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Power to make Regulations THE ANDHRA PRADESH VAIDYA VIDHANA PARISHAD ACT, 1986 ACT NO. 29 OF 1986 [18th August, 1986] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF A COMMISSIONERATE FOR ESTABLISHING, EXPANDING AND ADMINISTERING DISTRICT, ERSTWHILE TALUK HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES FOR PROVIDING BETTER MEDICAL CARE IN THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO. Whereas it has been provided in Article 47 of the Constitution, under the Directive Principles of State Policy that the State shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties; And whereas time is ripe for re-structuring the existing Government Health Organisations by separating curative and preventive aspects so that greater emphasis could be given for the intensive development of both these areas and to strengthen necessary linkages at appropriate levels to ensure the attainment of the objectives of comprehensive medical and health care; And whereas in order to achieve the said objectives it is considered expedient to create Vaidya Vidhana Parishad for the State. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra Pradesh in Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER-I PRELIMINARY