Medical Officers and private practic

. Medical Officers and private practice.—A Medical Officer employed under Government shall not maintain• or have any interest in a private nursing home, hospital, medical store or shop or similar establishment. He is also prohibited from examining or treating patients at Private Nursing Homes, Hospitals or Dispensaries even in an honorary capacity. He may, however, examine or treat patients outside duty hours at his residence or at the residence of the patients but shall not accommodate them as in-patients at his residence and shall not also conduct any operation on the patients at his or her residence. Medical Officers shall not be allowed to have private practice during their hours of duty. However, for attending emergent cases he may with the written permission of the Medical Officer-in-charge of the hospital where he is employed and subject to the condition that alternate arrangements are made by him in the hospital during his absence, leave the hospital: '[Provided that a teacher (Medical Officer) in Government Medical and Dental Colleges in the State shall not examine or treat patients outside duty hours at his residence or at the residence of the patients and shall not be allowed to have private practice of any nature.]