The Punjab Nurses Registration Act, 1932

In force 25 sections Punjab

Act 1 of 1932

Preamble

THE PUNJAB NURSES REGISTRATION ACT, 1932. PUNJAB ACT I OF 1932 Contents CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Sections Short title and commencement Definitions 2A Construction of certain reference in the Act CHAPTER-II CONSTITUTION OF COUNCIL, APPOINTMENT OF OFFICE BEARERS AND THE MAKING OF REGULATIONS Constitution of the Punjab Nurses Registration Council 3A Temporary provisions in respect of Council 3B Constitution of Punjab Nurses Registration Council for a temporary period Term of office of members Cessation of membership Removal of any member Casual vacancies how to be filled. President and Vice- President of the council Term of office of Vice-President Temointment residual ouler officers sert Quorum Power to make regulations Vacancies and irregularities not to invalidate proceedings CHAPTER-III REGISTRATION OF NURSES, HEALTH VISITORS, MIDWIVES, NURSE-DAIS, TRAINED DAIS AND DAIS Registration of nurses, health visitors, mid-wives, nurse-dais, trained dais and dais. Registers to be maintained 15A Temporary provisions in respect of registers Annual lists of nurses, health visitors, nurse-dais and trained dais. Power to prohibit unregistered persons from practicing. Power to make bye-laws Confirmation and publication of bye-laws Power of Government to make rules Bar to suits in respect of act done under this Act Exemption of registered medical practitioners from provisions of this Act. Penalty for dishonest use of certificate etc. Penalty for unlawful assumption of title of registered nurse, health visitors, midwife, nurse-dai or trained dai. Bar to persecutions under the Act Schedule [Received the assent of His Excellency the Governor on the 14th April, 1932, and that of His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor- General on the 21st May 1932, and was first published in the Punjab Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 7th June, 1932.] Legislative Amendments - Amended by Punjab Act 6 of 1936 - Amended by the Indian Independence (Adoption of Bengal and Punjab Acts) Order 1948, (G.G.O. 40) - Amended by the Adaptation of Laws Order 1950 - Amended by the Adaptation of Laws (Third Amendment) Order, 1951 - Amended by Punjab Act No. 16 of 1953 - Extended to Pepsu Territory by Punjab Act 30 of 1958 - Amended by Punjab Act 25 of 1964 - Amended by SO 1740 G.O.I, Extra Part-II, Page 1980 - Amended by Punjab Act 4 of 198 An Act to provide for the registration and better training of Nurses, Health Visitors, Midwives and dais in & [Punjab] Preamble WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the registration "[and holding of examinations] .of nurses, health visitors, midwives an dais in "[Punjab] and to secure their better training, and whereas the previous sanction of the Governor-General under section SO-A of the Government of India Act has been obtained; It is hereby enacted as follows :- 1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Punjab Gazette, 1931,Part V, pages 56-57. 2For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Punjab Gazette, 1936. Part I, page 1002 3For Statement of Objects and, Reasons. see Punjab Government Gazette, ExITaordinaT11, dated - 4th November, 1952, pp. 1309-10. 4For Statement of Objects - and Reasons, see Punjab Government Gazette (Extraordinary/), 1958, page 1494. 5Substituted for the words "East-Punjab" by the Adaptation of Laws (Third Amendment) Order, 1951. Inserted by Punjab Act No. XVI of 1953, section 2. NOTE Statement of objects and reasons "It is felt that the time has come when the interests of the increasing number of trained nurses, health visitors, midwives, nurse, dais and trained dais and of their clientele should be protected and this can be best achieved by the registration and proper control of such nurses, health visitors, midwives, nurse, dais and trained dais. Moreover, registration in itself supplied an incentive to take training and thereby improves professional standards. It is accordingly proposed to enact measures on the lines of the law in force in Great Britain where there is a Council which deals with various questions r

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