Medical Practitioners Act, 1951

Effect of provisional registration, etc.

8.—(1) Persons provisionally registered shall be deemed to be registered in the register so far as is necessary—

(a) to enable them to be employed as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 3 of this Act,

(b) in order that the provisions of this Act relating expressly to provisional registration may be applicable in their case,

(c) in order that the following provisions of the Principal Act, namely, sections 15, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33 and subsection (2) of section 37, may be applicable in their case,

(d) for the purposes of the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 23 of 1927), and

(e) for the purpose of any such enactment or instrument, or such other purposes, as the Minister may by order direct,

but not further.

(2) Every person who, for the purpose of being provisionally registered, makes or procures or causes to be made or procured or aids or abets the making or procuring of any representation which to his knowledge is false or fraudulent shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.

(3) Every person who wilfully and falsely represents himself to be or holds himself out as being a person who is provisionally registered or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is so registered shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.

(4) The references in sections 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 and 33 of the Principal Act to a person registered in the register shall be construed as including references to a person provisionally registered.

(5) The Council shall so exercise its powers of making regulations under section 19 of the Principal Act as to secure that persons provisionally registered shall be registered in a separate part of the register, and that on a person's becoming registered otherwise than provisionally his name shall be removed from the separate part of the register.

(6) The Council may, if it thinks fit, in lieu of or in addition to, including the separate part of the register referred to in sub section (5) of this section in the annual publication of the Medical Register of Ireland, cause a list of persons provisionally registered to be prepared at least twice in each year.

(7) A list under subsection (6) of this section shall be prepared in the prescribed form and shall be compiled by reference to a date directed by the Council and specified in the list and the Council shall cause copies of the list to be available for purchase by any person on payment of the prescribed fee.

(8) A copy purporting to be a copy referred to in subsection (7) of this section which is for the time being the latest such copy shall be evidence in any court until the contrary is proved that every person whose name is entered therein is provisionally registered in accordance with this Act and that any person whose name is not entered therein is not so registered.

(9) A certificate purporting to be signed by the registrar and to certify that on a specified day or days or during the whole of a specified period a particular person was duly provisionally registered or that on a specified day or days or during the whole of a specified period a particular person was not provisionally registered or that on a specified day the name of a particular person was erased from the separate part of the register referred to in subsection (5) of this section shall, without proof of the signature of the person purporting to sign the certificate or that he was the registrar and notwithstanding any discrepancy between the certificate and any list under subsection (6) of this section or copy thereof, be conclusive evidence of the matters certified by the certificate.

(10) The form and mode of application for provisional registration and the evidence to be given by an applicant for provisional registration of his title to be so registered shall be such as may be prescribed.