Section 24: Pre-registration trainees

24. Pre-registration trainees (1) The Council may require a person applying for registration as a general practitioner under section 21 to undergo such training as it may determine before registering him. [Issue 5] M60 – 14 Revised Laws of Mauritius (2) The person applying for registration as a general practitioner who is required to undergo the training referred to in subsection (1) shall be registered as a pre-registration trainee. (3) Where a person who holds a diploma in medicine is required by the country, or the medical institution where he qualified, to complete a course of training, without which training he would not be eligible for registration as medical practitioner in that country, he may be registered as a pre-registration trainee until he has completed such course of training in an institution approved by the Council. (4) Every student in medicine who is undergoing pre-qualification training in Mauritius shall so inform the Council in writing, giving such particulars as the Council may require. (5) Entry examinations for pre-registration trainees shall be conducted by an independent body of international repute under the aegis of the Council before such trainees are enlisted by the Ministry. [S. 24 amended by s. 35 of Act 18 of 2016 w.e.f. 7 September 2016.] 25. — [S. 25 repealed by s. 14 of Act 1 of 2002 w.e.f. 29 January 2002.]