Medical Practitioners Act, 1955
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Registration of visiting postgraduate medical students. |
5.—(1) The Council may prepare and establish a register to be known as the Register of Visiting Postgraduate Medical Students. | |
(2) Where the Council is satisfied— | ||
(a) that a person is or intends to be in the State for the purpose of obtaining a qualification (other than a qualifying diploma) in medicine, surgery or midwifery granted by any of the colleges or bodies mentioned in the Second Schedule to the Principal Act, and | ||
(b) that such person holds a degree or diploma which, in the opinion of the Council, affords sufficient guarantee that he possesses the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of medicine, surgery and midwifery and passed the examination appropriate for obtaining such degree or diploma, | ||
the Council may, upon such person's making the prescribed application and paying such fee as may be prescribed with the consent of the Minister, register such person in the Register of Visiting Postgraduate Medical Students. | ||
(3) A person registered under this section shall cease to be so registered upon his obtaining the qualification in respect of which he was so registered or on such earlier date as may be determined by the Council at its discretion. | ||
(4) Sections 15 and 22 and subsection (2) of section 37 of the Principal Act shall apply in relation to the Register of Visiting Postgraduate Medical Students in like manner as these provisions apply in relation to the Register of Medical Practitioners. | ||
(5) The name of a person registered in the Register of Visiting Postgraduate Medical Students shall be deemed to be included in the Register of Medical Practitioners for the purposes of any requirement of the college or body granting the qualification in respect of which he was registered in the Register of Visiting Postgraduate Medical Students and for no other purpose. |