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Subs. for the words "seven" vide Act No, 14 of 1978. 6 H. P. AYURVEDIC AND UNANI PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1968 (4) The 1[five] seats of members provided in clause (c) of sub-section (1) shall be distributed by the 2[Government of Himachal Pradesh] proportionately to their number, as counted on the prescribed date before the election, between the registered practitioners who follow the Ayurvedic system and the registered practitioners who follow the Unani system: Provided that in determining the proportion, a fraction of one-half and less shall be ignored and a fraction of more than one-half shall be counted as one 3[and atleast one seat will be provided for Unani system]. (5) Every election or appointment of a member and every vacancy in the office of a member shall be notified in the Official Gazette. (6) Until the Board is established and constituted in accordance with the provisions of the preceding sub-sections, the 4[Government of Himachal Pradesh] may constitute a Board5 consisting of seven persons, including the Director to be appointed by the State Government and the rest from the persons holding a diploma or degree of Ayurvedic or Unani system or practitioners in these two systems, and a Board so constituted shall, as from the commencement of this Act and for a period not exceeding [fifteen]6 years from such commencement, be deemed to be the Board established and constituted for the purpose of carrying out all the provisions of this Act, and the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (5) shall apply to such a Board.