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 38: Special provision in certain cases for recognition of qualifications.
    Where the Commission deems it necessary so to do, it may, by notification, direct that any qualification in Homoeopathy granted by a medical institution outside India, after such date, as may be specified in that notification, shall be recognised qualification for the purposes of this Act:
     Provided that medical practice by a person possessing such qualification shall be permitted only if such person has been enrolled as a medical practitioner in accordance with the law regulating the registration of medical practitioner for the time being in force in that country:
     Provided further that medical practice by a person possessing such qualification shall be limited to such period as may be specified in thatorder:
     Provided also that medical practice by a person possessing such qualification shall be permitted only if such person qualifies National Exit Test.
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