Ambulance Services Act 1976 (NSW)

ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 72, 1976.

An Act relating to the provision of ambulance services in New South Wales; to make provision for the acquisition of property by the New South Wales Ambulance Board; to amend the Local Government Act, 1919, and certain other Acts in certain respects; to repeal the Ambulance Service Act, 1972, and to make provisions consequential thereon. [Assented to, 2nd December, 1976.] BE

Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in	BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

PART I.

PRELIMINARY.

1 .      This Act may be cited as the "Ambulance Services Act,

1 9 7 6 " .

( 1 ) This section and sections 1 and 1 7 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act.

2 .

( 2 ) Except as provided in subsection ( 1 ) , this Act

shall commence on such day as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

3 .   This Act is divided as follows :— PART I.—PRELIMINARY—ss . 1 - 4 .

PART I I .—POWERS, AUTHORITIES, DUTIES AND F U N C ­

TIONS OF THE COMMISSION—ss. 5 , 6 .

PART III .—CONTRIBUTION SCHEMES—ss. 7 - 9 .

PART I V . — F I N A N C E — s s . 1 0 - 1 2 .

PART V .—MISCELLANEOUS— s s . 1 3 - 2 0 .

SCHEDULE	1 . — R E P E A L OF	ACTS.
SCHEDULE	2 . — A M E N D M E N T OF	ACTS.

SCHEDULE

S C H E D U L E 3 .—SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PRO­

VISIONS.

In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject- matter otherwise indicates or requires—

4 .

"ambulance benefits" means benefits, services and concessions relating to ambulance services;

"ambulance services" means services relating to the work of rendering first aid to, and the transport of, sick and injured persons;

"appointed day" means the day appointed and notified under section 2 ( 2 ) ;
"Board" means the New South Wales Ambulance Board constituted under the repealed Act;
"Commission" means the Health Commission of New

South Wales;

"contribution" means contribution to a contribution

scheme;

"contribution scheme" means a scheme established,

conducted and operated by the Commission under
section 7 ;

"contributor" means—

(a) a person who is a contributor within the meaning of a contribution scheme; or

(b) a life member of a contribution scheme:

"regulation"

"regulation" means a regulation made under this Act; "repealed Act" means the Ambulance Service Act, 1972.

PART II.

POWERS, AUTHORITIES, DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE

COMMISSION.

(1) The Commission shall, on and after the appointed day, continue to provide, conduct, operate and maintain such ambulance services as were provided, conducted, operated and maintained by the Board immediately before the appointed day subject to such alterations as it from time to time deems necessary in the public interest.

5 .

(2 ) The Commission may, on and after the appointed day, co-operate with or provide assistance to any person or organisation for the purpose of providing, conducting, operating and maintaining ambulance services.

(1 ) The Commission may appoint such persons as it thinks fit to be honorary ambulance officers.

6.

(2) Honorary ambulance officers—
(a)	shall carry out, without remuneration, such duties relating to the provision of ambulance services as the Commission may from time to time direct; and
(b)	shall be subject to the control and supervision of the Commission.

PART

PART HI.

CONTRIBUTION SCHEMES.

7 .       ( 1 ) The Commission may from time to time by

resolution—

(a) provide for the establishment, conduct and opera­ tion of a contribution scheme whereby ambulance benefits are provided for contributors and their dependants; and

(b) change the provisions of a contribution scheme.

(2 ) Without limiting the generality of subsection ( 1 ) ,

a resolution of the Commission relating to a contribution

scheme may make provision for or with respect to—

(a)	the contributors or classes of contributors for whom ambulance benefits are to be provided under the contribution scheme;
(b)	the dependants or classes of dependants of con­ tributors for whom ambulance benefits are to be provided under the contribution scheme;
(c)	the persons or classes of persons other than con­ tributors or their dependants for whom ambulance benefits are to be provided under the contribution scheme;

(d) the ambulance benefits or classes of ambulance	benefits to be provided under the contribution
scheme;
(e)	the rates or amounts of contribution to be paid in respect of the contribution scheme;
(f)	the periods in respect of which contribution to the contribution scheme is to be paid;
(g)	the manner of payment, collection and recovery of contribution to the contribution scheme; and

(h)

(h) all matters consequential upon or ancillary to the matters in respect of which a resolution may be made under the foregoing provisions of this section.

(3 ) A resolution referred to in this section may be limited in its application to a part of the State specified in that resolution or in a subsequent resolution.

The Commission may appoint as a life member of a contribution scheme a person who in its opinion has rendered meritorious service in the provision, conduct, operation or maintenance of ambulance services.

8 .

The provisions of the Truck Act of 1900 or of section 92 or 93 of the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1940, shall not apply in respect of deductions by way of contribution from the remuneration of an employee.

9.

PART IV.

FINANCE.

1 0 . (1 ) There shall be established in the Special Deposits

Account at the Treasury a fund to be called the "Ambulance
Services Fund".

(2 ) Money provided by Parliament for or in connec­ tion with the provision, conduct, operation or maintenance of ambulance services by the Commission and any other money received by the Commission for those purposes shall be paid to the credit of the Ambulance Services Fund.

(3 )

(3 ) The money paid to the Ambulance Services Fund may only be used for or in connection with the pro­ vision, conduct, operation or maintenance of ambulance services.

1 1 .       (1 ) The Commission may establish such special

project accounts as it sees fit.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and ( 4 ) , money in a special project account may only be used for or in connection with such purposes related to the improvement of ambulance services as are approved by the Commission and, if the Com­ mission has, under section 14 (3) (a ) , specified an area in which the money shall be used, may only be used in that area.

(3 ) The Commission may invest money in a special project account in any manner authorised by the Trustee Act, 1925, for the investment of trust funds or in any prescribed manner.

(4 ) Where the Commission—

(a) has, under section 14 (3) (a), specified an area in which money collected pursuant to a consent given under section 14 (1) shall be used; and

(b) subsequently forms the opinion—

(i) that ambulance services in that area would

be better served by the use of that money for

a purpose approved by the Commission other than that for which the money was collected; and

(ii)   that the public in that area will derive a substantial benefit from the use of that money for that other purpose,

the Commission may, but only if the Minister consents, use that money for that other purpose whether or not the imple­ mentation of that other purpose would result in the money or any part of it being used outside that area.

(5)

(5) A regulation may be made providing for the pooling for investment purposes of money in a special project account with money in any other special project account and for matters incidental to or arising from the investment of any such money.

12. (1 ) The Minister may, by notice published in the

Gazette—

(a) fix a scale of fees in respect of ambulance services provided by the Commission; and

(b) amend or revoke any scale of fees so fixed.

(2) The Commission may remit or postpone pay­ ment of all or any amounts due to the Commission in respect of ambulance services provided by the Board before the appointed day and payment of all or any amounts due to the Commission in respect of ambulance services provided by the Commission.

P A R T V.

MISCELLANEOUS.

13. (1) A person shall not—

(a)	directly or indirectly provide or take part in the provision of transport for sick or injured persons for fee or reward; or
(b)	conduct for fee or reward any operations similar to the operations carried on by the Commission under this Act,

without the consent of the Commission and except in accordance with such conditions (if any) as the Commission may from time to time impose.

(2 )

(2 ) The Commission may revoke any consent given, or revoke or vary any condition imposed, under subsection ( 1 ) .

(3 ) Subsection (1) does not apply t o—

(a) the Commission;

(b) the Saint John Ambulance Association and the Saint John Ambulance Brigade (Overseas) New South Wales District in respect of operations similar to the operations lawfully carried on by those bodies immediately before the appointed day ;

(c) the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

(N.S.W. Section);

(d) the committee of a district constituted under the Mines Rescue Act, 1925 ; or

(e) any prescribed person or class of persons.

14.       (1) A person shall not organise, conduct or take part

in the collection or soliciting of money or property from the public for, towards or in return for the provision of ambulance services without the consent of the Commission and except in accordance with such conditions (if any) as the Commission may from time to time impose.

