Substitution of new section for section 11A

For section 11A of the principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely: Medical facilities to the Members of the Legislative Assembly and their families. 11A. Subject to such conditions as may be determined by rules made by the Government, every Member of the Legislative Assembly, who does not hold any of the offices referred to in sections 3 to 5 and sections 12A and 12B, and the members of his family shall be entitled to,-

1. (a) a medical allowance of rupees five hundred per mensum in lieu of supply of medicines free of charge from State Government hospital or dispensary;
2. (b) free accommodation and medical treatment in any hospital maintained by the State Government:
3. (c) reimbursement of the charges incurred towards hospitalisation in any Government hospital or in the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, where such hospitalisation is advised;
4. (d) medical treatment in any hospital outside India; and
5. (e) the provision of artificial limbs, hearing aids and the like at the cost of the State Government; Provided that, the cost to be borne or the amount to be reimbursed by the State Government in respect of medical treatment,-
   • (i) in any hospital within or outside India, shall not exceed such sum as may be specified in the rules made by the State Government in this behalf, inclusive of the fare for air passage and expenditure incurred towards personal attendant, in case where facility for such treatment is available in any hospital in India; or
   • (ii) in any hospital outside India, shall not exceed the actual expenditure incurred for such treatment and the fare for air passage of the person treated and his personal attendant in case facility for such treatment is not available in any hospital in India;
   • (iii) in respect of hospitalisation in any Government hospital or in the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, the amount to be reimbursed shall not exceed rupees forty thousand on each occasion.