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(1) Every village panchayat and municipality shall have a Health Officer. (2) Where in the area of a village panchayat or municipality there is no Health Officer posted, the Government may nominate a medical officer serving in any health institution under the control of the village panchayat or municipality, as the case may be, to function as the Health Officer ex-officio of that village panchayat or municipality: Provided that if no such medical officer as aforesaid is available for nomination, the Government may nominate a medical officer under the control of a nearby Village Panchayat or Municipality to function as the Health Officer ex-officio.] Substituted by Kerala Decentralisation of Powers Act, 2000 (Act 16 of 2000), published in K. G. Ext. No. 869 dt. 12/05/2000. Prior to the substitution it read as: "(9) (1) A local authority shall, if so required by the Government, include the post of a Health Officer in its establishment schedule. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Madras District Municipalities Act, 1920, or the Madras Local Boards Act, 1920, the Government-- (a) shall appoint the Health Officers of all the local authorities (other than the Corporation of Madras) in respect whereof a direction is issued under sub-section (1); and (b) may recover from each such local authority, the whole or such proportion of the salary and allowances paid to the Health Officer, and such contribution towards his leave allowances, pension and provident fund as the Government may, by general or special order, determine. "