Section 13:
Recognition of medical qualifications granted by certain medical institutions whose qualifications are not included in the First of Second Schedule.
(1) The medical qualifications
granted by medical institutions in India which are not included in the First Schedule and which are
included in Part I of the Third Schedule shall also be recognised medical qualifications for the purposes of
this Act.
(2) The medical qualifications granted to a citizen of India—
(a) before the 15th day of August, 1947, by medical institutions in the territories now forming part of
Pakistan, and
(b) before the 1st day of April, 1937, by medical institutions in the territories now forming part of
Burma, which are included in Part I of the Third Schedule shall also be recognised medical qualifications
for the purposes of this Act.
(3) The medical qualifications granted by medical institutions outside India which are included in Part
II of the Third Schedule shall also be recognised medical qualifications for the purposes of this Act, but
no person possessing any such qualification shall be entitled to enrolment on any State Medical Register
unless he is a citizen of India and has undergone such practical training after obtaining that qualification
as may be required by the rules or regulations in force in the country or State granting the qualification, or
if he has not undergone any practical training in that country or State, he has undergone such practical
training as may be prescribed.
(4) The Central Government, after consulting the Council, may by notification in the Official Gazette,
amend Part II of the Third Schedule so as to include therein any qualification granted by a medical
institution outside India which is not included in the second Schedule.
(5) Any medical institution in India which is desirous of getting a medical qualification granted by it
included in Part I of the Third Schedule may apply to the Central Government to have such qualification
recognised and the Central Government, after consulting the Council, may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, amend Part I of the Third Schedule so as to include such qualification therein, and any such
notification may also direct that an entry shall be made in the last column of Part I of the Third Schedule
against such medical qualification declaring that it shall be a recognised medical only when granted after
a specified date.