Registration of existing medical practitioners

The Registrar shall, immediately on the commencement of this Act, cause to be entered in the Register, the particulars specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of section 7(1) of all those persons who immediately before the commencement were registered as medical practitioners under the Medical Practitioners Registration Act, without an application on the part of those persons and without payment by those persons of a fee, and pending such entry, such persons shall be deemed to be medical practitioners for the purposes of this Act.