Government may require any municipal council to appoint a Health Officer.

[Content provided in document header: Government may require any municipal council to appoint a Health Officer.] (1) It shall be lawful for the Government,— (i) to require, if in its opinion at any time such an appointment is necessary, the appointment of a Health Officer to be made by any municipal council; (ii) to make in its discretion an order vetoing the appointment or continuance in any such office, of any person selected therefor or appointed thereto by any such municipal council, and the tenure of such office by any such person shall notwithstanding any contract or any other provision relating to his conditions of service, cease and determine on and from the date on which such order is communicated to the municipal council; (iii) to require that any person appointed to be a Chief Officer or a Municipal Commissioner shall be invested by any such municipal council with all or any of the powers which can, under this Act or under any rules or bye-laws in force at the time, be lawfully delegated to him, in addition to such powers as are conferred on him by Chapter XIV. (2) Any requisition issued to the municipal council under clauses (i) and (iii) of sub-section (1) shall be complied with within such time as the Government may in each case, specify in that behalf.