LAW N0 30/2001 OF 12/1/2001 ON THE ORGANISATION, FUNCTIONNING AND SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL
The Medical Council is described as responsible for keeping moral principles for the medical profession.
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The Medical Council is described as responsible for keeping moral principles for the medical profession. This article defines “Medical Doctor” and “medical art.” A person may not practice medicine unless registered with the regional office mentioned in the article, and registration requires a recognized medical degree and good morals; an exemption may be granted to non-registered doctors on advice of the National Council. A person cannot be registered with more than one regional office. A doctor’s registration application must be sent to the President of the National Council with required documents. The National Council cannot refuse registration on discriminatory grounds, but it may refuse if the applicant committed a serious offence harming the dignity of the medical profession, and the refusal decision must state the offences relied on.
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Article 2
AI-assisted research summary: The Medical Council is described as responsible for keeping moral principles for the medical profession.
Article 2: This Medical Council profession. By this right, essential as weIl as code and rules of medical ethics. rules, of the honour and dignity of the medical honesty and devotion, which are for the practice of the medical art and of the observance. by all its members, of professional dui(;s is in charge of keeping moral principles, is the !,'Uardian of the ethical it CHAPTER 11: STRUCTURE AND MEMBERSHIP - 3 Verify source ↗
Article 3
AI-assisted research summary: This article defines “Medical Doctor” and “medical art.”
Article 3: The Medical Council Rwanda. includes by order in its ranks. all doctors authorised to practice IIK:ir prol(:~siollIn A Medical Doctor is every person qualified to practice the medical art after obtaining an official dOCllIIIUI! of qualification s:lIlcLioning a specified period of studies. The medical art means the art of preventing and healing human diseases :md rehabilita\Joll. I / J. O. n° 23 du 01/12/2001 -50- - 4 Verify source ↗
Article 4
AI-assisted research summary: A person may not practice medicine unless registered with the regional office mentioned in the article, and registration requires a recognized medical degree and good morals; an exemption may be granted to non-registered doctors on advice of the National Council.
Article 4: Nobody can practice the medical profession if he/she is not registered with the regional office of the the Minister having Health in Medical Council where he/she exercises hislher main activities. However, hislher portfolio, on advice of the National Council, may grant an exemption to non-registered doctors. Nobody can be registered with the Regional Office of the Medical Council unless he/she is holding a recognized university degree in medicine and is of good morals. - 5 Verify source ↗
Article 5
AI-assisted research summary: A person cannot be registered with more than one regional office.
Article 5: Nobody can be registered with more than one regional office. All the regional offices together make up the national office of the Medical Council. . sb - 6 Verify source ↗
Article 6
AI-assisted research summary: A doctor’s registration application must be sent to the President of the National Council with required documents. The National Council cannot refuse registration on discriminatory grounds, but it may refuse if the applicant committed a serious offence harming the dignity of the medical profession, and the refusal decision must state the offences relied on.
Article 6: Application for registration is sent documents: to the President of the National Council together with the following - a copy of a recognized degree or a recognized equivalent qualification in medicine; - a copy of( non)criminal - where appropriate applicant was a member. of respectability a certificate record; issued by a foreign Medical Council of which the The National Council cannot refuse registering a doctor on the national office lists based on rank, ethnicity, the social or religious affiliations, doctor originates from some grouping or based on any other sort of discrimination. inclinations, gender or due to the fact ideological beliefs, political that the National Council can refuse registering However, a Doctor on the list of doctors when the applicant has committed a serious offence causing harm to the dignity of the medical profession but such a decision must state the offences it has based up on. The decision of the National Council may be subject Instance depending on where the headquarters of the National Council is located. to court and is first forwarded to the Court of First TITLE D: ORGANS OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL CHAPTER I: DIFFERENT ORGANS OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL - 7 Verify source ↗
Article 7
AI-assisted research summary: The Medical Council is made up of two organs: the National Council and the Regional Councils.
Article 7: The Medical Council has two organs: - National Council; - Regional Councils. - 8 Verify source ↗
Article 8
AI-assisted research summary: The Medical Council acts through its organs and is represented by the President of the National Council, or by the Vice-President if the President is absent.
