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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:- 8. Disqualification.---No person shall be, or shall continue to be the Chairperson or as a member of the Commission, who - (a) has tendered resignation and not withdrawn it within a period of thirty days; (b) is, or at any time has been, adjudicated as insolvent; (c) is found to be of unsound mind by a court of competent jurisdiction; (d) is, or has at any time been, convicted of any offence which, in the opinion of the Government, is an offence involving moral turpitude; (e) absents himself from three consecutive meetings of the Commission, without leave of absence from the Commission; (f) is an employee, advisor or consultant of a healthcare service provider; (g) is a salaried official of the Commission; (h) employees of other private or public health or any other sector; and (i) other as prescribed in the rules.