Salary and allowances

(1) The Chairman and the Member-Secretary shall be paid from the Board Fund such salary and allowances as may be fixed by the State Government. (2) The other members of the Board shall be paid such allowances as may be fixed by the State Government. (3) If any member is by infirmity or otherwise rendered temporarily incapable of carrying out his duties or is absent on leave in circumstances not involving the vacation of his appointment, the State Government may appoint another person to officiate for him and to carry out his functions under this Act. (9) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-sections;- (a) no person employed in the Gujarat Public Health Engineering Service to whom any notice or order of termination of his services or compulsory retirement has been issued before the date of commencement of this Act shall be transferred to the Board; (b) the transfer of a person employed as aforesaid against whom any disciplinary proceeding is pending shall initially be provisional and the State Government shall review such transfer after the final order as a result of such disciplinary proceeding is passed and thereafter pass such order as may appear to it to be appropriate in the circumstances of the case; (c) the disciplinary or other action in relation to any person referred to in clause (a) or clause (b) may be taken after the date mentioned in clause (a) in such manner and by such authority as the State Government may by general or special order specify in this behalf; (d) if the services of any employee of the State Government stand transferred under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) to the Board, the Board shall be competent after such transfer to take such disciplinary or other action as it thinks fit against or in respect of such employee having regard to any act or omission or conduct or record of such employee while he was in service of the State Government. (10) (a) For the purpose of enabling the Board to discharge its functions and duties under this Act, it shall be lawful for the State Government to direct, by a general or special order, that such of officers of the State Government shall be posted under the Board for such period and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order and accordingly the officers specified in the order shall be posted under the Board. (b) The pay and allowances of any officer posted in accordance with clause (a) under the Board shall, during the period of posting, be paid by the Board from its fund.