Ambulance Transport Service (Amendment) Act 1924 (NSW)
AMBULANCE TRANSPORT SER-
VICE (AMENDMENT) ACT.
Act No. 74, 1924.
An Act to amend the Ambulance Transport Service Act, 1919, ami certain other Acts : to vali- date the reappointment of the hoard by the Governor and their transactions ; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 24th December, 1924.]
Act. I> E it enacted by the Kind's Most Excellent Majesty, } l>y and' with the advice ;ind consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South
Wales ill Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows : —1 . This Act may he cited as the "Ambulance Transport Service (Amendment) Act, 1921," and shall be read and construed with the Ambulance Transport Service Act, 1919, hereinafter referred to as the Principal
2 . (1) The reappointment by the Governor from time to time for further terms of the members of the board holding office prior to the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, is hereby validated ; all transactions and proceedings of the board subsequent to the said day shall be deemed to be as valid and effectual as if the board had been duly appointed or elected.
(2) The members of the board holding office at the date of the commencement of this Act shall continue to hold office for a period of six months thereafter; and shall if otherwise qualified be eligible for reappoint ment or election.
3. The Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from section two the definition of " contributor " ; (b) by inserting in the same section after the definition of "district committee" the following definition:—• " Industrial contribution scheme " means a scheme agreed upon by any employer and his employees, and approved by the district committee, and which has for its object the making of contributions to the funds of the district committee.
(c)
by inserting in the same section after the definition of "life member" the following definition:—•
" Public appeal" means any appeal made to the general public or to public bodies, business firms, or private individuals, whether by writing or through the press or by personal canvassing, and includes the raising of funds by means of art unions, carnivals, bazaars, or fancy fairs.
(d)
by adding at the end of section five the following new paragraphs :—
(d)
the officer-in-charge of the New South "Wales District of the Saint John Ambulance Brigade (Overseas) and one
member
member of the district staff of such brigade to be nominated by such officer-in-charge;
(e)
one member to be elected, as prescribed by the Saint John Ambulance Asso ciation, New South Wales centre ;
(f)
one member, who shall be a qualified am bulance transport man nominated by the executive of the Hospital Employees' Association of New South Wales.
(e) by omitting from section twelve all words following the words " Central District " and inserting in lieu thereof the words " a n d shall include within its area the City of Sydney. Sub-districts may be established with the sanction of the board and attached to any district. A sub-district shall be controlled and managed in the manner prescribed." (f) by adding the following new sections after section fourteen : — 11A. The following persons shall be con tributors within the meaning of this Act :—•
(1) A life member, as and from the first day of Ju ly next following the date upon which he becomes a life member.
(2 ) Any person who in any year between the first day of July and the thirtieth day of June next following has con tributed to the funds of the board or of
a district committee a sum of not less than ten shillings. Such person shall be deemed to be a contributor as and from the first day of July next following the last-men tioned date, and for a period of twelve months thereafter. (3) Any person nominated in the manner prescribed by the parties to any indus trial contribution scheme or by the promoters of any undertaking for raising funds for the board or for a district committee.
Nominations
Nominations may be made only in respect of sums contributed in any year between the first day of July and the thirtieth day of June next following. They shall he made prior to the last-mentioned date and in accordance with the following provisions :—
(a) Where the sum contributed exceeds five pounds, and does not exceed fifty pounds, one person may be nominated. (b) Where the sum contributed exceeds fifty pounds, but does not exceed one hundred pounds, two persons may be nominated. (c) Where the sum contributed exceeds one hundred pounds, but does not exceed two hundred pounds, three persons may be nominated. (d) Tor every one hundred pounds, or part thereof in excess of two hundred pounds contributed, one additional person may be nominated. Any person so nominated shall be deemed to be a contributor as and from the first day of July next following the date of his nomination, and for a period of twelve months thereafter.
14B. The provisions of the Truck Act, 1900, or of section forty-nine of the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912, or of any Act amending or replacing those provisions shall not apply in respect of deductions from the remuneration
contribution scheme. of an employee made under any industrial
(g) by omitting section sixteen and inserting the following section in lieu thereof:— 1G. (1) Any real or personal property which is at the commencement of the Ambulance Transport Service (Amendment) Act, 1924, vested in or held by any person for or on behalf of any of the ambulance brigades mentioned in section four of this Act, or for ambulance transport purposes, is hereby vested in the board.
(2)
(2) Any real or personal property which after the commencement of the Ambulance Transport Service (Amendment) Act, 1924, is acquired by a district committee, or by any person, and held in trust for or on behalf of a district committee or for ambulance transport or first aid purposes, shall, if the board so requires, be forthwith assured to and vested in the board or as the board may direct.
(3) Upon the appointment and delimita tion of a district in pursuance of section twelve of this Act, and thereafter from time to time, the hoard may set apart any portion of the property vested in it under this section for the use of that district. Such property shall be under the control and management of the district committee.
(1) The board may, upon the request of any district committee, mortgage the whole or any part of the property set apart as aforesaid for the use of such district, and pay the money so raised to the district committee.
(h)
by omitting from section nineteen the words " subject to the next succeeding section" ;
(i) by omitting section twenty ;
(j)
by omitting at the end of section twenty-one the words " transport work " and inserting in lieu thereof the following:—
(a) Transport work.
(b) The collection of funds by public appeal,
unless with the previous sanction of the board. (c)
The opening or carrying on of first-aid stations in any district appointed and delimited by the board.
(k) by inserting after section twenty-one the following new sections :— 21A. I t shall be unlawful for any person to collect funds by public appeal for any ambulance, ambulance transport, first aid, or teaching of first aid purposes, except with the sanction of the board.
21B.
21B. I t shall be unlawful for any person to
conduct a public ambulance transport service
for gain in any area which has not beer. J
appointed and delimited as a district, except •with the sanction of the board.
21c. Any person who commits a breach of '
any of the provisions of the last three pre- '
and shall upon conviction before a police or1 ceding sections shall be guilty of an offence,stipendiary magistrate, or two or more justices of the peace, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.
(1) by inserting in subsection one of section :
twenty-two the following new paragraph next
before paragraph (i) :—(111) for regulating and controlling, either generally or in respect of particular districts, the collection of contributions under an industrial contribution scheme.
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