Temporary appointment of Additional Public Health Officers during emergency situations.

The State and the District Public Health Officers shall under the following circumstances have the power to appoint one or more medical officers as additional public health officers temporarily for a specified period, namely:—

1. (i) when notified communicable diseases occured or a threat of its outbreak is there;
2. (ii) when there is an outbreak of epidemic diseases, or a threat of such outbreak exists;
3. (iii) when there occurs disaster or unusual deaths;
4. (iv) in a situation where people gather on a large scale in an area;
5. (v) to prevent communicable diseases or to enquire into its causes and to prevent such causes;
6. (vi) in other emergency situations in which the State Public Health Officer considers necessary to appoint such additional public health officers.