Legal Counsel

(a) Setting the conditions for registration and licensing for working as an allied health professional;

(b) Setting the standards for accepting educational qualifications of persons wishing to work as allied health professionals in the Maldives;

(c) Setting the institutions and training centres, among the educational institutions in the field of health services, that the Maldives Allied Health Council accepts, for the purpose of granting permission to various persons to work as allied health professionals in the Maldives;

(d) Setting the institutions and training centres, among the educational institutions in the field of health services operating in the Maldives, that the Maldives Allied Health Council accepts, setting the conditions for the staff who carry out training at those premises, and accrediting the courses run by those premises;

(e) Registering allied health professionals, and cancelling their registration;

(f) Issuing licences to allied health professionals, renewing licences, and cancelling them;

(g) Setting the procedures and code of conduct that allied health professionals must follow in their work;

(h) Setting the standards for assessing the performance of allied health professionals, and investigating and implementing the measures needed to raise their performance, and monitoring their performance in accordance with regulations;

(i) Investigating complaints arising from actions contrary to the set procedures and code of conduct by allied health professionals in carrying out their duties, and taking necessary action against those persons;

(j) Setting the fees to be charged in connection with registration, licence issuance, examinations required before licence issuance, and other services provided by the council.

(f) Establishing a council, in line with the Allied Health Professionals Act and regulations made under it, and creating committees and boards, to achieve the council's objectives;

(d) Introducing new methods and procedures and reviewing matters that need correction, to strengthen the competence of allied health professionals, and confirming that the procedures practised in the Maldives in relation to allied health professionals are in line with international best practice procedures;

(e) Making and implementing the regulations that the council must make under the Allied Health Professionals Act;

(l) Carrying out other responsibilities that the Allied Health Professionals Act or any other law assigns to the council;

(g) Each member of the council must perform their duties with impartiality, fairness, integrity and transparency, based on their professional knowledge and experience, in accordance with the laws of the Maldives, without being subject to any person's or institution's power or influence or to any bias, and must carry out tasks assigned to them accordingly;

(h) Carry out the responsibilities entrusted by the Chairperson of the council;

(i) Visit places that the council must visit in connection with complaints it considers, question parties it must question, study documents it must study, and prepare reports it must prepare;

(j) In public life, uphold the ethical and behavioural standards that must be upheld in the capacity of a council member, and maintain integrity;

(k) In addition to this, carry out the duties and responsibilities of council members that are determined as such in this Act, in regulations made under this Act, or in any other law;

(t) Each member of the council must perform their duties with impartiality, fairness, integrity and transparency, based on their professional knowledge and experience, in accordance with the laws of the Maldives, without being subject to any person's or institution's power or influence or to any bias, and must carry out tasks assigned to them accordingly;

(y) When a matter in which a member has a personal interest or conflict of interest is considered by the council, that member must not participate in the consideration or decision on that matter to any degree, and if the member becomes aware of the matter's connection to them, even if it was not known in advance, they must notify the chairperson of the council and withdraw from the consideration of that matter or from any decision taken on it;

(p) If the circumstance described above involves the chairperson of the council, they must notify the deputy chairperson of the council and withdraw from the consideration of that matter or from any decision taken on it;

1. Being a Maldivian citizen.
2. Being a person with the academic standard and capability to carry out the responsibilities and duties of a council membership post, and with a work ethic.
3. Not being a person who has been proven under Sharia to have committed an offence for which a prescribed punishment (hadd) is set in Islam.
4. Not being a person who has been proven under Sharia to have committed a crime and offence.
5. Being a person authorised to practise as a legal practitioner.
6. Not being a administrator or board member of a health service provider, or a person holding any other post in one.
7. Not being a person who holds a share in a health service provider, either in their own name, in the name of a party appointed on their behalf, or in the name of a company in which their share is included.
8. Not being a person elected to a post through an election prescribed by law.
9. Not being a person holding a political post.

1. Education obtained (30 percent)
2. Work-related experience obtained (20 percent)
3. Interview (50 percent)

1. Among the education certificates submitted, marks will be awarded only for the highest-obtained education certificate.
2. From among the persons applying for the post, the person to be appointed to the post will be the one who obtains the highest marks on education, experience and interview, as conducted by the Ministry after general announcement.

1. CV submitted to apply for membership

2. Copies of education certificates obtained;

(a) For educational certificates issued by institutions outside Maldives that have been graded by the Maldives Qualifications Authority at a certain level, copies of the educational certificate and transcript; or: in cases where there is no certificate, a copy of the letter confirming completion of the course and a copy of the assessment report and transcript issued by the Maldives Qualifications Authority.

(b) Copies of educational certificates and transcript issued by local educational institutions in Maldives; or copies of letter confirming completion of the course and copies of transcript.

3. Copies of documents showing experience of working in the Maldives as a legal practitioner, obtained by the applicant for membership.

4. If working under a specific licence or permit from the relevant field, a copy of such licence or permit.

5. A copy, such as a photocopy in which both sides of the identity card (even if expired) of the applicant as a Maldivian citizen are visible and the written text can be read. If the ID card is lost, the applicant's passport or driving licence.

6. A copy of the permit to practise as a legal practitioner.

7. Contact details (including a contact number and email address)

Documents required for the post must be submitted by 13:00 on Thursday, 29 October 2026, to the email address [email protected].

If the Government declares an additional public holiday before the announcement deadline, the deadline of this announcement will be extended by the number of days so declared.