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Ayurveda Act (No. 31 of 1961) - Sect 76

Change of name of the College of Indigenous Medicine and the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine and consequential provisions

76.
(1) On and after the appointed date, the College of Indigenous Medicine shall be called and known as the College of Ayurvedic Medicine, and the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine shall be called and known as the Central Hospital of Ayurveda.
(2) Notwithstanding the change of designation of the College heretofore called the College of Indigenous Medicine, or of the Hospital heretofore called the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine, all persons holding office as members of the staff of that College or that Hospital at the appointed date or otherwise employed in that College or that Hospital at that date shall continue in office or employment in the College of Ayurvedic Medicine or the Central Hospital of Ayurveda, as the case may be.
(3) Wherever, in any provisions of any other written law or of any notice, permit, communication, form or other document issued, made, required or authorized by or under any other written law, the expression "Principal of the College of Indigenous Medicine" occurs, there shall be substituted therefor the expression " Principal of the College of Ayurvedic Medicine ", or the expression " Medical Superintendent of the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine " occurs, there shall be substituted therefor the expression " Medical Superintendent of the Central Hospital of Ayurveda "; and accordingly wherever in any such provision the abbreviation " Principal " or " Medical Superintendent " is used to denote the Principal of the College of Indigenous Medicine or the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine, such abbreviation shall be read and construed as a reference to the Principal of the College of Ayurvedic Medicine or the Medical Superintendent of the Central Hospital of Ayurvedic, as the case may be.
(4) If the designation of any office in the College of Indigenous Medicine or the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine (as constituted prior to the appointed date) is altered-
(a) the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare that the provisions of this subsection shall apply in relation to that designation; and
(b) upon such declaration being made, then, wherever that designation occurs in any provision of any other written law or of any notice, permit, communication, form or other document issued, made, required or authorized by any other written law, there shall be substituted for that designation the new designation assigned to the corresponding office in the College of Ayurvedic Medicine or the Central Hospital of Ayurveda, as the case may be.
(5) Every contract, agreement, or other instrument or document whatsoever made, issued, or executed prior to the appointed date by or in favour of the Principal of the College of Indigenous Medicine or the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine or any officer of that College or that Hospital in his capacity as such, shall be deemed on and after the appointed date to be and to have been made, issued, or executed by or in favour of the Principal of the College of Ayurvedic Medicine or the Medical Superintendent of the Central Hospital of Ayurveda, as the case may be, or of the officer holding the corresponding office in that College or that Hospital in his capacity as such; and any reference in any such contract, agreement, or other instrument or document to any officer of the College of Indigenous Medicine or of the Hospital of Indigenous Medicine (as constituted prior to the appointed date) shall be read and construed as a reference to the officer holding the corresponding office in the College of Ayurvedic Medicine or the Central Hospital of Ayurveda, as the case may be.


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