Article 8: The Medical Council acts through its organs. It is represented by the President of the National Council, and in case of hislher absence, by the Vice- President both in legal matters and in all matters involving the Medical Council and the fulfilment of its aims. 1-- , - -51- J.O. n° 23 du 01/12/2001 CHAPTER ll: REGIONAL COUNCILS - 9 Verify source ↗
Article 9
AI-assisted research summary: A Regional Council of the Medical Council must be established in each health area, and it has jurisdiction over doctors registered in the regional office.
Article 9: There is hereby established in each health area a Regional Council of the Medical Council. and jurisdiction over Doctors registered in the regional office. It has authority Without prejudice to provisions of the preceding paragraph, number of Doctors registered in the .regional office, open more than one council or group several health regions in the same council. the National Council may, considering the in the same health region - 10 Verify source ↗
Article 10
AI-assisted research summary: The Regional Council must carry out several listed duties for the Medical Council, under the National Council’s control.
Article 10: Subject to provisions of article 2 and under tl}e control of the National Council, in particular, the following duties: the Regional Council fulfils to establish and to update the regional office Lists of ~e Medical Council; to punish such doctors' offences as made in the practice of their profession as well as serious offences made out of their professional activity, whenever they are likely to abuse the honour or dignity of the profession; to report to the relevant authorities acts of illegal practice of the profession it becomes aware of; to answer all requests for advice from courts and tribunals relating to disputes about professional fees owed to doctors; to arbitrate, on the joint request of both parties, disputes relating to fees claimed by a doctor from a patient; to arbitrate litigations among medical doctors and to effect mitigation; to put an end to all acts, contracts, or statutes to which doctors are party but which include clauses contrary to medical ethics; to control the form and wording of doctors' signposts and medical prescriptions; to make, subject to the approval of the National Council, to collect each year subscriptions the National Council to implement decisions, to accomplish any other tasks deemed necessary by the National Council. its internal rules; its quota; regulations and instructions given by the National Council; from members registered in its regional office and then pay to - 11 Verify source ↗
Article 11
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council sets the number of Regional Council members, taking into account the number of registered doctors in the latest published list.
Article 11: The number of the Regional Council members is fixed by the National Council considering the number of registered doctors in the most recently published List. - 12 Verify source ↗
Article 12
AI-assisted research summary: Article 12 says each Regional Council is made up of effective members and stand-in doctors elected by their colleagues from doctors registered with the regional office, but the text is truncated.
Article 12: Each Regional Council doctors registered with the regional office. is made of effective members and stand-in doctors elected by their colleagues from - 13 Verify source ↗
Article 13
AI-assisted research summary: The provision says the Regional Council’s procedures are to be set out in the Medical Council’s internal regulations, and it also refers to a four-year term with a limit of no more than two consecutive terms.
Article 13: The Regional Council modalities to be followed are set out in the internal regulations governing the Medical Council. term, but not for more than two consecutive terms. The is elected for a four-year I ;a ed to ne ~ sI --/ be Ilty s a lve be rary . the J.O. n° 23 du Of/12/2001 -52- - 14 Verify source ↗
Article 14
AI-assisted research summary: Only doctors registered with their Regional office for at least one year at election time are eligible for Regional Council effective or stand-in membership.
Article 14: Those eligible as effective or stand-in members of the Regional Council are only doctors registered with the Regional office they belong to, for at least one year at the time of the elections. - 15 Verify source ↗
Article 15
AI-assisted research summary: Voting in the poll is compulsory, and a person who does not take part without a valid reason risks disciplinary sanction.
Article 15: The poll is secret and compulsory. Whoever, without valid reason, does not participate in the poll, risks a disciplinary sanction. After each election, report Minister having Health in hislher portfolio. the elections' is submitted without delay to the National Council and to the - 16 Verify source ↗
Article 16
AI-assisted research summary: Outgoing effective members may be re-elected only after at least two years have passed since their term of office expired.
Article 16: Outgoing effective members are only eligible for re-election two years at least after the expiry of their term of office. - 17 Verify source ↗
Article 17
AI-assisted research summary: The Regional Council must elect a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer from among its members.
Article 17: The Regional Council elects from among its members a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman, a Secretary and a Treasurer. These form the board of the Council. The Chairman directs the regional Council and board activities and in case of absence, the Vice-Chairman takes hislher place. - 18 Verify source ↗
Article 18
AI-assisted research summary: The Regional Council Chairman may legally represent the level he or she belongs to in civil, administrative, and legal matters, if delegated by the National Council Chairman.
Article 18: On delegation by the National Council Chairman, Medical Council at the Regional Council matters. the Regional Council Chairman can legally represent level he/she belongs to in all civil, administrative the and legal - 19 Verify source ↗
Article 19
AI-assisted research summary: The Board meets monthly, may also meet when needed, needs at least three members present to decide validly, and makes decisions by consensus.
Article 19: The Board meets once a month on summons of the Chairman. request of the Chairman, or on request of at least three members of the Board . It can meet whenever need arises either'on , The Board can only decide validly when at least three members of the Board are present. The decisions are taken by consensus. - 20 Verify source ↗
Article 20
AI-assisted research summary: The Board prepares documents on contentious matters for submission to the Regional Council.
Article 20: The Board prepares document examines contentious matters, which are to be submitted to the Regional Council. to the Regional CounciL In disciplinary matters, files to submit the Board - 21 Verify source ↗
Article 21
AI-assisted research summary: Each year, by 31 January, the health minister and the medical superintendent must transmit the regional Medical Council list closed on 31 December of the previous year.
Article 21: Before 31si January of each year, Minister having Health in hislher portfolio and to the Medical Superintendent regional list of the Medical Council as closed by 31si December of the previous year. the regional Council board transmits to the National Council, of the health area, to the the Every new registration, every deletion or removal of a doctor trom the List is communicated to the above authorities. I -53- J. O. n° 2-3 du 01/12/2001 - 22 Verify source ↗
Article 22
AI-assisted research summary: The Regional Board may meet when needed and must meet at least once every trimester on the Chairman’s summons. The Regional Council is valid only if three quarters of members are present, and a member may be discharged after missing three consecutive summoned sessions without a valid reason.
Article 22: The Regional Board meets at whenever need arises either at the discretion of its Chairman, or by that of half of its members. least once every trimester on summons of its Chairman. It may meet The Regional Council can only sit validly when at least three quarters of its members are present Subject to invoking disciplinary sanctions, every member of the Regional Council who duly summoned, has abstained from attending three consecutive sessions without valid reason, can be discharged of his'her duties. CHAPTER Ill: THE NATIONAL COUNCIL v - 23 Verify source ↗
Article 23
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council is described as the supreme organ of the Medical Council, and its decisions are binding for all.
Article 23: The National Council members. is the supreme organ of the Medical Council. Its decisions are binding for all Its headquarters are the same as that of the Medical Council. - 24 Verify source ↗
Article 24
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council is made up of Regional Council chairmen and an elected doctor or substitute, and it can set medical ethics rules and inspect Regional Council functioning and management.
Article 24: The National Council - the Chairman of each Regional Council; - a doctor or his/her substitute elected by his/her colleagues at the regional council is formed of : level. .Article 25: The National Council makes the rules and general principles fairness, dignity and devotion essential medical ethics. to the practice of the profession and which constitute the code of relating to morality, honour, confidentiality, It is the privileged counsel for both private and public authorities on all questions relating to the practice of the medical profession. In this Association of Pharmacists, Nurses and Medical Assistants. the National Council of the Medical Council role, cooperates with organs representing the It has a right of inspection on Regional Council functioning and management. - 26 Verify source ↗
Article 26
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council must carry out several tasks, including election organization, appeals handling, enforcing Medical Council disciplinary decisions, updating ethics rules, advising institutions, fixing subscription rates, and making its own internal rules.
Article 26: Subject to provisions of article 25, the National Council fulfils in particular the following duties: for the organisation of elections, ways of appeal and sol',ing of prcblems; the lists of regional offices which form the national offic~; - it serves as a level of appeal for decisions taken by Regional Councils; - it provides procedures - it enforces all final decisions taken by the disciplinary organs of the Medical Council; - it updates - it adapts the ethical code in conformity with decisions levels; - it gives advice to private or public institutions on all questions relating to interpretation rules of medical ethics and probes those issued by Regional Councils; - it fixes the subscription rates of the Medical Council members; - it makes its internal rules and probes those of the other organs. taken in disciplinary matters by the competent of principles and I. L-ri ~ - --- _ 1.0. n° 23 du 01/12/2001 -54- - 27 Verify source ↗
Article 27
AI-assisted research summary: Members of the National Council are elected for a four-year term.
Article 27: The members consecutive Medical Council. of the National Council are elected for a four-year term, but not terms. The modalities to be followed are set out in the internal regulations for more than two governing the - 28 Verify source ↗
Article 28
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council elects a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer from among its members, and these officers form the Council’s Board.
Article 28: The National Council elects from its members a Chairman a Vice-Chairman, They constitute the Board of the National Council. a Secretary and a Treasurer. Members elected to the National Council Board give up their mandate at the level of Regional Boards. - 29 Verify source ↗
Article 29
AI-assisted research summary: The Chairman of the National Council directs the activities of something; the wording also mentions the National Council Board and the Vice-Chairman in case of absence.
Article 29: The Chairman of the National Council, and in case of absence, the National Council Board. the Vice-Chairman, directs the activities of - 30 Verify source ↗
Article 30
AI-assisted research summary: The board must meet quarterly, can be summoned by the Chairman or Vice-Chairman, needs at least three members present to validly meet, and takes decisions by consensus.
Article 30: The board meets once quarterly on summons of its Chairman or its Vice- Chairman. need arises either by request of the Chairman or of at least three of its members. It can meet whenever The Board decides validly only when three of its members are present. Decisions are taken by consensus. - 31 Verify source ↗
Article 31
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council must meet at least twice a year and can also meet on request, on summons, or when needed. It can only validly decide if at least three quarters of its members are present, and decisions need a two-thirds majority of members present.
Article 31: The National Council meets at least either on request by its Chairman, or by at least two thirds of the Members of the Council. twice a year, on summons of its Chairman or whenever need arises, The Council can decide validly only when at least three quarters of its members are present and decisions are taken by two- third majority of members present. - 32 Verify source ↗
Article 32
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council may invite one or more people of its choice to its meetings for consultation.
Article 32: In order to fulfil persons of its choice for their particular competences. its mission, the National Council can invite to its meetings, for consultation, one or several TITLE ill: SANCTIONS - 33 Verify source ↗
Article 33
AI-assisted research summary: The disciplinary organs have sanctions available to them: warning, reprimand, fine, temporary suspension, and removal from the List.
Article 33: Sanctions availed to the disciplinary organs are: a warning; a reprimand; a penalty (fine); a temporary suspension ; removal from the List. - 34 Verify source ↗
Article 34
AI-assisted research summary: Doctors under the described suspension-related condition lose eligibility to be elected, and during suspension they cannot take part in Regional Council elections.
Article 34: subject Doctors liable to appeal to a decision of suspension from practicing and which decision is not anymore are deprived definitely of the right of eligibility to be elected, and during the period of suspension, of the right to take part in the elections of the Regional Council. -- - 35 Verify source ↗
Article 35
AI-assisted research summary: A substitute member or elected doctor may lose the mandate automatically if struck from the Medical Council list, sentenced to more than six months’ imprisonment, or given removal/deletion as a disciplinary sanction.
Article 35: -55- J. O. n° 23 du 01/12/2001 deprivation Automatic substitute member of one or other organ, who is subject from the List of the Medical Council or when conclusively sentenced to an imprisonment six months. effective or to the disciplinary sanction of removal or deletion term of more than is the penalty imposed on any elected doctor, of hislher mandate - 36 Verify source ↗
Article 36
AI-assisted research summary: Medical Council organs must not base decisions on discriminatory grounds when applying sanctions to doctors.
Article 36: No decision taken by the organs of the Medical Council when relating to the implementation sanctions religious originates imposed on doctors can be founded on discriminatory affiliation, ITom anyone group of people or based on any other discrimination. ideological beliefs, political gender or due to the fact inclinations, reasons of rank, ethnicity, of disciplinary social or that a doctor - 37 Verify source ↗
Article 37
AI-assisted research summary: When a Medical Council or Board seat becomes vacant because of resignation, death, or dismissal, the substitute member is chosen based on election votes, with age breaking ties.
Article 37: Mandates of members of the organs of the Medical Council as well as of their respective Boards, which become vacant following resignation, death or dismissal are devolved to substitute members considering the number of votes they obtained in elections and in case of equality in the number of votes, terms of age is chosen. the oldest in In this case, duration of the substitute members' date on which, re-election for the position he/she held. functions the mandate of those they replace would have expired. That substitute member is the period remaining to be covered up to the is eligible for - 38 Verify source ↗
Article 38
AI-assisted research summary: Medical Council members and participating persons must keep confidential information learned through their functions, and breaches are punishable under the Penal Code.
