(1) The posts included in the cadre of the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service shall be non-practising.
(2) Any person appointed to a post included in the cadre of the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service may be granted such non-practising allowance as may be prescribed.
10. Any person of the West Bengal General Service appointed to the post of Homoeopathic Medical Officer, including those who are in Administrative posts, other than a post included in the cadre of the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service shall be included in the cadre of the West Bengal Homoeopathic Healtl Service.
Cadre of \Vest Bengal Homoeopathic Health Service.
Posts in cadre of West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service to be nonpractising.
-A 4 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, AUGUST 1, 2002 [PART III The West Bengal State Homoeopathic Health Service Act, 2002.
(Sections 11-14.)
11. A person working as the Homoeopathic Medical Officer prior to the commencement of the Act shall be included in the cadre of the West Bengal Homoeopathic Health Service and shall not be allowed to opt for the cadre of the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service.
12. Any person who has held, or who holds, immediately before the coming into force of this Act, a teaching post, in the Homoeopathic Medical Colleges of the State Government, under the West Bengal General Service, on terms and conditions for practice or non-practice, may exercise an option for the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service or for the West Bengal Homoeopathic Health 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 Homoeopathic Education Service or in the West Bengal Homoeopathic Health Service, as the case may be:
Provided that the Homoeopathic Medical Officers temporarily engaged to such teaching posts in the Homoeopathic Medical Colleges of the State Government shall not be eligible for exercising the option for the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service:
Provided further that a person exercising option for the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service and a person selected for appointment to the same service shall, upon appointment to a teaching post in the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service, be required to perform duties in a Hospital in addition to his duties as a Teacher of the discipline concerned having such designation as may be prescribed:
Provided also that the persons holding teaching posts other than Homoeopathic Medical Officers 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 Homoeopathic Education Service.
13. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 12, the persons holding teaching posts of any rank on terms and conditions for practice prior to coming into force of this Act, who do not exercise option for the West Bengal Homoeopathic Education Service but opt for the West Bengal Homoeopathic Health Service, may, on transfer from such posts, be appointed to the West Bengal Homoeopathic Health Service in phases within a period of one year from the date of coming into force of this Act.