Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Ayurveda Act (No. 31 of 1961)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.	   Short title and date of operation  
   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