Article 38: All members of the Medical Council organs are to be sworn to professional they have been informed of or known in the exercise of their functions. confidentiality for all matters The same applies to all persons who, by a given title, participate in the functioning of the Medical Council. Breach of confidentiality is punishable in accordance with the provisions of the Penal Code. - 39 Verify source ↗
Article 39
AI-assisted research summary: A doctor who practices medicine without Medical Council registration, or while suspended, is subject to the penalties set by article 33.
Article 39: list as Any doctor who practices the medical art without being registered on the Medical Council members' well as one who practices while on suspension is punished by the penalties provided for by article -33 of this law. - 40 Verify source ↗
Article 40
AI-assisted research summary: After at least three years from the definitive removal of the penalty, the Regional Council that imposed it must reconsider the doctor’s case.
Article 40: After a three years' this penalty, come to a final decision. interval at least has passed from the definitive removal the Regional Council which pronounced the sanction is obligated to reconsider from the List of a doctor under the case and to - 41
AI-assisted research summary: Disciplinary action does not stop related legal, civil, or further disciplinary proceedings.
Article 41:' Application of any disciplinary action does not prevent: - either legal action by the Department of the Public Prosecutor or by individuals before prosecuting - either civil actions for damages for an offence or technical offence; - or disciplinary action before the Administration of which the doctor is an official. tribunals in terms of Common Law; the , - ---- J.O. n° 23 du 01/12/2001 -56- TITLE IV: PROCEDURES AND W A VS OF APPEAL. - 42 Verify source ↗
Article 42
AI-assisted research summary: The Regional Council may follow up errors on its own initiative or when asked or complained to by certain health officials.
Article 42: TIle Regional Council acts, on its own initiative to follow up any error, or on request of a doctor with the Council, CounciL by its initiative or on complaint of the Minister having Health in his/her portfolio. registered of a health or district area or office, or by the National superintendent the medical - 43 Verify source ↗
Article 43
AI-assisted research summary: If an inquiry is ordered against a doctor, the doctor must be notified by registered mail within 15 clear days.
Article 43: In all cases when an inquiry is ordered against a doctor, he/she is informed of it by registered mail, within fifteen clear days. TIle Board considers the Council for this investigation. such matters as the Council is informed of. It can delegate onc or several members of TIle Board or the delegate makes a summary of question, hearings or findings made. The witnesses this summary. sign TIle Board appoints someone to carry out its decisions. Basing on the report submitted to it and on a motivated decision, indefinitely, or order a complementary investigation or cause the doctor to appear before it immediately. the Council will either shelve the matter In case of complaint, statement of conciliation. the Board makes an effort to bring parties to a compromise and eventually makes a The decision of the National Council is conveyed to the concerned doctor by registered letter. - 44 Verify source ↗
Article 44
AI-assisted research summary: This article appears to concern temporary suspension or prohibition from practising medicine while a National Council decision is pending, with a possible offence/penalty reference.
Article 44: During the time that a decision from the National Council may punish a doctor who, following serious indications, temporary prohibition temporary suspension. to practice medicine or by a removal is awaited, the board of the Regional Council is presumed guilty of an offence punishable by a from the List of the Medical Council, by - 45 Verify source ↗
Article 45
AI-assisted research summary: A doctor subject to a decision made in absentia may seek reconsideration within 15 days of notice, and the matter goes back to the Regional Council.
Article 45: The doctor against whom a decision has been taken in absentia, issue within a fifteen days' period from the notification of the decision. The matter is brought back before tlie Regional Council. A concerned party which fails to appear request for reconsideration of the issue. for the second time with no clear can request for a reconsideration of the tangible reason can no more - 46 Verify source ↗
Article 46
AI-assisted research summary: An appeal may be filed in writing with the Secretariat of the National Council, and it suspends implementation of the decision appealed against.
Article 46: is made by a written statement made to the Secretariat of the National Council. This appeal may be the Chairman of the National Council, or by the doctor in charge of the is being Appeal made by the doctor himself/herself, concerned health region or health district; within thirty days of notification of the decision that appealed against .. The appeal has a suspension effect on the implementation of the decision. -57- J. O. n° 23 du 01/12/2001 ..) J - 47 Verify source ↗
Article 47
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council must assign one of its members to study the matter and carry out additional investigation duties, and it may hear the Regional Councillor who took part in the first-level investigation.
