Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1969 (WA)

1969.] Hospitals. [No. 89.

HOSPITALS.

No. 89 of 1969.

AN ACT to amend the Hospitals Act, 1927-1955.

[Assented to 17th November, 1969.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Hospitals	Short title
and citation

Act Amendment Act, 1969.

(2) In this Act the Hospitals Act, 1927-1955 is Vol. 15 of the Reprinted

referred to as the principal Act.

Acts.Approved

for reprint

I4th August,

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act 1961.

may be cited as the Hospitals Act, 1927-1969.

No. 89.] Hospitals. [1969.

Addition of

s. 18A. 2. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section 18 a section as follows—

Returns or

information. 18A. Where the Minister gives a direction

requiring the board of a public hospital to furnish to him or persons nominated by him statistical or other returns or information on matters relating to the hospital and arising there or elsewhere and he fixes a reasonable time within which the returns are or the information is to be furnished, the board shall, within that time, comply with the direction. .