20. Section 41 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows;
| (1) in subsection (1) thereof-
| | (a) by the addition immediately after paragraph (d) of the following new paragraph:
| | | " (e) any estate dispenser who is registered under subsection (2c) of this section as being entitled to practise medicine and surgery and whose name is for the time being in the register maintained under that subsection." ; |
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| (2) by the insertion immediately after subsection (2B) of the following subsection;
| | "(2c) any estate dispenser whether he is employed on an estate or group of estates or ceased to be so employed may, on furnishing proof to the satisfaction of the Director of Health Services that-
| | | (ii) he has within that period, served in one or more hospitals under one or more medical practitioners for an aggregate period of at least two years; and |
| (iii) he has undergone a period of training prescribed for that purpose, |
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| (3) by the repeal of subsection (3) of that section and substitution therefor of the following new subsection:
| | " (3) Provided that where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Medical Council that any person being an apothecary entitled to practise medicine and surgery under subsection (1) (b) or under subsection (1) (c) or under subsection (1) (cc) or under subsection (1) (ccc) or any estate apothecary entitled to practise medicine and surgery under subsection (1) (cc) or any estate dispenser entitled to practise medicine and surgery under subsection (1) (e) has been guilty of inefficiency or negligence in the treatment of a patient or has been guilty of conduct which shows him to be unfit to practise medicine and surgery, the Medical Council may make an order that such person be suspended from the privileges and immunities conferred on him by this section either permanently or during the period specified in the order, and where the circumstances of the case so require an order that the name of any person be erased from the register of apothecaries maintained as the case may be, under subsection (2) or subsection (2A) or subsection (2B) or an order that the name of any person be erased from the register of estate dispensers maintained under subsection (2c).". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts