Establishment, constitution and incorporation of Board

(1) The State Government may, as soon as may be, by notification in the official Gazette, constitute a Board, to be called the Karnataka Board of Homœopathic System of Medicine. The Board shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and may by the said name sue and be sued. (2) The Board shall consist of eleven members including the President and shall be constituted in the following manner, namely:— (i) A President who shall be a registered practitioner; (ii) Five members nominated by the State Government out of whom two at least shall be registered practitioners; (iii) six members elected by the registered practitioners from among themselves, whose names are entered in Part A and B of the register: Provided that,- (a) for a period of five years after the coming into force of this Chapter, the President shall be appointed by the State Government; In section 24 of the principal Act, for sub-section (1), the following shall be deemed to have been substituted with effect from 1st January, 1996, namely:-

"(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 18 or 20, each Homoeopathic Practitioner other than a Homoeopathic Practitioner whose name is entered in the register under section 18 or continued in the register shall pay to the Board on or before the thirty first day of December of every year and in succeeding year in which his name is entered in the register and every year thereafter a prescribed renewal fee for the continuance of his name on the register:

Provided that a Homoeopathic Practitioner registered under this Act, before the commencement of the life time registration may pay such amount as renewal fee, as may be prescribed, for the continuance of his name on the register for life time.”