Health Services Amendment (First SCHN Board) Regulation 2011 (NSW)

2011 No 320

New South Wales

Health Services Amendment (First

SCHN Board) Regulation 2011

under the

Health Services Act 1997

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Health Services Act 1997.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to enable the Minister for Health to appoint more than 13 members (but no more than 20 members) to the first board of The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (Randwick and Westmead) (incorporating The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children) (the SCHN) on its reconstitution as a specialty network governed health corporation following the commencement of the Health Services Amendment (Local Health Districts and Boards) Act 2011. The governing council of the SCHN currently has 20 members.

This Regulation is made under the Health Services Act 1997, including section 140 (the general regulation-making power) and clauses 1 and 91 of Schedule 7.

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Clause 1	Health Services Amendment (First SCHN Board) Regulation 2011

Health Services Amendment (First SCHN Board)

Regulation 2011

under the

Health Services Act 1997

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Health Services Amendment (First SCHN Board)
Regulation 2011.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 July 2011 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

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Health Services Amendment (First SCHN Board) Regulation 2011

Amendment of Health Services Regulation 2008	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment of Health Services Regulation 2008

Clause 19

Insert after clause 18:

19      Transitional provision relating to appointment of first board of SCHN

(1) The Minister may appoint more than 13 members (but no more
than 20 members) to the first board of the SCHN.

Note. Section 52F of the Act (which applies Division 2 of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Act to the boards of specialty network governed health corporations) operates to provide for the boards of such corporations to be constituted by no more than 13 members. However, clause 91 of Schedule 7 to the Act enables the regulations to make different transitional provision for the board of the SCHN (including in relation to the maximum number of members of its board).

(2)	If more than 13 members are appointed to the first board of the SCHN, each additional member appointed must be an existing council member of the SCHN.
(3)	Nothing in this clause prevents existing council members of the SCHN being appointed to any or all of the other positions on the first board of the SCHN.
(4)	In this clause, existing council member of the SCHN and SCHN have the same meanings as they have in clause 91 of Schedule 7 to the Act.