Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 · Chapter II: Corporation, Standing Committee and Medical Benefit Council
Section 13: Disqualification
The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as or for being a member of the Corporation, the Standing Committee or the Medical Benefit Council—
(a) if he is declared to be of unsound mind by a competent Court; or
(b) if he is an undischarged insolvent; or
(c) if he has directly or indirectly by himself or by his partner any interest in a subsisting contract with, or any work being done for, the Corporation except as a medical practitioner or as a shareholder (not being a Director) of a company; or
(d) if before or after the commencement of this Act, he has been convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
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