MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS ACT

Section 7: Publication of registers and list of corrections.

1988Section 7 of 22Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) It shall be the duty of the Registrar-
(a) to cause the registers to be printed, published and put on sale to members of the public not later than two years from the beginning of the year in which this Act comes into force;
(b) in each year after that in which a register is first published under paragraph (a) of this subsection, to cause to be printed, published and put on sale as aforesaid either a corrected edition of the register or a list of alterations made to the register since it was last printed; and
(c) to cause a print of each edition of the register and of each list of corrections to be deposited at the principal offices of the Council.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Council to keep the registers and lists of corrections deposited under subsection (1) of this section open at all reasonable time for inspection by members of the public.
(3) A document purporting to be a print of an edition of a register published under this section by authority of the Registrar in the current year, or documents purporting to be prints of an edition of a register so published in a previous year and of a list of corrections to that edition so published in the current year, shall (without prejudice to any other mode of proof) be admissible in any proceedings as evidence that any person specified in the documents, or the documents read together, as being fully or provisionally registered or as being registered for a limited period as a medical practitioner or a dental surgeon, is so registered, and that any person not so specified is not so registered.

Cite this section

Section 7, MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS ACT (1988).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/medical-and-dental-practitioners-act/section/7/