Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1948 (WA)

No. 9.] Hospitals. [1948.

HOSPITALS.

12 : GEo. VI., No. IX.

No. 9 of 1948,

AN ACT to amend section Two of the Hospitals Act,

1927.

[Assented to 11th November, 1948.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

Short title.	1. This Act may be cited as the Hospitals Act Amend- meld Act, 1948, and shall be read as one with the Hospitals Act, 1927 (Act No. 23 of 1927), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.
Citation.	2. The principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Hospitals Act, 1927-1948.
Amendment of

3. Section two of the principal Act is amended as

follows :-

(a) By deleting the word "philanthropic" in the

second last line thereof; and

(b) by adding after the word "subsidy" in the last line thereof the words "except such an insti- tution as aforesaid as the Minister, acting on the written recommendation of the Commis- sioner of Public Health and with the consent of the institution, shall, in his absolute dis- cretion and by notice published in the Gazette, declare to be a public hospital under and for the purposes of this Act."