(1) A Board may make regulations providing for--
(a) the payment of contributions or grants for the pr •vention and control of epidemic and other diseases and for welfare activities in the mining settlement;
(b) the qualifications, recruitment, suspension, d is-.
missal, leave, salaries and allowances, medical assistance, and other conditions of service, of the officers and servants, other than Health Officers, employed by the Board;
(c) the grant of pensions and gratuities out of the Mining Settlement Fund to the officers and servants of the Board other than Health Officers, including the grant of pensions and gratuities to members of the families of such officers and' servants of the Board as have died of any disease contracted or injury suffered in the discharge of duties imposed. by or under this Act which were attended with extraordinary bodily risk;
(ti) the creation and management of a provident or annuity fund, contributions to be made thereto by officers and servants of the Board, other than Health Officers, and by the Board ;
(e) the payment of advances to 'the officers and servants of the Board for the purpose of enabling them to acquire or construct residence for themselves or to purchase vehicles for use by them iii discharging the duties imposed on them by or under 'this Act.
(2) Regulations made by the Board under sub-section '(.1) shall not take effect until they have. been submitted to, and confirmed by, the State Government.
(3) The State Government may rescind any regulation which it has confirmed and thereupon such regulation shall cease to have effect.
Prosecution at the instance of the limed.
Cognizance of offences.
38. No prosecution shall be instituted for any offence under this Act or -under any rule, by-law or order made thereunder, except under the authority of the. Board.
39. No Magistrate other than a Magistrate of the first class or a Subdivisional Magistrate shall try any offence under this Aot or under any rule, by-law or order made thereunder which is ,punishable •with imprisonment.
The West Bengal Mining Settlements (Health and Welfare) 19 Act, 1964.
XXV of 1914.]
(Chapter Vll.—Miscellaneous.—Sections 40-43.)
40. A Board shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents; and every person required by the Board to furnish information before it shall be deemed to be legally bound to do so within the Act 45 of meaning of section 176 of the Indian Penal Code.
1800.
41. Any notice under section 19 shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been duly served after seven days have elapsed from the date of its despatch by registered post to the usual place of residence or business of the person to whom it is addressed.
42. (I) The Director of Health Services, West Bengal, or any other officer specially authorised by the State Government in this behalf, shall be entitled—
(a) to inspect any movable or immovable property used or occupied by a Board or any work in progress under its direction;
(b) to inspect any work or institution constructed or maintained in whole or in part at the expenses of a Board and all registers, books, accounts or other documents relating thereto;
(o) to supervise the work of the Health Officers of a Board and to record, in writing, for the consideration of the Board, any observations he thinks proper in regard to the promotion of public health and welfare services within the mining settlement;
(d) to attend meetings of a Board and to address its members on. any matter relating to public health and welfare services within the mining settlement.
(2) Every Board shall furnish such statements, accounts, reports or copies of documents as may be called for from time to time by the Director of Health Services, Bengal, or such other officer as the State Government may authorise in this behalf.
43. The State Government may, if it is of opinion that any order passed under this Act by a Board or any officer or servant of the Board is unreasonable or would work hardship or be not in the public interest, rescind or modify such order.
Powers of Mines Board of Health for obtaining evidence.
Service of notices.
Power of Direotor of Health Services, West Bengal.
Power of State Government to alter or rescind orders.
The West Bengal Mining Settlements (Heath and 20 Welfare) Art, 1964.
[West Ban. Act XXV of 1084.]
Board to comply with direotiom of the State Governmeat.
(Chapter VII.—Misaellaneous.—Seation. 44.)