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   2. The Council is composed off:—

    (a) One member from each Governor's province, nominated by the
Central Government.

    (b) One member elected by each British Indian University having a
medical faculty, to be elected from amongst the members of the medical
faculty of the University.

    (c) One member from each province where a medical register is main
tained to be elected from amongst themselves by persons enrolled on the.
register who possess recognised medical qualifications or qualifications grant-
ed by a British Indian University.

    (d) Four members to be nominated by the Central Government.

   3. For the first four years of the Council's constitution the President
was nominated by the Governor General in Council, the Director-General,
Indian Medical Service having been nominated to this post. The Secretary
to the Council for four years from the commencement of the Act, was also
a Government nominee. From November 1st, 1937 the Council has
appointed the Secretary, and in February 1938 elected a President. The
Council also elects from its members a Vice-President.

   4. The Executive Committee consists of seven members, of whom five
are elected by the Council from amongst its members. The President
and Vice-President of the Council are ex-officio members and are also.
President and Vice-President respectively of the Executive Committee.

   5. A member of the Council holds office for a term of five years.

   6. The medical qualifications recognised under the Act are contained
in the two annexed schedules. The First Schedule is composed of medical
qualifications granted by medical institutions in British India, and contains,
as originally passed in the Act, the medical degrees of those British Indian
Universities which were included in Table 'I' of the Medical Register of
Great Britain for 1931, that is, all except Andhra, Patna and Rangoon
Universities. The M.B.B.S., degree of Patna University was included
by Government Notification of May 11th, 1935, and that of Rangoon
University on 10th December, 1936, on the Council's recommendation.
The non-Indian medical qualifications recognised under the Act are given
in the Second Schedule. Inclusion on the Second Schedule is sufficient
qualification for enrolment on any provincial medical register.

   7. The functions of the Council fall under two heads:—

    (1) The maintenance of a uniform minimum standard of higher medical
qualifications for the whole of British India;

    (2) The furtherance of the recognition of these qualifications in States
and Countries outside British India, with its corollary, the reciprocal
recognition in this country of approved qualifications of such States and
Countries.

   8. For the first purpose the Council has been invested by Sections
11, 15, 16 and 17 with wide powers of requiring information regarding
courses of study and examinations and of inspection of examinations, and
can make representation to the Central Government if it is satisfied that
the courses of study or examinations to be gone through in any medical