Medical Practitioners Act, 1978
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Dissolution of Medical Registration Council. |
7.—(1) The Medical Registration Council shall, on the establishment day, be dissolved by virtue of this section. | |
(2) All property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-action), which immediately before the establishment day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust or subject to conditions for the Medical Registration Council, and all rights, powers and privileges relating to or connected with any such property, shall on the establishment day, without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation or company, become and be vested in or the property of or held in trust or subject to conditions for (as the case may require) the Council. | ||
(3) All property transferred by this section which immediately before the establishment day was standing in the books of any bank or was registered in the books of any bank, corporation or company in the name of the Medical Registration Council shall, upon the request of the Council made at any time on or after the establishment day, be transferred in those books by the bank, corporation or company into the name of the Council. | ||
(4) Every chose-in-action transferred by this section may, on or after the establishment day, be sued upon, recovered, or enforced by the Council in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the Council to give notice to the person bound by any such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section. | ||
(5) Every debt or other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which immediately before the establishment day is owing and unpaid and is undischarged by the Medical Registration Council shall, on the establishment day, become and be the debt or liability of the Council and shall be paid and discharged by and may be recovered from and enforced against the Council accordingly. | ||
(6) Every contract which was entered into and is in force immediately before the establishment day between the Medical Registration Council and any person shall continue in force on or after the establishment day but it shall be construed and have effect as if the Council were substituted therein for the Medical Registration Council and shall be enforceable by or against the Council accordingly. | ||
(7) Where immediately before the establishment day, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Medical Registration Council is a party, the name of the Council shall be substituted for that of the Medical Registration Council and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution. | ||
(8) Section 12 of the Finance Act, 1895 , shall not apply to the vesting in the Council of the property or rights transferred by this section. | ||
(9) Any contract of service (express or implied) in force immediately before the establishment day between the Medical Registration Council and any person shall continue in force on or after the establishment day, but shall be construed and have effect as if the name of the Council were substituted therein for the name of the Medical Registration Council and every such contract shall be enforceable accordingly by or against the Council. |