Area Health Services (Visiting Practitioners) Amendment Act 1988 (NSW)

AREA HEALTH SERVICES (VISITING PRACTITIONERS)

AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 32

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title
2. Commencement

3. Amendment of Area Health Services Act 1986 No. 50

AREA HEALTH SERVICES (VISITING PRACTITIONERS)

AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 32

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 32, 1988

An Act to amend the Area Health Services Act 1986 in relation to the

conditions of service of visiting practitioners in hospitals under the control

of an area health service. [Assented to 6 July 1988]

Area Health Services (Visiting Practitioners) Amendment 1988

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Area Health Services (Visiting

Practitioners) Amendment Act 1988.

Commencement

2. This Act commences when the Public Hospitals (Visiting

Practitioners) Amendment Act 1988 commences.

Amendment of Area Health Services Act 1986 No. 50

3. The Area Health Services Act 1986 is amended by omitting section

33 and by inserting instead the following section:

Standard contracts of service

(1) Where a provision of this Act, or of a regulation or by-law made under this Act before or after the commencement of the Area Health Services (Visiting Practitioners) Amendment Act 1988, is inconsistent with any of the rights and obligations under an agreement between—

33.

(a) an area health service; and
(b) a visiting practitioner,

being an agreement relating to the performance of work by the visiting practitioner at a hospital under the control of the area health service (whether or not the agreement also relates to other matters), the provision shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, have no force or effect in relation to the visiting practitioner.

(2) In this section, a reference to an agreement includes a reference to a service contract within the meaning of Part 5c of the Public Hospitals Act 1929.