Health Services (Amalgamation of Area Health Services) Order 2004 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Health Services (Amalgamation of Area

Health Services) Order 2004

under the

Health Services Act 1997

MARIE BASHIR, Governor I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 20 (1) of the Health Services Act 1997, make the following Order.

Dated, this 20th day of October 2004.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

MORRIS IEMMA, M.P.,

Minister for Health

Explanatory note

The object of this Order is to amalgamate the area health services listed in Schedule 1 to the Health Services Act 1997. The area health services listed in Column 2 are amalgamated into the area health services listed in Column 1.

Column 1	Column 2
Amalgamated area health service	Old area health services
Greater Southern Area Health Service	Greater Murray Area Health Service Southern Area Health Service
Greater Western Area Health Service	Far West Area Health Service Macquarie Area Health Service Mid Western Area Health Service
Hunter and New England Area Health	Hunter Area Health Service
Service	New England Area Health Service
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Column 1	Column 2
Amalgamated area health service	Old area health services
North Coast Area Health Service	Mid North Coast Area Health Service Northern Rivers Area Health Service
Northern Sydney and Central Coast Area	Central Coast Area Health Service
Health Service	Northern Sydney Area Health Service
South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area	Illawarra Area Health Service
Health Service	South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney South West Area Health Service	Central Sydney Area Health Service South Western Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney West Area Health Service	Wentworth Area Health Service Western Sydney Area Health Service

This Order is made under section 20 (1) of the Health Services Act 1997.

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Health Services (Amalgamation of Area Health Services)

Order 2004

under the

Health Services Act 1997

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Health Services (Amalgamation of Area Health
Services) Order 2004.

2      Commencement

This Order commences on 1 January 2005.

3      Amalgamation of area health services

The area health services listed below in Column 2 are amalgamated to form the area health services listed opposite in Column 1:

Column 1	Column 2
Amalgamated area health
service	Old area health services
Greater Southern Area Health	Greater Murray Area Health Service
Service	Southern Area Health Service
Greater Western Area Health Service	Far West Area Health Service Macquarie Area Health Service Mid Western Area Health Service
Hunter and New England Area	Hunter Area Health Service
Health Service	New England Area Health Service
North Coast Area Health Service	Mid North Coast Area Health Service Northern Rivers Area Health Service
Northern Sydney and Central Coast	Central Coast Area Health Service
Area Health Service	Northern Sydney Area Health Service
South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra	Illawarra Area Health Service
Area Health Service	South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service

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Column 1	Column 2
Amalgamated area health
service	Old area health services
Sydney South West Area Health	Central Sydney Area Health Service
Service	South Western Sydney Area Health Service
Sydney West Area Health Service	Wentworth Area Health Service Western Sydney Area Health Service

4 Amendment of Health Services Act 1997

The Health Services Act 1997 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 4)

Schedule 1 Names and areas of area health services

Omit Columns 1, 2 and 3. Insert instead:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of service	Description of local	Description of area
government area or city	other than local government area
Greater Southern Area	Albury
Health Service	Bega Valley Berrigan Bland Bombala Boorowa Carrathool Conargo Coolamon Cooma-Monaro Cootamundra Corowa Deniliquin Eastern Capital City Regional Eurobodalla Greater Argyle Greater Hume Greater Queanbeyan Griffith Gundagai Harden Hay Jerilderie Junee Leeton Lockhart

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Schedule 1 Amendment

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of service	Description of local	Description of area
government area or city	other than local government area
Murray Murrumbidgee Narrandera Snowy River Temora Tumbarumba Tumut Upper Lachlan Urana Wagga Wagga Wakool Yass Valley Young
Greater Western Area	Balranald	Unincorporated area
Health Service	Bathurst Regional Blayney Bogan Bourke Brewarrina Broken Hill Cabonne Central Darling Cobar Coolah Coonabarabran Coonamble Cowra Dubbo Forbes Gilgandra Lachlan Mid-Western Regional Narromine Oberon

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Amendment Schedule 1

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of service	Description of local	Description of area
government area or city	other than local government area
Orange Parkes Walgett
Warren Weddin Wellington
Wentworth
Hunter and New England	Armidale Dumaresq
Area Health Service	Cessnock Dungog Glen Innes Severn Gloucester Great Lakes Greater Taree Gunnedah Guyra Gwydir Inverell Lake Macquarie Liverpool Plains Maitland Moree Plains Muswellbrook Narrabri Newcastle Port Stephens Singleton Tamworth Regional Tenterfield Upper Hunter Uralla Walcha

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Schedule 1 Amendment

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of service	Description of local	Description of area
government area or city	other than local government area
North Coast Area Health	Ballina
Service	Bellingen Byron Clarence Valley Coffs Harbour Hastings Kempsey Kyogle Lismore Nambucca Richmond Valley Tweed
Northern Sydney and	Gosford
Central Coast Area	Hornsby
Health Service	Hunters Hill Ku-ring-gai Lane Cove Manly
Mosman North Sydney Pittwater Ryde Warringah Willoughby Wyong
South Eastern Sydney and	Botany Bay	Lord Howe Island
Illawarra Area Health	Hurstville
Service	Kiama Kogarah Randwick Rockdale Shellharbour Shoalhaven Sutherland

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Amendment Schedule 1

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of service	Description of local	Description of area
government area or city	other than local government area
Sydney (part) Waverley Woollahra Wollongong
Sydney South West Area	Ashfield
Health Service	Bankstown Burwood Camden Campbelltown Canada Bay Canterbury Fairfield Leichhardt Liverpool Marrickville Strathfield Sydney (part) Wingecarribee Wollondilly
Sydney West Area Health	Auburn
service	Baulkham Hills Blacktown Blue Mountains Hawkesbury Holroyd Lithgow Parramatta Penrith

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