AYURVEDIC MEDICAL COUNCIL

AYURVEDIC MEDICAL COUNCIL

AN ORDINANCE TO INCORPORATE AN ASSOCIATION KNOWN AS THE AYURVEDIC MEDICAL COUNCIL.

Preamble.

Whereas an association called and known as the Ayurvedic Medical Council has heretofore been established for the purpose of promoting the general advancement of Ayurvedic medicine in Ceylon and of carrying out and transacting all matters connected with the said association according to the rules, agreed to by its members :

And whereas the said association has applied to be incorporated and it will be for the public advantage to grant such application for incorporation :

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the State Council thereof as follows : –

Ordinance Nos,
46 of 1935

[28^th November
, 1935 ]

Short title.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Ayurvedic Medical Council Ordinance.

Incorporation.

2. From and after the date of the commencement of this Ordinance, the persons named in the Schedule * (who are the members of the Ayurvedic Medical Council) and such and so many persons as shall after that date be members of the Ayurvedic Medical Council (hereinafter referred to as ” the association “) shall be and become a body corporate with perpetual succession tinder the name and style of ” The Ayurvedic Medical Council” and by that name may sue and be sued in all courts.

* Schedule omitted under section 6 (1) of the Revised Edition of the Legislative Enactments Act.

General objects.

3. The general objects for which the corporation is constituted are –

(a) to promote, foster and protect the practice of Ayurvedic medicine ;

(b) to prepare and maintain a register of persons engaged in the practice of Ayurvedic medicine;

(c) to hold examinations and to issue certificates to those persons recognized by the association as competent to practise Ayurvedic medicine;

(d) to prepare a code of regulations to be observed by persons certified by the association to be competent to practise Ayurvedic medicine ;

(e) to prepare and publish and to revise from time to time after publication a pharmacopoeia for the use of persons who practise Ayurvedic medicine;

(f) to regulate the sale and dispensing of Ayurvedic drugs, medicines and preparations by persons recognized or certified by the association to be competent to dispense such drugs, medicines or preparations and to ensure that such drugs, medicines, and preparations are correctly dispensed by such persons; and

(g) to take such other measures as may be necessary for the benefit or advancement of those who practise Ayurvedic medicine in Ceylon.

Rules.

(1) It shall be lawful for the association from time to time at any general meeting of the members and by a majority of votes to make rules for any of the following purposes : –

(a) the admission, withdrawal or expulsion of members ;

(b) the powers, conduct, duties and functions of the various officers, agents and servants of the association;

(c) the procedure to be observed at meetings and in convening meetings and in the transaction of the business of the association ;

(d) the administration and management of the property of the association ;

(e) the registration of persons engaged in the practice of Ayurvedic medicine ;

(f) the conduct of examinations and the issue of certificates to persons recognized by the association as competent to practise Ayurvedic medicine or to dispense Ayurvedic drugs, medicines and preparations ;

(g) the imposition of penalties and forfeitures for breaches of the rules ; and

(h) generally the management of the affairs and the accomplishment of the objects of the association.

(2) All members of the association shall at all times be subject to the rules for the time being of the association.

Alteration of rules.

5. No rule passed at a general meeting and no decision made by the association at a general meeting shall be altered, amended, added to or cancelled except by a majority of members present and voting at any subsequent general meeting.

Power of corporation to hold property.

6. The corporation shall be able and capable in law to receive and to hold property, both movable and immovable, which may be vested in it by virtue of any purchase, grant, gift, testamentary disposition or otherwise ; and all such property shall be held by the corporation for the purposes of this Ordinance and subject to the rules for the time being of the said corporation with full power (subject to any trust attaching to such property and to the law regulating such trusts) to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same.

Vesting of property.

7. From and after the date of the commencement of this Ordinance all property of the association, both movable and immovable, whether held in the name of the association or in the name of any person in trust for the association, shall be and is hereby vested in the corporation and the same together with all after-acquired property, both movable and immovable, and all subscriptions, donations, penalties, loans and other moneys received or to be received shall be held by the said corporation for the purposes of this Ordinance and subject to the rules for the time being of the association.

Seal of corporation.

(1) It shall be competent for the corporation to have and to use a seal and to change and alter its seal from time to time.

(2) The seal of the corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument whatsoever except in the presence of two of its members who shall sign their names on the instrument in token of their presence and such signing shall be independent of the signing of any person as a witness.

Saving of rights of the Crown.

9. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, or of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

Chapter 279, Volume No.10, Page No.265.