Surgeon General with Government etc. (Change in Designations) Act, 1972

No: 3 Dated: Jan, 12 1973

Surgeon General with Government etc. (Change in Designations) Act, 1972

Act No. III of 1973

    An Act to amend certain enactments on account of change in designation of certain officers of the Medical and Public Health Departments of the Government of Maharashtra and to provide for matters connected therewith.

    Whereas, the post of Surgeon General with the Government of Maharashtra and the post of Director or Public Health for the Government of Maharashtra have been abolished; and the posts of Director of Medical Education and Research and Director of Health Services were created, and the designations and functions of other officers in the Medical and the Public Health Departments have been reallotted by the by the State Government with effect from the 1st May 1970 to the two Directorates of Medical Educational and Research and of Health Services;

    And Whereas, some of these officers carried with their office membership and functions on certain corporate bodies and other authorities by virtue of such office;

    And Whereas, it is necessary to provide for their continuance or variation on such bodies and authorities;

    And Whereas, it is expedient to amend certain enactments and to provide for matters connected therewith;

It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Surgeon General with Government, etc. (Change in Designations) Act, 1972.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of May 1970.

2. Construction of references in enactments or instruments. - Any reference to the Medical Department or the Public Health Department or to any officer or these Departments, in any law for the time being in force or in any instrument or other documents, shall be constructed as and shall be deemed to be a reference to the Directorate or Medical Education and Research or the Directorate of Health Services of the Government of Maharashtra, or to the officer of corresponding rank in any such Directorate according to the functions allotted to the relevant Directorate or the officer, as the case may be, under Government Resolution in the Urban Development Public Health and Housing Department, No. MME-3869/5975/(a)-B, dated the 20th April 1970.

3. Amendments or certain enactments. - The enactments specified in column 1 of the Schedule are hereby amended in the manner, and to the extent, shown in column 2 thereof.

4. Saving. - All officers of the Directorates of Medical Education and Research, and of Health Services, functioning on any corporate body or other authority by virtue of their office at the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been properly appointed thereto; and anything done or any action taken by such officers shall be deemed to be duly done or taken and the body and authority shall be deemed to be properly constituted, and such thing done or action taken shall not be called in question on the ground only that the body or authority was not properly constituted, or the officer was not properly appointed thereto.