Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Director shall have power to supervise and control all medical and health establishments and all public health services within the territory except those administered by the Central Government. (2) The Director shall have the power to direct any local authority to provide certain health services in the area or to carry out such measures as may be necessary from time to time to safeguard the health of the people, failing which, the Director shall have also the power to assume such responsibility and carry out such measures himself or through his staff. (3) The Director may, from time to time as occasion requires, make the services of the Directorate available to local authorities either free of charge or on payment of such fees as may be prescribed in respect of cleaning, execution, construction and supervision of all health matters including sanitary schemes. (4) In case of emergency arising from outbreak of epidemic or communicable diseases or from any other cause endangering the life or health of the public, the Director shall have power – (a) to appoint additional personnel and organise public health services for such periods as he may consider necessary; and (b) with the approval of the Government, to assume all or any of the powers and functions of a local authority under this Act; and in every such case, the Director shall forthwith report the matter to the Government. Public health establishment of local authorities