Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 · Chapter II: Corporation, Standing Committee and Medical Benefit Council
Section 14: Filling of vacancies
The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 from 21 November 2025.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.
(1) Vacancies in the office of [appointed] or elected members of the Corporation, the Standing Committee and the Medical Benefit Council shall be filled by [appointment] or election, as the case may be.
(2) A member of the Corporation, the Standing Committee or the Medical Benefit Council [appointed] or elected to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office only so long as the member in whose place he is [appointed] or elected would have been entitled to hold office if the vacancy had not occurred.
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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