Public Hospitals Act 1929 Order amending Act (1994-268) [GG No 87 of 30.6.1994] (NSW)

1994—No. 268

PUBLIC HOSPITALS ACT 1929—ORDER

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 87 of 30 June 1994]

By deputation from
His Excellency
A. M. Gleeson the Governor:

I, Rear Admiral PETER ROSS SINCLAIR, A.C., Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of sections 4 (2) and 29J of the Public Hospitals Act 1929, do, by this my Order, with effect on and from 1 July 1994:

(a)	amend the Fifth Schedule to that Act by altering the name “Prison Medical Service.” to “Corrections Health Service.”; and
(b)	amend the Fifth Schedule to that Act by omitting the name “Corrections Health Service.”; and
(c)	amend the Second Schedule to that Act by inserting in the First Column of that Schedule, in alphabetical order, the name “Corrections Health Service.”; and
(d)	determine that all contracts entered into by the Minister for Health on behalf of the Prison Medical Service are taken to be contracts of the Corrections Health Service.

Signed at Sydney, this twenty ninth day of June 1994.

By His Excellency’s Command,

RON PHILLIPS
Minister for Health.

1994—No. 268

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Order is to rename the Prison Medical Service as the Corrections Health Service and to transfer it from the Fifth Schedule (Hospitals conducted by the Minister) to the Public Hospitals Act 1929 to the Second Schedule (Incorporated Hospitals) to that Act.

The Order also provides for the assumption by the Corrections Health Service of

legal responsibility for contracts made by the Minister for Health on behalf of the Prison

Medical Service.