| 1.
| | This Act may be cited as the Ayurveda Act, No. 31 of 1961, and shall come into operation on such date (hereinafter referred to as the " appointed date ") as may be appointed by the Minister by Order published in the Gazette.* |
| 2.
| | A Department of Ayurveda to be established. |
| 3.
| | Appointment of the Commissioner for Ayurveda and other officers. |
| 4.
| | Delegation of the Commissioner's powers and duties. |
| 5.
| | Minister's power to authorize any officer to exercise or perform any power or duty of a Deputy Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner for Ayurveda. |
| 6.
| | Commissioner to be subject to directions of Minister. |
| 7.
| | Objects of the Department. |
| 8.
| | Establishment and maintenance of ayurvedic hospitals, &c. by the Commissioner. |
| 9.
| | Financial assistance by the Commissioner. |
| 10.
| | Ayurvedic hospitals, pharmacies, dispensaries and stores to be registered. |
| 11.
| | Constitution of the Ayurvedic Medical Council |
| 12.
| | Term of office of members of the Council, |
| 13.
| | Vacation of office by members of Council. |
| 14.
| | Filling up of vacancies. |
| 15.
| | The President and the Vice-President of the Council. |
| 16.
| | Quorum. |
| 17.
| | Regulation of procedure of the Council |
| 18.
| | The Council to be the authority responsible for the registration of ayurvedic practitioners, ayurvedic pharmacists and ayurvedic nurses and the regulation and control of their professional conduct. |
| 19.
| | Registrar and other officers and servants of the Council. |
| 20.
| | The Council to be a body corporate. |
| 21.
| | Funds of the Council |
| 22.
| | The Ayurvedic College and Hospital Board. |
| 23.
| | Term of office of members of the Board. |
| 24.
| | Vacation of office by members of the Board. |
| 25.
| | Filling up of vacancies. |
| 26.
| | Chairman of the Board. |
| 27.
| | Quorum |
| 28.
| | Regulation of proceedings of the Board- |
| 29.
| | Delegation of powers, functions or duties of the Board to committees. |
| 30.
| | Powers of the Board. |
| 31.
| | Registrar of the College. |
| 32.
| | Expenditure of the Board. |
| 33.
| | Constitution of the Ayurvedic Research Committee. |
| 34.
| | Tenure of office of members of the Committee. |
| 35.
| | Vacation of office by members of the Committee. |
| 36.
| | Filling up of vacancies. |
| 37.
| | Chairman of the Committee. |
| 38.
| | Quorum. |
| 39.
| | Regulation of proceedings of the Committee. |
| 40.
| | Expenditure of the Committee. |
| 41.
| | Duties of the Committee, |
| 42.
| | Definition of the expression " Body " for the purposes of this Part. |
| 43.
| | A Body to be subject to general and special directions of the Minister. |
| 44.
| | Proceedings of any Body. |
| 45.
| | Remuneration for attendance at a meeting of a Body. |
| 46.
| | Protection for action taken under this Act or on the direction of a Body. |
| 47.
| | No writ to issue against person or property of a member of a Body. |
| 48.
| | A Body deemed to be a scheduled institution within the meaning of the Bribery Act. Cap. 26. |
| 49.
| | Power of a Body to make rules. |
| 50.
| | Definition of certain expressions for the purposes of this Part. |
| 51.
| | Registers. |
| 52.
| | Applications for registration as ayurvedic practitioners. |
| 53.
| | Applications for registration as ayurvedic pharmacists and ayurvedic nurses. |
| 54.
| | Applications for registration by persons whose registration has been previously cancelled. |
| 55.
| | Qualifications for registration as an ayurvedic practitioner. |
| 56.
| | Qualifications for registration as an ayurvedic pharmacist or ayurvedic nurse. |
| 57.
| | Grounds on which registration may be refused, cancelled or suspended, |
| 58.
| | Service of copies of orders made by the Council. |
| 59.
| | Effect of orders made by the Council and duty of Registrar to give effect to such orders. |
| 60.
| | Registration fee. |
| 61.
| | Certificate of registration. |
| 62.
| | Insertion of additional qualifications in the registers. |
| 63.
| | Appeals. |
| 64.
| | Use of the title "Vaidyacarya ". |
| 65.
| | Meaning of " legally or duly qualified practitioner of ayurveda ". |
| 66.
| | Meaning of "legally or duly qualified ayurvedic pharmacist". |
| 67.
| | Privileges of registered ayurvedic practitioners. |
| 68.
| | Disabilities of unregistered ayurvedic practitioners. |
| 69.
| | Pretence to be a registered ayurvedic practitioner, or practising for gain as an ayurvedic practitioner when not registered to be an offence. |
| 70.
| | Registered ayurvedic pharmacists and registered ayurvedic nurses entitled to practise. |
| 71.
| | Pretence to be a registered ayurvedic pharmacist or a registered ayurvedic nurse to be an offence. |
| 72.
| | Practising for gain as an ayurvedic pharmacist or ayurvedic nurse when not registered to be an offence. |
| 73.
| | Certain persons deemed to be registered as ayurvedic practitioners under this Act. |
| 74.
| | Continuation in employment of members of the Department of Indigenous Medicine. |
| 75.
| | Amendment of other written laws, &c., consequent on the change of designation of the Commissioner of Indigenous Medicine, and savings for contracts, &c. |
| 76.
| | Change of name of the College of Indigenous Medicine and the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine and consequential provisions. |
| 77.
| | Ayurvedic Code. |
| 78.
| | Contravention of regulations an offence. |
| 79.
| | Offences in relation to registered ayurvedic hospitals, pharmacies, dispensaries and stores. |
| 80.
| | Punishment for offences under this Act. |
| 81.
| | Duty of Registrar-General to notify the deaths of registered ayurvedic practitioners, registered ayurvedic pharmacists and registered ayurvedic nurses. Cap. 110. |
| 82.
| | Regulations. |
| 83.
| | Chapter 105 not to apply to the practice of medicine, surgery, pharmacy or nursing according to ayurveda. |
| 84.
| | Repeal of section 40 of Chapter 105. |
| 85.
| | Amendment of Chapter 216, |
| 86.
| | Modification of Chapter 218, |
| 87.
| | Repeal of Chapters 106 and 279. |
| 88.
| | Transfer of property of Board of Indigenous Medicine to the Crown. |
| 89.
| | Interpretation. |