Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006 (WA)

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act

2006

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act

2006

CONTENTS

1.	Short title	2
2.	Commencement	2
3.	The Act amended	2
4.	Section 26K replaced	2

26K. Offences 2

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services

Amendment Act 2006

No. 45 of 2006

An Act to amend the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927.

[Assented to 4 October 2006]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006

s. 1

1.             Short title

This is the Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006.

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 Western Australian

Legislation Information Tables for 2004, Table 1, p. 208 and

Act No. 42 of 2004.]

4.             Section 26K replaced

Section 26K is repealed and the following section is inserted

instead —

“

26K.	Offences
A person must not —

(a) conduct or manage, or by any means hold out that the person conducts or manages, a private hospital unless —

(i)      the person is the holder of a licence; or

(ii)      the private hospital is a nursing home and the conduct or management of the nursing home is a residential care

service, or part of a residential care

service, that is certified under Part 2.6

of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the

Commonwealth;

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006

s. 4

(b) conduct or manage, or by any means hold out that that person conducts or manages, a private hospital unless —

(i)      the premises are premises that are approved as a private hospital under this Part; or

(ii) the premises are a nursing home and the conduct or management of the nursing home is a residential care service, or part of a residential care service, that is certified under Part 2.6 of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;

or

(c) build, alter or extend a private hospital unless —

(i)      the Commissioner has approved of the building, alteration or extension, as the case requires; or

(ii)      the private hospital is a nursing home and the conduct or management of the nursing home is a residential care

service, or part of a residential care

service, that is certified under Part 2.6

of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the

Commonwealth.

Penalty: $5 000.

”.