Register of Indian Medicine, supplements to
the Central Register of Indian Medicine shall
be published in the Gazette of India every
year and the Central Register of Indian Medicine
shall as far as possible be .revised and published
every five years.