GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL West Ben. Act XXXVI of
1973.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT West Bengal Act I of 1974 THE WEST BENGAL MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGES (REGULATION OF ADMISSION) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1974.
[Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.]
[Assent of the Governor was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 4th March, 1974.]
[4th March, 1974.]
An Act to amend the.West Bengal Medical and Dental Colleges (Regulation of Admission) Act, 1973.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Medical and Dental Colleges (Regulation of Admissi on) Act, 1973, for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows
1. This Act may be called the West Bengal Medical and Dental Colleges (Regulation of Admission) (Amendment) Act, 1974.
2. In the West Bengal Medical and Dental Colleges (Regulation of Admission) Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), for the long title, the following long title shall be substituted.
"An Act to regulate admission into Medical and Dental Colleges in West Bengal to ensure adequate medical facilities in the districts, to make special provision for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, to make special reservations and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.".
3. In the said Act, for the existing preamble, the following preamble shall be substituted, namely :— "WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate admission into Medical and Dental Colleges in West Bengal to ensure adequate medical facilities in the districts, to make special provision for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, to make special reservations and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;".
4. In section 2 of the said Act,—
(1) for clause (d), the following clause shall be substituted, namely :— Short title.
Amendment of the long title of West Ben. Act XXXVI of
1973.
Amendment of the preamble.
Amendment of section 2.
The West Bengal Medical and Dental Colleges (Regulation of Admission) (Amendment) Act, 1974.
[West Ben. Act (Section 4.)
'(d) "normally resident in the district" means a person who has or whose parents have permanent residence in the district on the date on which such person makes an application for admission c9 a Medical College or Dental College and includes—
(i) a displaced person from erstwhile East Pakistan who had established permanent residence in that district prior to 25th March, 1971, subject to production by him of Indian Citizenship Certificate from the appropriate authority,
(ii) any son or daughter of an employee of the Central Government including Army, Navy or Air Force Officer, or of an employee of any State or Union Territory Government, or of an employee of any Statutory or Corporate Undertaking of the Central or any State or Union Territory Government, who is stationed for the time being in that district, and
(iii) any person who has or whose parents have permanent residence in that district but is at present residing outside that district.
Explanation.—"Permanent residence" means ordinary residence for a period of not less than two years;;
(2) for clause (g), the following clause shall be substituted, namely :— '(g) "qualifying examinations" means the Higher Secondary Examination in Science of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and includes such other examinations as the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify:
Provided that the State Government shall not specify any examination as qualifying examination unless such examination includes the following subjects, namely :—
(i) English,
(ii) Vernacular,
(iii) Physics,
(iv) Chemistry, and The West Bengal Medical and Dental Colleges (Regulation of Admission) (Amendment) Act, 1974.
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(v) Biology.
Explanation.—"Vernacular" includes Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Nepali and any otherModern Indian Languages as the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify ;' .
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