Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital Act, 1955
No: 16 Dated: Apr, 27 1955
THE LADY DUFFERIN VICTORIA ZENANA HOSPITAL ACT, 1955
West Bengal Act XVI of 1955
An Act to provide for the transfer of the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital in Calcutta to the State of West Bengal and for the division and administration of the cash assets of the Countess of Duffer in Fund, Bengal Branch.
Whereas a Fund known as the Countess of Duffer in Fund, Bengal Branch, consisting of lands, buildings and other immovable properties, cash and securities, and equipments, furniture and other movable properties is vested in the Governing Body of the Bengal Branch of the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India, a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 ;
And Whereas the said Society runs a hospital known as the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital situated at 1B, Amherst Street in the town of Calcutta ;
And Whereas the Governing Body of the said Society has, by a resolution passed on the 8th July, 1949, resolved that the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital together with all the lands, buildings, erections, fixtures, furniture, equipments and other appurtenances of the said hospital should be transferred to the State of West Bengal;
And Whereas the Governing Body of the said Society has by the said resolution further resolved that the cash assets including securities, of the said Countess of Dufferin Fund, Bengal Branch, should be apportioned between West Bengal and East Bengal, in the ratio of three to one and should be administered in the manner hereinafter appearing;
And Whereas the State of West Bengal has agreed to take over the said Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital together with all the lands, buildings, erections, fixtures, furniture, equipments and other appurtenances of the said hospital and to run the same as a State hospital and to the apportionment of the cash assets including securities of the said Countess of Dufferin Fund, Bengal Branch and their administration, in the manner hereinbefore stated;
It is hereby enacted as follows :-
1. Short title. - This Act may be called the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital Act, 1955.
2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, -
(a) "the Hospital" means the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital in Calcutta together with the lands described in the Schedule belonging to the said hospital and all buildings, erections, fixtures, furniture, equipments and other appurtenances of the said hospital;
(b) "the Society" means the Bengal Branch of the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India, being a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
3. Transfer of the Hospital to the State of West Bengal. - (1) The Hospital shall be deemed to have been transferred to the State of West Bengal and to have been vested in the State of West Bengal, as from the 1st day of July, 1949.
(2) All contracts, debts and liabilities of or as respects the Hospital shall be deemed to have been transferred to the State of West Bengal, as from the 1st day of July, 1949.
(3) The Hospital shall be run by the State of West Bengal as a State hospital.
(4) Persons employed in the Hospital and continuing in office immediately before the 1st day of July, 1949, shall, as from that date, be deemed to be employees of the State Government of West Bengal, and the terms and conditions of their service shall be such as may be determined by that Government :
Provided that any such person may at his option, to be exercised within such time and in such manner as that Government may specify by notification, continue to remain under the terms and conditions of service in force immediately before such date.
4. Division of assets between West Bengal and East Bengal. - The Governing Body of the Society are hereby empowered, after the liabilities which are outstanding immediately before the commencement of this Act have been paid, to divide the cash assets including securities, of the Countess of Dufferin Fund, Bengal Branch, into two parts, one part, being three-fourths of the whole of such cash assets including securities (hereinafter referred to as the First Part, of the Assets) to be utilized in West Bengal and the other part, being one-fourth of such cash assets including securities (hereinafter referred to as the Second Part of the Assets) to be dealt with in the manner specified in section 6.