(2 ) The Commission may revoke any consent given,

or revoke or vary any condition imposed, under subsection
( 1 ) . (3) Where the Commission gives a consent under

subsection (1) it shall specify—

(a)	the area in which any money collected pursuant to that consent shall be used; and
(b)	the special project account into which any money collected pursuant to that consent shall be paid.

(4 )

(4 ) The area to which a consent referred to in subsection (3) (a ) relates may be the whole of the State of New South Wales or such part thereof as is specified by the Commission.

(5 ) Subsection (1) does not apply t o—

( a) the Commission;

(b) an insurer under a policy of insurance to the extent that the money or the property represents con­ sideration for an indemnity provided in that policy against the cost of the transport of sick or injured persons, being an indemnity incidental to the risks insured under that policy; or

(c) any prescribed person or class of persons.

15.       (1) A person who contravenes or fails to comply

•with a provision of this Act is guilty of an offence against

this Act.

(2) A person who is guilty of an offence against this

Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $500.

(3 ) All proceedings for offences against this Act

•shall be disposed of summarily before a stipendiary magistrate.

16. (1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter which by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or which is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2 ) A regulation may be made so as to apply differently according to such factors as are specified in the regulation.

17. The Ambulance Service Act, 1972, is amended by inserting after section 18 the following section : —

1 8A. (1 ) The Board has power to acquire, and shall be deemed always to have had power to acquire, by gift inter vivos, devise or bequest, any property for the purposes of this Act and to agree to the condition of any such gift, devise or bequest.

(2 ) The rule of law against the remoteness of vesting shall not apply, and shall be deemed never to have applied, to any such condition to which the Board has agreed.

18.       (1) Each Act specified in Schedule 1 is repealed.

(2) Section 17 is repealed.

19. Each Act specified in Column 1 of Schedule 2 is amended in the manner set forth opposite that Act in Column 2 of Schedule 2.

20.      Schedule 3 has effect.

S C H E D U L E

S C H E D U L E 1.

R E P E A L OF A C T S .

Year and number

of Act. Short title of Act.

1972, No. 15	Ambulance Service Act, 1972.
1975, No. 6	Ambulance Service (Amendment) Act, 1975.

S C H E D U L E 2.

A M E N D M E N T OF A C T S .

Column 1. Column 2.

Year and	Short title
number of	Amendment.

Act. of Act.

1919, No. 4 1 . . Local Govern­ Section 298 (1) (d)—

ment Act, Omit "New South Wales Ambulance

1919. Board", insert instead "Health Com­
mission".

Section 298 (2)—

Omit "New South Wales Ambulance Board", insert instead "Health Com­ mission".

1920, No. 4 7 . . Stamp Duties Section 97AA (3) (d) (ii)—

Act, 1920.	Omit "Act, or by or on behalf of the New South Wales Ambulance Board; or", insert instead "Act; or".
Second Schedule, General Exemptions from

Stamp Duty under Part I I I —

Omit paragraph (11).

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S C H E D U L E 2—continued.

A M E N D M E N T OF ACTS—cont inued .

Column 1. Column 2.

Year and	Short title
number of	Amendment.
Act.	of Act.

1926, No. 15 . .	Workers' Com­	Section 6 (14D) (a)—
pensation	Omit "New South Wales Ambulance

Act, 1926. Board", insert instead "Health Com­
mission of New South Wales".

Section 6 (14D) (a)—

Omit "that Board", insert instead "that Commission".

1942, No. 15 . . Motor Vehicles Section 24, definition of "Ambulance ve­

(Third Party	hicle"—
Insurance)	Omit "New South Wales Ambulance;
Act, 1942.	Board", insert instead "Health Com­ mission of New South Wales".

1943, No. 2 2 . .	Sydney	Turf	Section 11 (2) (c)—
Club	Act,	Omit "New South Wales Ambulance- Board", insert instead "Health Com­ mission of New South Wales, in respect of ambulance services".

1943.

1944,No. 15 . . Crown Em­ Section 2 (1), definition of "Employing

ployees Ap­ authority"—

peal Board After "means", insert ", subject to sub­

Act, 1944. section (4),".

