law: Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 
  16. Recognition of medical qualifications granted
  
  by medical institutions in countries with which there is a scheme of
  
  reciprocity
  (1) The medical qualifications granted by
  
  medical institutions outside India which are included in
  
  the Fourth Schedule shall be recognized medical qualifications for the purposes
  
  of this Act.
  (2) The Central Council may enter into
  
  negotiations with the authority in any State or country outside India, which,
  
  by the law of such State or country is entrusted with the maintenance of a
  
  Register of practitioners of Indian medicine, for the settling of a scheme of
  
  reciprocity for the recognition of medical qualifications in Indian medicine,
  
  and in pursuance of any such scheme, the Central Government may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Fourth Schedule so as to
  
  include therein any medical qualification which the Central Council has decided
  
  should be recognized, and any such notification may also direct that an entry
  
  shall be made in the last column of the Fourth Schedule against such medical
  
  qualification declaring that it shall be recognized medical qualification only
  
  when granted after a specified date.