Replaced the Indian Medical Council Act 1956. Indian systems of medicine and homoeopathy are now regulated by national commissions set up in 2020 in place of the old central councils. Some older Acts still define a registered medical practitioner by reference to the repealed 1956 Act.
The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.
Sections in the syllabus
s. 5
s. 15(3)(b)
s. 17(3)(b)
s. 27
s. 28
s. 28(c)
s. 30
s. 50(3)
s. 106(1)
s. 115
s. 134(a)
s. 200
s. 397
s. s. 30
Covered in Unit 1 · Right to Health and the Medical Profession.
s. s. 34
Covered in Unit 1 · Right to Health and the Medical Profession.
s. ss. 10, 15, 16, 31, 60, 61
Covered in Unit 1 · Right to Health and the Medical Profession.
Cases on this Act
- Pt. Parmanand Katara v Union of India (1989)
- Paschim Banga Khet Mazdoor Samity v State of West Bengal (1996)
- State of Punjab v Mahinder Singh Chawla (1997)
- Poonam Verma v Ashwin Patel (1996)
- Samira Kohli v Dr. Prabha Manchanda (2008)
- Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug v Union of India (2011)
- Common Cause (A Registered Society) v Union of India (2018)
- Dr. Tokugha Yepthomi v Apollo Hospital Enterprises (1998)
- Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority
- Jacob Mathew v State of Punjab (2005)
- Laxman Balkrishna Joshi v Trimbak Bapu Godbole (1969)
- Indian Medical Association v V.P. Shantha (1995)
- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee (1957)
- Kusum Sharma v Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre (2010)