Section 17(7)(a) in The Gujarat Medical Practitioners' Act, 1963
(a)that he has been regularly practising the Ayurvedic or Unani system of medicine for a period of not less than ten years immediately before the appointed day and that his name continued to be included in the list kept under section 18 of the Bombay Medical Practitioners' Act, 1938 (Bombay XXVI of 1938) in its application to the Bombay area of the State or of the said Act as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State for the period as aforesaid, or