Act Number: 14

Act Name: The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine 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 medical professionals of Indian System of Medicine in all parts of the country; that promotes equitable and universal healthcare that encourages community health perspective and makes services of such medical professionals accessible and affordable to all the citizens; that promotes national health goals; that encourages such 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 medical register of Indian System of Medicine 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 Indian System of Medicine 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 that order:
     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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