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   Honorarium.—Honorarium is as shown below subject to such condi-
tions as the Local Government may prescribe from time to time:—

   Duties.—(i) Honorary medical officers are required to perform such
duties as may be assigned to them by the head of the institution, in the
in-patients department, out-patients department or both, or teaching work.

      (ii) They are required to give at least three full hours of the best
part of the day for service in the hospitals to which they are appointed.

      (iii) Honorary medical officers who have only out-patients in their
charge have to attend daily during the out-patients hours.

      (iv) The hours of attendance are fixed by the heads of teaching institu-
tions, Superintendents of Hospitals or the District Medical Officers con-
cerned.

      (v) Honorary medical officers possessing special qualifications are, as
far as possible, placed in charge of special departments but they may,
with the approval of the Superintendent of the institution, undertake
general work in the institution to which they are attached.

      (vi) Honorary Surgeons and Physicians are placed in charge of a
specified number of beds for surgical and medical cases respectively and
they are entirely responsible for the treatment and care of the patients
in their charge. They are to visit the patients in their charge daily or
more than once daily should that be necessary, except on Sundays, and
answer all emergent calls relating to them on Sundays. The honorary
officers attached to hospitals run in connection with teaching institutions
are responsible for imparting such clinical instruction to students as may
be laid down by the Professor or the Superintendent of the institution.

      (vii) Honorary medical officers placed in sole charge of Government
medical institutions are required to co-operate with public health staff in
epidemic work in their localities in the event of a sudden outbreak of an
epidemic.

   Private Practice.—Honorary medical officers are free to undertake
private practice outside Government institutions but cannot (i) receive any
fee from patients seeking admission in Government hospitals, (ii) either
directly or indirectly admit or seek to admit in Government hospitals
patients from whom they have received fees, or (iii) discharge any patient