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Any person who has held, or any person who holds immediately before the coming into force of this Act, a teaching post in the former West Bengal Health Service on terms and conditions for practice or non- practice, may exercise an option for the West Bengal Medical Education Service or the West Bengal Health Service in such manner as may be prescribed and thereupon such person shall be appointed or shall be deemed to have been appointed, as the case may be, to a post included in the West Bengal Medical Education Service or the West Bengal Health Service, as the case may be: Provided that a person exercising option for the West Bengal Medical Education Service and a person selected for appointment to the West Bengal Education Service shall, upon appointment to a teaching post in the West Bengal Medical Education Service, be required to perform duties in a Hospital in addition to his duties as Teacher of the discipline concerned having such designation as may be prescribed: Provided further that any person holding a post connected with Public Health or Administration in the former West Bengal Health Service immediately before the coming into force of this Act, may exercise an option for the West Bengal Health Service or the cadre for Public Health-cum-Administration as a separate unit of the West Bengal Health Service in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided also that the persons holding posts connected with Public Health or Administration in the former West Bengal Health Service immediately before the coming into force of this Act, who do not exercise any option as aforesaid, shall be deemed to have exercised option for the West Bengal Health Service but the posting of such persons in the West Bengal Health Service shall be made in phases: 74 The West Bengal State Health Service Act, 1990. VII of 1990.] (Sections 13, 14.) Provided also that the persons holding teaching posts and the persons holding administrative posts in the former West Bengal Health Service immediately before the coming into force of this Act, who do not exercise any option under this section, shall be deemed to have exercised option respectively for the West Bengal Health Service and the cadre for Public Health-cum-Administration as a separate unit of the West Bengal Health Service.