Health Services (Amendment) Law

Health Services (Amendment) Law


A LAW TO AMEND THE HEALTH SERVICES ACT.

BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: –
Short title.
1. This Law may be cited as the Health Services (Amendment) Law, No. 3 of 1977,
Amendment of section 18 of Chapter 219.
2. Section 18 of the Health Services Act is hereby amended as follows: –

(1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section;
(2) in the renumbered subsection by the substitution, for paragraph (e) of that subsection, of the following new paragraph: –

” (e) if he is removed from office by the Minister.”; and
(3) by the insertion, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1), of the following new subsection: –

” (2) The Minister may without assigning any reason remove any member of a regional hospitals board or hospital committee from office, Such removal shall be final and conclusive and shall not be questioned in any court or tribunal.”.