Nurses Act Amendment Act 1970 (WA)

1970.] Nurses. [No. 9.

NURSES.

No. 9 of 1970.

AN ACT to amend the Nurses Act, 1968.

[Assented to 29th April, 1970.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Nurses Act and citation.

Amendment Act, 1970.

(2) In this Act the Nurses Act, 1968, is referred

to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Nurses Act, 1968-1970.

2. Paragraph (m) of section 15 of the principal	Amendment
to s. 15.

Act is amended by substituting for the passage	(Objects, functions
"industrial agreement in force under the Industrial	and powers of Board.)
Arbitration Act, 1912," in lines two, three and four the passage "agreement in force under the Public Service Arbitration Act, 1966,".

No. 9.] Nurses. [1970.

Amendment

to s. 17.	3. Section 17 of the principal Act is amended
(Superan-

nuation of	(a)	by adding after the section number "17."
officers and
employees of
Board.)	the subsection designation "(1)"; and
(b)	by adding a subsection as follows

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section and the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act, 1938, the Board shall, on and from the date of the coming into operation of this Act, be deemed to be such a Crown instrumentality as is referred to in the second paragraph of the definition of "Department" in section 6 of that Act. .