Public Institutions Inspection Act of 1866 No 30a (NSW)

No. XIX.

An Act to make provision for the Inspection of

Hospitals and other Institutions aided from

the Public Revenue. [22nd December, 1866.]

other Public Institutions to make provision for ensuring the proper	WHEREAS it is necessary in certain cases in which sums of money are granted by Parliament in aid of Hospitals and
application of such grants to the purposes intended Be it therefore 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 :—

1. I t shall be lawful for the Governor with the advice of the

Executive Council to appoint an Inspector of Public Charities the
duty of which officer under the instructions of the Colonial Secretary
for the time being shall be to visit and inspect all hospitals infirma­
ries orphan schools and charitable institutions which are wholly or in part supported by grants from the public revenue and to conduct inquiries and examinations in respect to the management of the same and also in special cases to appoint with such Inspector any other person or persons to aid in the performance of the said duties Provided that all such visits inspections inquiries and examinations shall have reference and be directed solely to the proper appropriation
of the public grants in aid and the efficient conduct of such institu­
tions.
2. I t shall be lawful for the Colonial Secretary to perform any

of the duties and exercise any of the powers of visitation inspection

and inquiry by this Act conferred upon the Inspector of Public
Charities.

3. Every public institution that receives aid from the public revenue shall at all times submit to the inspection and examination

of the Government as provided for in this Act or by any special

Board or Commission of Inquiry duly appointed And any director trustee superintendent master or officer of such institution or any other person resisting the inspection and inquiry so authorized by wilfully refusing admission to premises withholding books or accounts when applied for or by any other act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding for any one offence the sum of ten pounds.

4. The Inspector of Public Charities or other person perform­ ing the duties of inspection as prescribed by the provisions of this Act shall before the thirty-first day of January in each year lay before the Governor and Executive Council a detailed report on the condition and working of the several public institutions aforesaid and copies of

all such reports shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
5. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may appoint any magistrate or other person resident in any place where a mechanics' institution school of arts public library literary
society or other similar institution is established with aid from the
public revenue to visit inspect and report upon the state and working
of such institution and the person so appointed shall as to such
institution possess all the powers of inspection and inquiry conferred
by the provisions of this Act on the Inspector of Public Charities.

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6. All penalties imposed by this Act may be recovered in a

summary way before any two or more Justices of the Peace.

7. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of

January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

8. This Act shall be styled and may be cited for all purposes

as the " Public Institutions Inspection Act of 1866."