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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:- 11. Disqualification of Chief Executive Officer.---A person shall not be appointed or hold office as Chief Executive Officer, who- (a) is a member of the Federal or Provincial legislature, local council or local body constituted under any law; (b) is employed in any capacity in the service related to the affairs of the Federation or Province or hold any office for which salary or other remuneration is payable out of public funds; (c) is a director, officer or employee of any healthcare service provider or has an interest or share in any healthcare establishment; and (d) has been convicted of tax evasion or for an offence involving moral turpitude; or is in default of payments due from him, for more than one hundred and eighty days, to any bank, financial institution, cooperative society, governmental agency, department or corporation.