(1} As soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, the Government shall, by notification in the Gazette, establish a Public Health Board.
(2. The Public Health Board shall consist of the following members’— fa) The Director of Public Health, the Surgeon General, the Director of Indigenous Medicine, the Superintendent, Public Health Laboratory and the Superintencent of the Avittom Thirunal Women and Children Hospital, Trivandrum, to be ex-officio members;
(b) Three members elected by the Legislative Assembly from among themseleves,
(c) one member elected by the members of the Council of the Corporation of Trivandrum from among themselves;
two members elected by the members of the Munione Councils in the State from among themselves:
an (¢) four members, one from each Revenue District elec’ca by the Presidents of Panchayats of that District from among themselves.
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(3) The Director of Public Health shall be the President of the Board and the District Health Officer, Trivandrum its secretary.
(4) If any of the members mentioned in clauses (b), (c),
(d) or (e) of sub-section (2) 1s not elected, the Government may nominate such person as they may deem fit; and the person so nominated shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to have been duly elected under clauses (b), (c), (d) or (e) of sub-section (2), as the case may be.
(5) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, make rules with reference to the election of members including election petitions and deposits to be made by the candidates standing for election as members and the conditions under which such deposits may be forfeited.