Section 2 (4)—

After section 2 (3), insert:—
(4) Where the name of a person appears in the Second Schedule in respect of a person or class of persons, the firstmentioned person is, for the purposes of this Act, an employing authority only in respect of that other person or class o f persons.

Second Schedule—

Omit "The New South Wales Ambulance Board.", insert instead "The Health Commission of New South Wales in respect of persons employed under section 14A of the Health Commission Act, 1972, in connection with ambu­ lance services.".

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S C H E D U L E 2—continued.

A M E N D M E N T OF ACTS—cont inued.

Column 1.	Column 2.
Year and	Short title
number	Amendment.
of Act.	of Act.

1957, No. 2 8 . . Attachment of Section 10 (12), definition of "employing

Wages Limit­ authority"—

ation Act, After "means", insert ", subject to sub­

1957.   section (12A),".

Section 10 (12A)—

After section 10 (12), insert:—
(12A) Where the name of a person appears in the Schedule in respect of a person or class of persons, the first- mentioned person is, for the purposes of this Act, an employing authority only in respect of that other person or class of persons.

Schedule-

Omit "New South Wales Ambulance Board.", insert instead "Health Com­ mission of New South Wales in respect of persons employed under section 14A of the Health Commission Act, 1972, in connection with ambulance services.".

S C H E D U L E 3.

SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS.

1. In this Schedule, except in so far as the context or subject-matter

otherwise indicates or requires—

"permanent servant" has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannuation) Act, 1927;

^superannuation scheme" means a scheme, fund, account or
arrangement under which any superannuation or retirement

benefits are provided and which is established by or under

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S C H E D U L E 3—continued.

SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS—continued.

the Local Government and Other Authorities (Superannua­ tion) Act, 1927, and includes an insurance policy on the life of the secretary of the Board in respect of which a share of the premium is contributed by the Board.

2.   On and from the appointed day—

(a)	all real and personal property and all right and interest therein and all management and control thereof that, imme­ diately before that day, was vested in or belonged to the Board shall vest in and belong to the Commission;
(b)	all money and liquidated and unliquidated claims that, imme­ diately before that day, were payable to or recoverable by the Board shall be money and liquidated and unliquidated claims payable to or recoverable by the Commission;
(c)	all proceedings commenced before that day by the Board and pending immediately before that day shall be deemed to be proceedings commenced by the Commission and all proceed­ ings so commenced by any person against the Board and pending immediately before that day shall be proceedings deemed to be respectively commenced by that person against the Commission;
(d)	all contracts, agreements, arrangements and undertakings entered into with and all securities lawfully given to or by the Board and in force immediately before that day shall be deemed to be contracts, agreements, arrangements and undertakings entered into with and securities given to or by the Commission;

(e) the Commission may, in addition to pursuing any other

remedies or exercising any other powers that may be avail­ able to it, pursue the same remedies for the recovery of money and claims referred to in this clause and for the prosecution of proceedings so referred to as the Board might have done but for the enactment of this Act;

(f) the Commission may enforce and realise any security or

charge existing immediately before that day in favour of the Board and may exercise any powers thereby conferred on the Board as if the security or charge were a security or charge in favour of the Commission;

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SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL	PROVISIONS—continued.
(g)	all debts, money and claims, liquidated and unliquidated, that, immediately before that day, were due or payable by, or recoverable against, the Board shall be debts due, money payable by and claims recoverable against, the Commission; and
(h)	all liquidated and unliquidated claims for which the Board would, but for the enactment of this Act, have been liable shall be liquidated and unliquidated claims for which the Commission shall be liable.

3 . A reference to the Board in any other Act or in any by-law, regulation, statutory instrument or other document, whether of the same or of a different kind, shall be construed as a reference to the Commission.

4. A n y act, matter or thing done or omitted to be done before the appointed day by the Board or a delegate of the Board, or to or in respect of the Board shall, to the extent that but for the enactment of this Act that act, matter or thing would on or after that day have had any force or effect or been in operation, be deemed to have been done or omitted to be done by, to or in respect of the Commission.

5. A person who, immediately before the appointed day, was a member of the Board and who ceases to be such a member by reason of the enactment of this Act is not entitled to be paid any remuneration or compensation by reason of his ceasing to be such a member.

