Section 1: Establishment and functions of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the Council") which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue or be sued in its corporate name.
(2) The Council shall have responsibility for-
(a) determining the standards of knowledge and skill to be attained by persons seeking to become members of the medical or dental profession and reviewing those standards from time to time as circumstances may permit;
(b) securing in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the establishment and maintenance of registers of persons entitled to practise as members of the medical or dental profession and the publication from time to time of lists of those persons;
(c) reviewing and preparing from time to time, a statement as to the code of conduct which the Council considers desirable for the practice of the professions in Nigeria;
(d)
supervising and controlling the practice of homeopathy and other forms of alternative medicine;
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(e)
making regulations for the operation of clinical laboratory practical in the field of Pathology which includes Histopathology, Forensic Pathology, Autopsy and Cytology, Clinical Cytogenetics, Haematology, Medical Micro-biology and Medical Parasitology, Chemical Pathology, Clinical Chemistry, Immunology and Medical Virology; and
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(f) performing the other functions conferred on the Council by this Act.