Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Subject to such rules as may be prescribed including rules for consultation with the executive authorities concerned, the [Director of Health Services] shall have power-- (a) to transfer any member of the public health establishment of a local authority to the public health establishment of another local authority; and (b) in times of emergency, to assign one or more members of the public health establishment of one local authority for temporary duty in the area of another local authority. (2) Nothing contained in clause (a) of sub-section (1) shall apply to the Corporation of Madras. (3) In the case referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1), the local authority within whose jurisdiction the member or members of the public health establishment of another local authority are working, shall pay for the period of such temporary duty, the salary and allowances of such member or members and such contribution towards their leave allowances, pension and provident fund as the Government may, by general or special order, determine. Substituted by Kerala Decentralisation of Powers Act, 2000 (Act 16 of 2000), published in K. G. Ext. No. 869 dt. 12/05/2000, for the words "Director of Public Health".