Preamble

| SIKKIM wo NEA E GOVERNMENT Sol GAZETTE | LIAL GE Cf SS f EXTRAORDINARY i E PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY i Gangtok Monday 8th February, 2010 No. 23 GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM | LAW DEPARTMENT E GANGTOK | No. 4/LD/P/2010 Date: 5.2.2010 NOTIFICATION The following Act passed by the Sikkim Legislative Assembly and having received the assent of | the President on the 2° day of December, 2009 is hereby published for general information:- | THE SIKKIM NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS ACT, 2008 | {ACT NO. 4 OF 2008) |: AN ACT | to provide for the registration of Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors in the State of Sikkim. | Whereas it is expedient to provide for the registration of nurses, midwives and health visitors in the State of Sikkim; i Be it enacted by the Legislature of Sikkim in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as E follows | PARTI a PRELIMINARY E Short title, extent, 1.(1) This Act may be called the Sikkim Nurses, Midwives and 3 commencement Health Visitors Act, 2008. E and application. (2) It shall extend to the whole of Sikkim. E

1. (3) (a) (i) Part land section 29 of Part VII of this Act shall come into force | at once in the whole of Sikkim |
   • (ii) Parts II, Ill, V and VI and the remaining sections of Part VI this Act shall come into force in the whole of the State of Sikkim on such date as the State Government may by notification appoint.
   • (b) Part IV shall come into force on such date and shall apply to : such class of persons only in such areas as the State Government may by notification specify. |