6. N o attornment to the Commission by a lessee from the Board shall be required.

7. A person who, immediately before the appointed day, was a person in respect of whom an appointment as an honorary ambulance officer was in force under section 12 (1 ) of the repealed Act shall be deemed to be an honorary ambulance officer appointed under
section 6	( 1 ) .

8. ( 1 ) Money provided to the Board by Parliament before the appointed day for or in connection with the provision, conduct, operation and maintenance of ambulance services and any other money received by the Board from any other person for those purposes that has not been used shall be paid to the credit of the Ambulance Services Fund established under section 10.

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SCHEDULE 3—continued.

SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS—continued.

(2) Where immediately before the appointed day money col­ lected from the public for use for or in connection with the improve­ ment of ambulance services is at credit in a bank account of the Board (not being an account from which maintenance and operating- expenses are paid) that account shall be deemed to be a special* project account established by the Commission pursuant to section 11, but section 11 (4) does not apply to or in respect of that account.

(3) Where the Commission is of the opinion that—

(a)	money at credit in a bank account as referred to in subclause (2) had, before the appointed day, been collected from the public for use for or in connection with the improvement of ambulance services and had been collected substantially within the boundaries of a district established and defined' pursuant to section 21 (1) (a) of the repealed Act;
(b)	ambulance services in that district would be better served by the use of that money for a purpose other than that for which the money was collected; and
(c)	the public in that district will derive a substantial benefit from the use of that money for that other purpose,

the Commission may, but only if the Minister consents, use that money for that other purpose whether or not the implementation of that other purpose would result in the money or any part of it being, used outside that district.

9. Subject to section 7 ( 1 ) (b), the contribution scheme established,

conducted and operated by the Board under section 35 (1) of the repealed Act as so established, conducted and operated immediately before the appointed day shall, on and after that day, be deemed to

have been established by the Commission under section 7.

10. A person who, immediately before the appointed day, was a life member of the contribution scheme established, conducted and operated under section 35 (1) of the repealed Act shall be deemed to be a life member of the contribution scheme referred to in clause 9.

11. A person who, immediately before the appointed day, was a contributor (other than a life member of the contribution scheme established, conducted and operated under section 35 (1) of the repealed Act) shall, on and after that day and for such period as he would have been such a contributor if this Act had not been enacted, be deemed to be a contributor under this Act.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE 3—continued.

SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS—continued.

12. A person who, immediately before the appointed day, was a servant of the Board shall, on that day, become and be a servant of the Commission and shall be deemed to have been appointed and employed pursuant to section 14A of the Health Commission Act, 1972, in connection with ambulance services.

13. (1) A person to whom clause 12 applies shall retain any rights which have accrued or are accruing to him as a permanent servant and shall continue to contribute to any superannuation scheme to which he was a contributor immediately before the appointed day and shall be entitled to receive any payment, pension or gratuity, as if he had continued, as a servant of the Board, to be a permanent servant.

(2) The Commission, in respect of a person to whom clause 12 applies, shall pay to the Local Government Superannuation Board such amounts as would have been payable by the Board to the Local Government Superannuation Board in respect of that person if he had remained, as a servant of the Board, a permanent servant and as if he were receiving from the Board the same salary or wages as is or are being paid to him during his service with the Commission.

(3) A person to whom clause 12 applies shall be paid salary or wages at a rate not less than the rate which was payable to him immediately before the appointed day, subject to any adjustment necessary to give effect to any fluctuation in a basic or minimum wage by reference to which his salary or wages is or are fixed, until the salary or wages payable to him is or are varied or altered pursuant to an award of a competent tribunal or an industrial agreement or by the Commission.

(4) Where any condition of employment of a person to whom

clause 12 applies was, immediately before the appointed day, regu­

lated by an award or industrial agreement, that condition shall con­tinue to be so regulated until it is varied by an award by which the	Commission is bound made by a court of competent jurisdiction, or
that condition is regulated by an industrial agreement to which the Commission is a party.
(5) The period of service with the Board of a person to whom clause 12 applies shall be deemed to be service with the Commission for the purposes of annual leave, sick leave or long service leave.
(6) A person to whom clause 12 applies shall not, in respect of the same period of service, be entitled to claim a benefit under this Act and another Act.

