Public Hospitals (Disposition of Land) Amendment Act 1986 (NSW)

PUBLIC HOSPITALS (DISPOSITION OF LAND)

AMEMDMENT ACT 1986 No. 97

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.     Short title

2.      Amendment of Act No. 8, 1929

PUBLIC HOSPITALS (DISPOSITION OF LAND) AMENDMENT

ACT 1986 No. 97

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 97, 1986

An Act to amend the Public Hospitals Act 1929 with respect to the disposing and use of land by hospitals listed in the Second Schedule to that

Act, and for other purposes. [Assented to 7 October 1986.]

Public Hospitals (Disposition of Land) Amendment 1986

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the "Public Hospitals (Disposition of Land)

Amendment Act 1986".

Amendment of Act No. 8, 1929

2. The Public Hospitals Act 1929 is amended by omitting section 20 and

by inserting instead the following section:

Power in relation to property

20.     (1) A body corporate constituted by or under this Part may do

all or any of the following things:

(a)	purchase or otherwise acquire, and use, land or any other property (whether or not the land or other property is required for the purposes of the hospital);
(b)	sell, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of land or any other property;

(c) dedicate land as a public road.

(2) The body corporate shall not acquire land by purchase, lease or exchange, dispose of land by sale, lease, mortgage or otherwise or dedicate land as a public road without the approval of the Minister.

(3) The body corporate may request the Minister to give approval

to a disposition or dedication of land or a use of land, being a

disposition, dedication or use—

(a)	which is contrary to a provision of, or a trust arising under, the Crown grant of that land; or
(b)	which, if this section had not been enacted, may make the land liable to be forfeited to the Crown,

and the Minister may give that approval.

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Public Hospitals (Disposition of Land) Amendment 1986

(4) If the Minister has given an approval under this section (as in force at any time) to a disposition or dedication of land, or to a use of land, neither the disposition or dedication of the land (or its subsequent use) nor the use of the land shall—

(a) be regarded as a breach of anv provision of. or of any trust arising under, the Crown grant of that land; or

(b) make the land liable to be forfeited to the Crown.