“Medical Practitioner” shall include Doctors, Vaids and Jarrahs (native operators) and also other persons who, by any system, treat general or particular diseases;
“Druggist” shall mean any person who generally sells medicines;
“Medical Council” shall mean the Council appointed by the Government for the purposes of this Act, and it shall consist of eleven members, two of whom shall be medical practitioners;
“Government Department” shall mean the Secretary to Government in the Medical Department;
“Register” shall mean the register maintained in the Government Department, in the form contained in the Schedule wherein names of medical practitioners may be registered.
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Section 1 · Short title, extent and commencement.Section 3 · Medical practitioner not to claim remuneration, unless he is registered.Section 4 · Medical practitioners who may have their names registered.Section 5 · Determination of scale of fee.Section 6 · Punishment for administering medicine to patient which may be injurious or unfit for use.Section 7 · Licence for sale of medicines shall be granted.Section 8 · Power to make rules.Section 9 · Punishment for violation of rules.India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 18 Oct 2026. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.