SCHEDULE

S C H E D U L E 3—continued.

SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS—continued.

14. ( 1 ) In this clause, "prescribed person" means a person who is an officer of the Public Service to whom section 15 (2 ) of the repealed Act applied.

( 2 ) Subject to clause 15 ( 5 ) , a prescribed person shall, on and after the appointed day, retain any rights which have accrued or are accruing to him by virtue of the operation of section 15 ( 1 ) of the repealed Act immediately before that day and shall continue, on and after that day, to contribute to any superannuation scheme to which he was a contributor immediately before that day and shall be entitled to receive any payment, pension or gratuity, as if he had continued, as an officer of the Public Service, to be a permanent servant.

( 3 ) While a prescribed person continues to contribute under subclause (2 ) to a superannuation scheme, the Commission, in respect of a prescribed person, shall, on and after the appointed day, pay to the Local Government Superannuation Board such amounts as would have been payable on and after that day by the Board to the Local Government Superannuation Board in respect of that person if he had continued to be a permanent servant employed by the Board receiving from the Board the same salary or wages as is or are being paid to him during his service with the Commission.

15. ( 1 ) In this clause—

"contributor" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 3

( 1 ) of the Superannuation Act, 1916;

"prescribed person" means a person who is an officer of the Public Service to whom section 15 (2 ) of the repealed Act applied.

( 2 ) A prescribed person is not, on or after the appointed day,

while he remains an officer of the Public Service, entitled to become a
contributor except as provided in this clause.

( 3 ) A prescribed person may, by instrument in writing delivered to the secretary of the State Superannuation Board within 3 months after the appointed day, elect to become a contributor.

( 4 ) For the purpose only of applying the provisions of section 92A of the Superannuation Act, 1 9 1 6 —

(a) a person who makes the election referred to in subclause (3 ) in accordance with that subclause shall be deemed to be a person in the service of the Commission; and

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(b)	the Commission shall be deemed to be an employing authority specified in Schedule III to the Superannuation Act, 1916.

( 5 ) A prescribed person who, but for this subclause, would be entitled to continue to contribute to a superannuation scheme or to receive any payment, pension or gratuity from any such scheme shall not be so entitled upon becoming a contributor.

( 6 ) Subclause (5 ) does not prevent the payment to a pre­ scribed person upon his ceasing to contribute to a superannuation scheme of such amount as would have been payable to him if he had ceased, by reason of his resignation, to be a permanent servant for the purposes of that scheme.

16. Where the person holding office as the secretary of the Board immediately before the appointed day does not become a contributor as referred to in clause 1 5 —

(a)	he shall on and after that day retain any rights which have accrued or are accruing to him immediately before that day under any insurance policy upon his life by wa3' of endow­ ment or annuity, and shall be entitled on or after that day to receive any payment, pension or gratuity under any such policy as if this Act had not been enacted; and
(b)	the Commission shall on and after that day pay the share of any premium contributed by the Board immediately before that day on any policy referred to in paragraph (a) upon the same terms and subject to the same conditions as the premium was so contributed by the Board.

17. ( 1 ) Where immediately before the appointed day an appeal is pending before, or could have been made to, the Crown Employees Appeal Board by a person who on that day becomes a servant of the Commission by the operation of clause 12, that appeal m a y —

(a) where it was pending, be continued or completed; or

(b) where it is made after that day, be commenced within the period prescribed by the Crown Employees Appeal Board Act, 1944, and be continued and completed,

and may be determined by the Crown Employees Appeal Board.

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SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS—continued.

( 2 ) The determination of the Crown Employees Appeal Board on an appeal referred to in subclause ( 1 ) shall be given effect to by the Commission.

18. For the purpose of section 298 of the Local Government Act, 1919, an ambulance service that, immediately before the appointed day, was an ambulance service approved by the Board shall, on and after that day, be deemed to be an ambulance service approved by the Commission.