(1) The posts included in the cadre of the West Bengal Dental Service shall consist of such non-practising posts as may be prescribed and shall include such other posts where practising option may be available on such terms and conditions and in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) Any person appointed to a non-practising post included in the cadre of the West Bengal Dental Service, or any person who opts for practice but not permitted to practice may be granted such non-practising allowance as may be prescribed.
11. Any person of the former West Bengal Dental Service appointed to a post included in the cadre of the West Bengal Dental Service, shall continue in such post on such terms and conditions as were immediately before the coming into force of this Act.
12. Any person who has held, or any person who holds immediately before the coming into force of this Act, a teaching post or a teaching administrative post in the former West Bengal Dental Service, may exercise an option for the West Bengal Dental Education Service or the West Bengal Dental Service in such manner as may be prescribed and thereupon such person shall be appointed or shall be deemed to have been appointed, as the case may be, to a post included in the West Bengal Dental Education Service or the West Bengal Dental Service, as the case maybe:
Provided that a person exercising option for the West Bengal Dental Education Service and a person selected for appointment to the West Bengal Dental Education Service shall, upon appointment to a teaching post in the West Bengal Dental Education Service, be required to perform duties in a Hospital in addition to his duties as Teacher of the discipline concerned having such designation as may be prescribed:
Provided further that the persons holding teaching posts and the persons holding administrative posts in the former West Bengal Dental Service immediately before the coming into force of this Act, who do not exercise any option under this section, shall be deemed to have exercised option for the West Bengal Dental Service.
Posts in the cadre of the West Bengal Posts in the cadre of the West Bengal Dental Service.
Persons appointed to posts in West Bengal Dental Service, to continue in such posts.
Status of persons holding teaching posts, in the former West Bengal Dental Service.
13. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 12, persons holding teaching posts of any rank or teaching administrative posts in the former West Bengal Dental Service, who do not exercise option for the West Bengal Dental Education Service, may, on transfer from such posts, be appointed to the West Bengal Dental Service in phases within a period of one year from the date of coming into force of this Act.