Punjab Private Health Sciences Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission, Fixation of Fee and Making of Reservation) Amendment Act, 2020
No: 9 Dated: Apr, 17 2020
THE PUNJAB PRIVATE HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (REGULATION OF ADMISSION, FIXATION OF FEE AND MAKING OF RESERVATION) AMENDMENT ACT, 2020
(Punjab Act No. 9 of 2020)
An Act further to amend the Punjab Private Health Sciences Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission, Fixation of Fee and Making of Reservation) Act, 2006.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Seventy-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title extent and Commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Private Health Sciences Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission, Fixation of Fee and Making of Reservation) Amendment Act, 2020.
(2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Amendment or section 2 of Punjab Act 6 or 2006:- In the Punjab Private Health Sciences Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission, Fixation of Fee and Making of Reservation) Act, 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 2,
(i) after clause (d), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-
"(dd) "health sciences" means an education leading to impart Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BOS), Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS), Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) and/or their Post Graduate(s) and such other level of course(s) pertaining to health and medical education, as may be notified by the State Government from time to time;" and
(ii) for clause (i), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-
(i) "private health sciences educational institution'' means an institution, not established and administered by the Central or State Government and it includes an institution, by whatever name called, including any University, Deemed University or college, whether aided or unaided, non-minority and whether governed or administered or managed or run by an individual or individuals or Trust or any other private entity, agency or organization, which institution conducts or carries on the activity of imparting education to students leading to a degree or diploma in any course or courses in the field of Health Sciences;"