Functions of Councils

Subject to the provisions of this Act, a City Council and a District Council shall perform the following functions, namely:-

1. (a) to ensure provision of emergency medical services in the City or District;
2. (b) to prepare plans for implementation of emergency medical services in the City or, as the case may be, in the District;
3. (c) to entrust the work of providing or directing the life support system or limited life support system and pre-hospital care system to a hospital situate, in the City or, as the case may be, in the District;
4. (d) to prepare and maintain a register of base hospitals to which the Council has entrusted the work under clause (c);
5. (e) to supervise the functioning of base hospitals;
6. (f) to establish trauma centres in the City or, as the case may be, in the District;
7. (g) to grant certificates of recognition to persons referred to in section 45, non-Government organisations or persons for providing emergency medical services under section 46;
8. (h) to grant licences to ambulances to provide advanced life support service or basic life support service under section 49; and
   • (i) to perform such other functions as are entrusted to it by regulations.