Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The local authority shall manage health institutions transferred to it by Government. (2) No sale, mortgage, lease, pledge, charge or transfer of possession of any land appurtenant to a health institution transferred to a local authority shall be made and such land shall not be used for any purpose other than the purposes for which it was transferred to a local authority. (3) The Government may issue directions to the local authority or matters relating to health policy, planning for health facilities, standards to be maintained, mode of administration and it shall be the duty of the local authority to carry them out.] Inserted by Kerala Decentralisation of Powers Act, 2000 (Act 16 of 2000), published in K. G. Ext. No. 869 dt. 12/05/2000.