Act Number: 15

Act Name: The National Commission for Homoeopathy Act, 2020.

Year: 2020

Enactment Date: 2020-09-20

Long Title: An Act to provide for a medical education system that improves access to quality and affordable medical education, ensures availability of adequate and high quality Homoeopathy medical professionals in all parts of the country; that promotes equitable and universal healthcare that encourages community health perspective and makes services of Homoeopathy medical professionals accessible and affordable to all the citizens; that promotes national health goals; that encourages Homoeopathy medical professionals to adopt latest medical research in their work and to contribute to research; that has an objective periodic and transparent assessment of medical institutions and facilitates maintenance of a Homoeopathy medical register for India and enforces high ethical standards in all aspects of medical services; that is flexible to adapt to the changing needs and has an effective grievance redressal mechanism and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Ayush

Department:

Section 19: Composition of Autonomous Boards.
    (1) The composition of the Autonomous Boards shall be as under, namely:--
         (a) the Homoeopathy Education Board shall consist of a President and four Members from the discipline of Homoeopathy;
         (b) the Medical Assessment and Rating Board for Homoeopathy shall consist of a President from the discipline of Homoeopathy and two Members, out of whom one Member shall be from the discipline of Homoeopathy and the other Membershall be an acceditation expert;
         (c) the Board of Ethics and Registration for Homoeopathy shall consist of a President from the discipline of Homoeopathy and two Members, out of whom one Member shall be from the discipline of Homoeopathy and the other Member shall be a person who has demonstrated public record of work on medical ethics or chosen fromany ofthe disciplines of quality assurance, public health, law or patient advocacy.
     (2) The President and Members of the Autonomous Boards to be chosen under sub-section (1) shall be persons of outstanding ability, proven administrative capacity and integrity, possessing post-graduate degree in respective disciplines from a recognised University and having experience of not less than fifteen years in respective fields, out of which at least seven years shall be as a leader:
     Provided that seven years as leader in the case of the President and Member from Homoeopathy shall be in the area of health, growth and development of education in Homoeopathy.
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