The Haryana Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act, 2009 (Haryana Act No. 14 of 2009)

1. (1) This Act may be called the Haryana Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act, 2009. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Haryana.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “medicare service institution” means an institution used or intended to be used for the reception, accommodation, treatment and medicare of persons suffering from any sickness, injury or infirmity whether of body or mind and providing of treatment or nursing or both of them and includes maternity home, convalescent home, nursing home or hospital etc. owned or controlled either by the State Government or Central Government or any person or individual; (b) “medical service person” in relation to a medicare service institution shall include,— (i) registered medical practitioners (including those having provisional registration); (ii) registered nurses; (iii) medical students; (iv) nursing students; (v) para-medical workers.

3. (1) Whoever, endangers the life of or causes any harm, injury, intimidation, obstruction or hindrance to any medicare service person in the discharge of duty or damage to any property in medicare service institution, commits an act of violence which shall be an offence under this Act. (2) Whoever, either by himself or as a member or as a leader of a group of persons or organization commits or attempts to commit or abets or incites the commission or offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of three years and shall also be liable to a penalty of actual amount of purchase price of medical equipment damaged and loss caused to the property as may be determined by the competent court.

4. The offence committed under section 3 shall be cognizable and non-bailable.

5. If a person fails to pay the penal amount under section 3, the said amount shall be recoverable as if it were arrears of land revenue.

6. The provisions of this Act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any other law, for the time being in force.

7. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before the House of State Legislature, while it is in session.