Medical Practitioners Act, 1951

Appointment of visitors of medical schools.

9.—(1) The Council may appoint persons, not being members of the Council, to visit places where instruction is given to medical students in connection with any course of study under the direction of any body or college mentioned in the Second Schedule to the Principal Act.

(2) It shall be the duty of visitors appointed under this section to report to the Council as to the sufficiency of the instruction given in the places which they visit and as to any other matters relating to such instruction which may be specified by the Council either generally or in any particular case, but no visitor shall interfere with the giving of any instruction.

(3) On the receipt of any report of a visitor under this section, the Council shall send a copy of the report to the body or college in question, and on receipt of any such copy the body or college may, within such period (not being less than one month) as the Council may have specified at the time it sent the copy of the report, make to the Council observations on the report or objections thereto.

(4) As soon as may be after the expiration of the period specified under subsection (3) of this section, the Council shall send a copy of any such report as is therein referred to and of any observations thereon or objections thereto duly made, together with the Council's comments on the report and on any such observations or objections, to the Minister.

(5) The Council may pay to visitors appointed under this section such remuneration and expenses as the Council, with the approval of the Minister, may determine.