An Act to provide for the constitution of the National Council for Human Resources in Health for prescribing standards with a view to the proper planning and co-ordinated development of medical and allied health education throughout the country, the promotion of qualitative improvement of such education in relation to planned quantitative growth, the maintenance of a national live electronic register of medical and allied health professionals and to provide for an overarching framework for the regulation of human resources in health in the country and proper maintenance of norms and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This Act may be called the National Council for Human Resources for Health Act, 2009.