Alterationis
Lo the register.
Dis- ciplinary powers of Council
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19. (1) The Registrar may amend any entry in the register if any alteration in or addition to the address or qualification of or other relevant information relating to the person named in such entry shall have come to his knowledge.
(2) The Registrar shall make such amendments to the register as are made necessary by any decision of the Council.
PART IV.
Disciplinary Proceedings, and Offences.
20. (1) If, after due inquiry, the Council is satisfied that any registered medical practitioner-
(a) has been convicted in the Colony or elsewhere of any
offence punishable with imprisonment;
(b) has been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional
respect;
(c) has obtained registration by fraud or misrepresentation;
or
(d) was not at the time of his registration entitled to be
registered,
the Council may, in its discretion-
(i) order the name of the registered medical practitioner to
be erased from the register; or
(ii) order the name of the registered medical practitioner to be removed from the register for such period as it may think fit; or
(iii) order the registered medical practitioner to be reprimand-
ed; or
(iv) postpone judgment on the case for a period or periods,
in the aggregate, not exceeding two years,
and may, in any case, make such order as the Council thinks fil with regard to the payment of the costs of the Registrar and of any complainant or of the registered medical practitioner, and any costs awarded may be recovered summarily as a civil debt in accordance with the provisions of sections 65 and 66 of the (Cap. 227), Magistrates Ordinance.
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(2) For the purpose of subsection (1)—
"due inquiry" means an inquiry by the Council conducted substantially in accordance with procedure prescribed by regulations made under section 31.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the Council to inquire into the question whether the registered medical practitioner was properly convicted but the Council may consider any record of the case in which such conviction was recorded and any other evidence which may be available and is relevant as showing the nature and gravity of the offence.
(4) In any inquiry under this section whether a person las [ef, 4 & 6
Elis. 3. been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect, any 78, finding of fact which is shown to have been made in any 8. 33(2)] matrimonial proceedings in a court of the Commonwealth having unlimited jurisdiction in civil matters, or on appeal from a decision in such proceedings, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact found.
(5) Within one month after the expiry of the time within which an appeal, against an order made by the Council in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1), may be made to the Full Court in accordance with the provisions of section 25, or if such appeal has been made, within one month after the decision of the Full Court affirming or varying such order, the Council shall cause the order or the order as so varied, as the case may be, to be published in the Gaselle and may cause an account of the proceedings at the inquiry at which such order was made, to be so published. There shall also be published in the Gazette along with such order sufficient particulars to acquaint the general public of the nature of the offence to which the order relates.
21. (r) For the purposes of an inquiry under section 20 the Powers of Council shall have the following powers-
(4) to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath;
Council in
regard to obtaining
of evidence and
inga.
(b) to summon any person to attend the inquiry to give conduct at
evidence or produce any document or other thing in his proceed. possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession, subject to all just exceptions;