APPENDIX –4

LIST OF CERTIFICATES, REPORTS, NOTIFICATIONS ETC. ISSUED BY DOCTORS FOR THE PURPOSES OF VARIOUS ACTS / ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS

1. Under the acts relating to birth, death or disposal of the dead.
2. Under the Acts relating to Lunacy and Mental Deficiency and under the Mental illness Act and the rules made thereunder.
3. Under the Vaccination Acts and the regulations made thereunder.
4. Under the Factory Acts and the regulations made thereunder.
5. Under the Education Acts.
6. Under the Public Health Acts and the orders made thereunder.
7. Under the Workmen’s Compensation Act and Persons with Disability Act.
8. Under the Acts and orders relating to the notification of infectious diseases.
9. Under the Employee’s State Insurance Act.
10. In connection with sick benefit insurance and friendly societies.
11. Under the Merchant Shipping Act.
12. For procuring / issuing of passports.
13. For excusing attendance in courts of Justice, in public services, in public offices or in ordinary employment.
14. In connection with Civil and Military matters.
15. In connection with matters under the control of Department of Pensions.
16. In connection with quarantine rules.
17. For procuring driving licence.

(Published in Part III, Section 4 of the Gazette of India, dated 22nd February, 2003)

                                   MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA
                                              NOTIFICATION

New Delhi,                                                                         dated 2003

No.MCI-211(2)2002-Regn.- In exercise of the powers conferred under section 20A read with section 33(m) of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), the Medical Council of India, with the previous approval of the Central Government, hereby makes the following amendments to the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, namely:- 

Short Title and Commencement: (i) These Regulations may be called the Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003. 

(ii) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

(2) In the Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, the regulations, 7.23 and 7.24 appearing under Chapter 7, shall be omitted. 

(Published in Part III, Section 4 of the Gazette of India, Extraordinary dated 27th May, 2004)

                         MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA
                                             NOTIFICATION
New Delhi,                                                           dated 11th March, 2002

No. MCI-211(2)/2004-(Ethical). - In exercise of the powers conferred under section 20A read with section 33(m) of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), the Medical Council of India, with the previous approval of the Central Government, hereby makes the following amendments to the Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, namely:-

(1) Short Title and Commencement: (i) These Regulations may be called the Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004.

(2) In the Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, after the regulation 8.6 appearing under Chapter 8, the following regulations, shall be added: 

“8.7 Where either on a request or otherwise the Medical Council of India is informed that any complaint against a delinquent physician has not been decided by a State Medical Council within a period of six months from the date of receipt of complaint by it and further the MCI has reason to believe that there is no justified reason for not deciding the complaint within the said prescribed period, the Medical Council of India may-

(i) Impress upon the concerned State Medical council to conclude and decide the complaint within a time bound schedule;
(ii) May decide to withdraw the said complaint pending with the concerned State Medical Council straightaway or after the expiry of the period which had been stipulated by the MCI in accordance with para(i) above, to itself and refer the same to the Ethical Committee of the Council for its expeditious disposal in a period of not more than six months from the receipt of the complaint in the office of the Medical Council of India.” 

“8.8 Any person aggrieved by the decision of the State Medical Council on any complaint against a delinquent physician, shall have the right to file an appeal to the MCI within a period of 60 days from the date of receipt of the order passed by the said Medical Council: 

Provided that the MCI may, if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from presenting the appeal within the aforesaid period of 60 days, allow it to be presented within a further period of 60 days.

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8,
Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4