(1) The power to issue or renew licence to any Ayurveda Health Centre shall be with the Director.
(2) The licence shall only be given on the basis of the report of inspection and certification that the conditions specified under the provisions in section 4 has been complied with, by a Committee of three members consisting of the District Ayurveda Medical Officer of the district in which the establishment situates, a senior Ayurveda Medical Officer of the district concerned, as suggested by the Director and a Doctor in the Department of Kaya Chikilsa-Panchakarma of any Government Ayurveda College as suggested by the Director of Ayurveda Medical Education and it shall be specified in the licence, under which category the Ayurveda Health Centre comes.
(3) The Director of the Inspection Committee referred to in sub-section
(2) shall have the power to enter in any Ayurveda Health Centre, on complaint or suo motu and to inspect whether that Centre is following the conditions under section 4.
(4) For the purpose of inspection under sub-section (2) or sub-section (3), such officers shall have the power to require articles, registers, documents and to discover them and to conduct necessary search.
(5) The Manager of an Ayurveda Health Centre shall have the duty and responsibility to render all necessary assistance to the officers mentioned in subsection (2) to conduct inspection or search under this Act.
(6) Any person who does not render lawful assistance or obstructs the officers mentioned in sub-section (2), for conducting inspection or search under 8 this Act in an Ayurveda Health Centre, shall be deemed to have committed an offence under this Act.