Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2002 (WA)

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act

2002

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act

2002

CONTENTS

1.	Short title	1
2.	Commencement	2
3.	The Act amended	2
4.	Section 7 amended	2
5.	Section 7A amended	2
6.	Section 7B amended	3
7.	Section 18 amended	3
8.	Validation	3

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment

Act 2002

No. 17 of 2002

An Act to amend the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 and for related purposes.

[Assented to 8 July 2002]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.             Short title

This Act may be cited as the Hospitals and Health Services

Amendment Act 2002.

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2002

s. 2

2.             Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives

the Royal Assent.

3.             The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Hospitals and Health

Services Act 1927*.

[* Reprinted as at 15 October 1999.

For subsequent amendments see 2001 Index to Legislation of

Western Australia, Table 1, p. 168.]

4.             Section 7 amended

Section 7(2) is amended by deleting “powers and duties” and

inserting instead —

“ duties, powers and functions ”.

5.             Section 7A amended

(1)

Section 7A(1)(ba) is deleted and the following paragraphs are

inserted instead —

“

(ba)

to provide pathology services and related medical

scientific services for the purpose of diagnosing

and managing disease or protecting public health;

(bb)

to provide forensic biology services and

forensic pathology services, including obtaining

DNA profiles for forensic or other purposes;

(bc)

to conduct training and instruction in, and

research into, the services referred to in

paragraphs (ba) and (bb);

”.

(2)

Section 7A(2) is amended by deleting “of the duties” and

inserting instead —

“ or exercise of the duties, powers ”.

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2002

s. 6

6.             Section 7B amended

Section 7B(1) is amended by deleting “carrying out any duty”

and inserting instead —

“ the performance or exercise of any duty, power ”.

7.             Section 18 amended

Section 18(1)(b) is amended by deleting “such other duties” and

inserting instead —

“ or exercise such other duties, powers ”.

8.             Validation

(1)	In this section —
“agency” has the same meaning as it has in the Hospitals and

Health Services Act 1927.

(2)

Anything done or purporting to have been done by an agency

for the purposes referred to in section 7B(1) of the Hospitals

and Health Services Act 1927 is, and is taken always to have

been, as valid and effective as it would have been if the

amendments to that Act in sections 5 and 6 had at all relevant

times been made.