The Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914
The Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914, Act 4 of 1914, received the assent of the Governor on 6 April 1914 and the Governor-General on 27 April 1914. It provides for registering medical practitioners across Tamil Nadu, establishes a Medical Council and limits certain medical certificates and public medical appointments to registered practitioners. The supplied text incorporates later amendments and legal adaptations.
What the Act governs
The Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914 creates a system for registering medical practitioners throughout Tamil Nadu. It establishes a Medical Council, provides for a register of practitioners and sets out privileges attached to registration.
The Act concerns medical practice and administration. The supplied text does not create land ownership, planning, registration or property transaction requirements.
Who may be affected
The Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914 directly affects:
- Medical practitioners seeking registration or relying on registered status.
- Hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, dispensaries and lying-in hospitals using treatment methods approved by the Medical Council.
- Institutions appointing physicians, surgeons, medical officers or medical officers of health.
- The State Government, universities, medical colleges and registered practitioners involved in selecting Medical Council members.
A registered practitioner means a person registered under the Act.
Key provisions
The Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914 provides that:
- A certificate which the law requires a medical practitioner or medical officer to give is valid only if signed by a registered practitioner.
- Unless the State Government gives special sanction, only a registered practitioner may hold specified medical appointments in covered institutions that are not supported entirely by voluntary contributions, or serve as a medical officer of health.
- The Medical Council consists of fifteen members drawn from university medical faculties, specified medical college staff, registered practitioners and State Government nominees.
- State Government nominations must consider the claims of women, medical missions and practitioner groups not represented through the listed electorates.
- Medical Council members must be registered practitioners.
- Elected and nominated members generally hold office for five years and may be selected again.
- Seats may become vacant through resignation, specified absences, removal from the register, insolvency, expiry of term or loss of the position supporting election.
- An Executive Committee includes the president, vice-president and three annually elected Council members. The Council may delegate powers to it with prior State Government sanction.
- The registrar must maintain, revise and publish the register of medical practitioners in the prescribed manner.
The provisions governing the privileges of registered practitioners came into force on 1 June 1916. The rest of the Act came into force at once.
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Common questions
Does the Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914 affect buying or owning land?
No land or property requirements appear in the supplied text. The Act deals with medical practitioner registration, medical certificates, medical appointments and the Medical Council.
Can an unregistered doctor sign a certificate required by law?
The Act states that a certificate required by law from a medical practitioner or medical officer is valid only when signed by a registered practitioner.
Can an unregistered person be appointed as a medical officer?
Generally, only a registered practitioner may hold the specified medical appointments in covered institutions or serve as a medical officer of health. The State Government may give special sanction for an exception.
Who keeps the register of medical practitioners?
The registrar must keep, revise and publish the register of medical practitioners in the prescribed manner.