Article 47: The National Council mandates one of its members who studies the matter and effects all complementary duties of investigation. The National Council may hear the Regional Councillor mandated who participated in the investigation at the first level. The decisions of the National Council are notified to the concerned parties by registered mail. - 48 Verify source ↗
Article 48
AI-assisted research summary: Article 48 says the Article 45 opposition rules apply to the appellant party.
Article 48: Provisions of Article 45 relating to opposition are applicable to the appellant party . - 49 Verify source ↗
Article 49
AI-assisted research summary: Before a judgment on dismissing elected members of the Medical Council’s organs, the National Council is to be informed, apparently through official notice or by the Regional Council, but the text is truncated.
Article 49: Before making a judgement on dismissal of elected members qfthe Medical Council's organs, Council member of this Council. the National is informed, either officially on one of its members, or by the Regional Council when it is about a - 50 Verify source ↗
Article 50
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council may not impose a harsher sanction than the Regional Council, or impose a sanction that the Regional Council did not impose, unless three-quarters of members present vote for it.
Article 50: The National Council cannot impose a heavier sanction than that given by the Regional Council or apply a sanction where this organ has not imposed any, except on the vote of a three-quarters majority of members present. - 51 Verify source ↗
Article 51
AI-assisted research summary: A final disciplinary sanction starts after 30 days from notifying the doctor, and disciplinary decisions/forfeitures must have an effective date.
Article 51: The execution of a disciplinary sanction that has become final begins at the expiry of a clear thirty days period as from the notification of the decision to the doctor. All decisions medical art as well as imposed forfeitures relating to removal set dates from which they take effect. from the List of the Medical Council or to limitation in practising the Decisions as well as measures taken against doctors have to be brought Medical Council's organs and to the Minister having Health in hislher portfolio. to the knowledge of the concerned TITLE V: FINANCIAL PROVISIONS - 52 Verify source ↗
Article 52
AI-assisted research summary: The Medical Council’s finances come from members, subsidies, donations, bequests, and fees for services rendered.
Article 52: subscription fees; The finances of the Medical Council will come from : - members' - private or public subsidies; - donations and bequest; - fees for services rendered by the Medical Council. - 53 Verify source ↗
Article 53
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council sets each year the subscription fee amount doctors must pay to the Regional Council and the share payable to the National Council.
Article 53: The National Council fixes annually the flat amount of subscription fee to be paid by each doctor to hislher Regional Council; it also fixes the quota of the subscription fees that is to be paid to the National Council. - 54 Verify source ↗
Article 54
AI-assisted research summary: The National Council manages the Medical Council’s assets and may organize or promote non-profit healing activities.
Article 54: The National Council manages the assets of the Medical Council and may organize and promote activities related to the art of healing that are non-profit making. J.O. /l0 23 du 01/1212001 -58- AI1ide 55: Within the National Medical Council. in\"estments and accounts. board. financial Its members are appointed from members that are not members of the Council's there is hereby set up a commission to control the council's AMide 56: The control commission of financial and the estimated budget of the National Council. investments and accounts every year requests for the overall accounts It may. without correspondence. removing them from the premises where they are kept. take cognisance of books. all writings relating to the Medical Council's accounts. is obligatorily to be consulted by the National Council before fixing its members' The commission subscription fees. AMide 57: ,"- The commission achieving better the aims of the Medical Council. its financial control submits report and issues any useful proposals for the purpose of AMide 58: Functions Council. to be salaried within the Medical Council as well as their rates are to be fixed by the National TITLE VI: TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS AMide 59: The Minister having Health in his/her portfolio fixes the date on which the List of the Medical Council will be closed for purpose of first elections of the organs of the Medical Council. He/She convenes the first meeting for the election of the Medical Council's.organs. AMide 60: The Code of Ethics of the medical profession provided for in Article 25 of this law comes through a Presidential Order. into force AMide 61: All previous provisions contrary to this law are abrogated. L ~.sC)- - 62 Verify source ↗
Article 62
AI-assisted research summary: This law takes effect on the day it is published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda.
Article 62: This law enters into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda. Kigali, on 12/06/200 I The President of the Republic Paul KAGAME (se) The Prime Minister Bernard MAKUZA (se) The Minister of Health Dr. E7-cchiasRWABUHIHI (se) The Minister of Public Sen'ice and Labour Zainabo Sylvie KAYITESI (se) Seen and sealed with the Seal of the Republic: The Minister of Justice and Institutional Relations Jean de Dieu MUCYO (se) /
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