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ACT XII OF 2019 ACT XII OF 2019 BALOCHISTAN HEALTHCARE COMMISSION ACT, 2019 An Act to improve quality of healthcare services and ban quackery in all its forms and manifestations in Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 16th December, 2019] No. PAB / Legis; V(10) / 2019, dated 16.12.2019.---The Balochistan Health Care Commission Bill 2019 Bill No. 10 of 2019 having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 18th November, 2019 and assented to by the Governor Balochistan, on 10th December, 2019 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochitsan Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---WHEREAS, it is expedient to make provisions for the improvement of quality of healthcare services, clinical governance and to ban medical or health quackery in all its forms and manifestations and to provide for establishment of the Balochistan Healthcare Commission and the matters connected or ancillary thereto; It is hereby enacted as follows:- 3. Establishment of Commission.---(1) The Government shall, by notification in the official gazette, with such composition of members as provided in section 5 of this Act, establish a Commission to be called "the Balochistan Healthcare Commission", for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) The Commission shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal, with powers to enter into contract, sue and be sued by its name. (3) The head office of the Commission shall be at Quetta and it may have such other offices in Balochistan as the Commission may determine from time to time. (4) All the affairs of the Commission shall be run by the Commission comprising all its members and Chairperson jointly in accordance to the provision of this Act and the Rules and Regulations made thereunder.