The functions of the Council are generally to carry out the provisions of the Medical and Dental Practitioners, Cap 152, and rules made thereunder, and in particular:

• To keep and maintain the Register of medical or dental practitioners, registered or licensed under the Act or to keep the Rolls of clinical officers or dental therapists and to keep the list of Clinical assistants;
• To publish in the Gazette the names, addresses and qualifications of all newly     registered medical or dental practitioners and licensed assistant medical or dental practitioners, at interval six months or as may be determined by the Council
• To publish in the Gazette, at intervals of every two years, a list containing the names, qualifications and addresses of all medical or dental practitioners on the Register as remaining at the close of the previous year;
• To restore into the Register, Rolls or List the names of persons previously erased from the Register, Rolls or List;
• To administer caution to, or censure, or order the suspension from practice or direct erasure from the Register, Rolls and List of the names of medical or dental practitioners, allied medical or dental practitioners convicted of an offence or who after due inquiry by the Council found guilty of infamous professional misconduct;
• To register, license, enrol or enlist persons who fulfil the requirements set out under this Act.
• To evaluate and determine as the Council deem fit, the kind of training in medicine or dentistry in respect of which the holder of a certificate may be recognized for the time being by the Council as furnishing sufficient guarantee that the holder possesses the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of medicine and dentistry.etc.