Central Act

The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948

This Act was repealed on 21 November 2025 by the Code on Social Security, 2020 (36 of 2020), s.164(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

13. Disqualification.—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.