Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital Act, 1955

An Act to provide for the transfer of the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital in Calcutta to the State of West Bengal and for the division and administration of the cash assets of the Countess of Duffer in Fund, Bengal Branch. Whereas a Fund known as the Countess of Duffer in Fund, Bengal Branch, consisting of lands, buildings and other immovable properties, cash and securities, and equipments, furniture and other movable properties is vested in the Governing Body of the Bengal Branch of the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India, a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 ; And Whereas the said Society runs a hospital known as the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital situated at 1B, Amherst Street in the town of Calcutta ; And Whereas the Governing Body of the said Society has, by a resolution passed on the 8th July, 1949, resolved that the Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital together with all the lands, buildings, erections, fixtures, furniture, equipments and other appurtenances of the said hospital should be transferred to the State of West Bengal; And Whereas the Governing Body of the said Society has by the said resolution further resolved that the cash assets including securities, of the said Countess of Dufferin Fund, Bengal Branch, should be apportioned between West Bengal and East Bengal, in the ratio of three to one and should be administered in the manner hereinafter appearing; And Whereas the State of West Bengal has agreed to take over the said Lady Dufferin Victoria Zenana Hospital together with all the lands, buildings, erections, fixtures, furniture, equipments and other appurtenances of the said hospital and to run the same as a State hospital and to the apportionment of the cash assets including securities of the said Countess of Dufferin Fund, Bengal Branch and their administration, in the manner hereinbefore stated; It is hereby enacted as follows :-

Act number

Act 16 of 1955

Year

1955

Enacted on

27-04-1955

In force from

27 April 1955

Jurisdiction

West Bengal State Act

Subjects

Health And Medicine, Trusts

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