HIMACHAL PRADESH STATE LEGISLATURE OFFICERS, MINISTERS AND MEMBERS (MEDICAL FACILITIES) ACT, 1971
(Act No. 6 of 1971)
[Dated 22.04.1971]
For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see R.H.P. Extra, dated the 19th April, 1971, P. 247.
An Act to extend medical facilities to persons holding certain offices in the State of Himachal Pradesh.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Himachal Pradesh State Legislature Officers, Ministers and Members (Medical Facilities) Act, 1971.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 25th January, 1971.
2. Medical facilities. - (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, every person holding, for the time being, any of the following offices shall be entitled to such medical facilities for himself and for members of his family as may be prescribed by rules made by the State Government in this behalf, namely: -
(i) the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly;
(ii) a Minister or a Deputy Minister of the State of Himachal Pradesh;
or
(iii) a Member of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
(2) All rules with regard to accommodation in hospitals and medical treatment applicable to officers mentioned in sub-section (1), immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall continue in force till the rules under this Act are made.
(3) Every rule made under sub-section (1) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions aforesaid, the Assembly makes any modification in the rule or decides that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be, of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
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