The Council may suo-motu or on any complaint made to it on that behalf hold an inquiry as respects the misconduct of any registered practtioner for the purposes of section 22 of the Act.

Any complaint or information received in the office of the Council about the misconduct of any registered practioners shall be submitted by the Registrar to the President.

No complaint shall be entertained unless it is in writing addressed to the Council and signed by preson making it, and shall state grounds of complaint, and shall be accompained by declarations as to the facts of the case. All anonymous complaints shall be diregraded.

Every declaration shall state the descripition and true place of abode of the declarant, and where a fact state in a declaration is not within his personal knowledge, the source of the information, and grounds for the belief of the declarant in its truth shall be accu-rately and fully stated. Any declaration or part thereof which is made in contravention of this rule shall net be accepted as evidence.

If the President has reason to believe that a complaint is pseudonymous, he may call upon the complainant to furnish further praticulars,for ascertaining if the complaint is genuine.

Subject to the provisions of rule 79 the President may, on going through the complaint and all papers submitted by the complainant, instruct the Registrar to ask the practitioner by means of a registered letter for any explanation he may have to offer.

All documents pertaining to the complaint inclding any explanation forwarded by the registered practitioner shall then be referred to the Executive Committee along with the remarks of the President, if any.

The Executive Committee shall consider the complaint and may ause further investigation to be made any take such legal dvice by cousulting any legal practitioner as it may deem fit.

If the Committee is of opinion that a Prima faice case is ot made out and that the case should therefore be filed or that the circumstances of the case suggest that a warning to the practitioner would be adequate,or that the case is one where the name of the practitioners should be removed from the register, the Committee shall record its findings accordingly, and direct the Registrar to take steps for having the case heard and determined by the Council.

Where the Executive Committee is of opinion that the case should be filed or that a warning would be adequate, the Committee may require the registrar to call by a letter sent by registered post for the explanation of the registered practitioner, if any, within fifteen days of the date of receipt of that letter.

After the expiry of the time referred to in sub-rule (1), all the papers of the case including the explanation if any, of the registered practitioner, shall be referred to the Council.

In all cases in which an inquiry for purpose of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 22 is necessary an inquiry shall be held by the Council in accordance with the procedure prescribed in rules 84 to 90 and for that purpose the Council may appoint an assessor to advise it as provided in sub-section (8) of Section 22 of the Act, :

Provided that, such inquiry shall not be necessary in cases where a regiseered practitioner has been convicted for misconduct within the meaning of clauses (a) and (b) of the Explanation to sub section (1) of section 22. In such cases,the President shall obtain and place before the Council a copy of the judgement of the Court and the Council shall thereupon decide upon the penalty to be imposed under rule 91 read with section 22.

The President shall cause to be served on the registered practitioner a notice in Form 18 subject to such variations as the circumatances of the case may require.
Such notice shall specify the nature and praticulars of the charge and shall inform him of the day on which the Council intend to deal with the case, and shall call upon the practitioner to put in his written statement of his defence within a period of not less than fifteen days or such other period no exceeding sixty daus as may be permitted by tne Council, and to attend before the Council on such day. The notice shall be sent three weeks before the date of inquiry. Such charge shall be drawn cleariy and precisely.

The notice shall be accompamied by a statement of allegations on which each charge is based. The relevant allegations as to facts, the infereneces which they lead to, and the circumsuances supporting such inferneces shall be clearly mentioned along with any other circumas-ances proposed to be considered while passing orders on the case.

Copies of the relevant document if any (including any document given or sent to the Council by on behalf of the other party which such other party shall be entitled on proper proof to use at the hearing as evidence in support of or in answer to the chalge specified in the notice of inquiry) shall also be supplied to the registered practitioner along with the notice and statement of allegations.

Copies of any other documents or statement required by such practitioner to prepare his defence may also be supplied to him on request or he may be allowed to take copies.

Copies of all material documents including the written statement of defence, if any, which is placed before the Council as evidence in regard to the case shall be supplied to all members of the Council before the hearing of the case commences.

If a registered practitioner desires to have his name re-entered in the register under sub-section (4) of section 22, he shall make an application in Form 19 and specify the grounds on which the application is made. The application shall be accompained by the applicant`s of degree, diploma or licence, and also by a certificate from any Gazatted Officer of the State Government or from a justice of peace as to his good character since the removal of his name from the register.

The decision of the Council shall be communicated to the applicant, and if the Couuncil agrees to re-enter the name in the register, a fee of fifty rupees be paid by the practitioner before his name is re-entered in the register by the Registrar.