Act Number: 34

Act Name: The Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital (Acquisition and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1977

Year: 1977

Enactment Date: 1977-12-03

Long Title: An Act to provide for the acquisition of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and for the management of the Kalavati Saran Hospital, with a view to ensuring better facilities for higher medical education for women and medical facilities for women and children in the Union territory of Delhi and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department: Department of Health and Family Welfare

Section 12: Contracts, in bad faith or detrimental to the interests of Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and Kalavati Saran Hospital to be cancelled or varied.
    (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 11, the Central Government may, if satisfied after such inquiry as it may think fit, that any contract or agreement entered into before the appointed day between the Board of Administration or Board of Management or any member thereof, in relation to the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, or any affairs connected with the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital or the Kalavati Saran Hospital, has been entered into in bad faith, or is detrimental to the interests of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, it may make an order cancelling or varying (either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose for the purpose) such contract or agreement and thereafter the contract or agreement shall have effect accordingly:
     Provided that no contract or agreement shall be cancelled or varied except after giving to the parties to the contract or agreement a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
     (2) Any person aggrieved by an order made under sub-section (1), may make an application to the principal court of civil jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital is situated, for the variation or reversal of such order and thereupon such court may confirm, modify or reverse such order.
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