Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act 1913
Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act 1913
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Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act 1913
Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act 1913
Public Act |
1913 No 56 |
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Date of assent |
15 December 1913 |
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Contents
AN ACT to amend the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act, 1913, and shall form part of and be read together with the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Section 19 of principal Act amended.
Section nineteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection one, and by adding to subsection two the following paragraph:—
“(g.)
A person who is not an elector of some contributory local authority within the hospital district.”
3 Section 31 of principal Act amended.
Section thirty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection four, and substituting the following:—
“(4.)
A quorum shall consist of half of the whole number of the members of the Board (irrespective of any extraordinary vacancies) when that number is even, and a majority of such members when the number is odd.”
4 Section 34 of principal Act amended.
Section thirty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “institution,”
the words “or of the Secretary of a Board.”
5 Section 36 of principal Act amended.
Section thirty-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “at a meeting,”
and substituting the words “pursuant to a resolution.”
6 Section 38 of principal Act amended.
Section thirty-eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “thinks sufficient,”
and substituting the word “decides.”
7 Advances to Boards on account of subsidies.
Section forty of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection one, and substituting the following:—
“(1.)
The Minister of Finance may from time to time, without further appropriation than this Act, advance out of the Consolidated Fund to a Board, in anticipation of its estimated subsidy in any year, any sums not exceeding two-thirds of such estimated subsidy.”
8 Estimates of expenditure and income to be submitted to contributory local authorities before apportionment made.
Before making an apportionment of its estimated expenditure among the contributory local authorities, pursuant to section forty-one of the principal Act, the Board shall give to each contributory local authority not less than fourteen days’ notice in writing of—
(a.)
The estimate of its expenditure for the year, made pursuant to subsection two of the said section;
(b.)
The estimate of its income for the same year, made pursuant to subsection four of the said section: and
(c.)
The proposed apportionment of the estimated expenditure among the contributory local authorities, pursuant to subsection six of the said section.
9 Loan-moneys to be paid to separate account and expended solely for purposes of loan.
All moneys borrowed by a Board pursuant to subsection one of section fifty-seven of the principal Act shall, as and when raised, be paid into a separate account at the bank at which the moneys of the Board are kept, and shall not be drawn out of such account or expended except for the special purpose for which they were borrowed:
Provided that any surplus moneys remaining after the completion of the work for which the said moneys were borrowed may be expended for any other purpose for which the Board is authorized to borrow money as aforesaid, or may be applied towards the reduction of the loan.
10 Section 60 of principal Act amended.
Section sixty of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (g), the following paragraph:—
“(gg.)
Making grants or subsidies to such Medical or Nursing Associations, Benevolent Institutions, or private philanthropic associations as the Minister approves.”
11 Section 68 of principal Act amended.
(1.)
Section sixty-eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one all words after the word “regulations,”
and substituting therefor the following:—
“(a.)
Of all contracts entered into during the financial year;
“(b.)
Of all moneys received or expended during the financial year;
“(c.)
Of the income and expenditure of the Board for the financial year; and
“(d.)
Of all assets and liabilities of the Board at the end of the financial year.”
(2.)
The said section sixty-eight is hereby further amended by adding, at the end of subsection four, the words “and to every contributory local authority.”
12 Building fund.
A Board may in every or any year set aside out of its revenue such sums as the Minister approves to form a fund for the erection of any building by the Board, or the repair, enlargement, or reinstatement of any buildings or other property of the Board; and may from time to time invest any moneys so set aside in such securities as may be approved by the Minister, and shall pay the proceeds of such investment into the said fund.
13 Board to refund moneys expended by constable in rendering aid to indigent sick persons.
(1.)
Moneys expended by a constable or a local authority in rendering aid in cases of emergency to indigent sick persons or in the removal and burial of deceased destitute persons shall be refunded by the Board of the hospital district in which such service was rendered.
(2.)
All moneys so refunded shall for the purposes of section seventy-two of the principal Act be deemed to be relief received by the person in respect of whom the service was rendered, or by the representatives of that person, as the case may be.
14 Section 72 of principal Act amended.
Section seventy-two of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:—
“(8.)
In the event of any dispute arising between two Boards in regard to liability for relief granted under this section, the same shall be referred to the Minister, whose decision shall be final, and shall be binding on the said Boards.”
15 Section 83 of principal Act amended.
Section eighty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection one, the following subsection:—
“(1a.)
On the like recommendation and with the consent of the local authority of any district, the Governor may by Order in Council, upon such terms and conditions as he thinks fit, declare that, for such of the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1908, as are mentioned in the Order, the Board of the hospital district within which the district of the local authority is situated shall be deemed to be the local authority of that district.”
16 Marsden-Kaipara Hospital District abolished.
(1.)
The First Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the second paragraph (relating to the Marsden-Kaipara Hospital District). The Marsden-Kaipara Hospital and Charitable Aid Board is hereby abolished as from the date of the commencement of this section, and the property and liabilities thereof shall on that date become the property and liabilities of the Boards hereinafter constituted, in such proportions as the Governor in Council determines.
Whangarei Hospital District and Kaipara Hospital District constituted.
(2.)
The Whangarei County is hereby constituted a hospital district, to be called “the Whangarei Hospital District,”
and the Hobson and Otamatea Counties are hereby constituted a hospital district, to be called “the Kaipara Hospital District.”
(3.)
The Boards of the said hospital districts shall consist respectively of such number of representatives of the contributory districts within the said hospital districts as the Governor by Order in Council from time to time determines.
(4.)
The first election of members of the said Boards shall be held on such day as the Governor by Order in Council appoints; and by the same or any subsequent Order in Council the Governor may make all such provisions as are deemed necessary for the purposes of that election.
(5.)
The Governor may by Order in Council determine what part of the property and liabilities of the Marsden-Kaipara Hospital and Charitable Aid Board shall become the property and liabilities of the Whangarei Hospital and Charitable Aid Board and of the Kaipara Hospital and Charitable Aid Board respectively, and all property allotted by that Order to the said Boards respectively shall be deemed to have been vested in those Boards as from the date of the commencement of this section:
Provided that the Whangarei Hospital and the Whangarei Old People’s Home shall be vested in the Whangarei Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and the Northern Wairoa Hospital shall be vested in the Kaipara Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.
(6.)
This section shall commence on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
17 Eighth Schedule to principal Act amended.
The Eighth Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (8) thereof the words “seven and sixteen years,”
and substituting the words “six and twenty-one years.”
18 Penalty for failure of officer of Board to perform statutory duties.
If the Secretary, Treasurer, or any other officer of a Board fails to do any act he is required to do by the principal Act or any regulation thereunder, or to do such act within the time therein limited, or if any person having the custody or control of any of the books or papers relating to the Board’s affairs fails to produce the same when so required by the Inspector-General or any officer appointed by the Inspector-General in that behalf, he shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, recoverable summarily on the information of any person appointed in that behalf, either generally or in any particular case, by the Minister.
19 Regulations for detention of persons suffering from infectious or contagious diseases.
(1.)
The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations for the reception into any institution under the principal Act of persons suffering from any contagious or infectious disease, and for the detention of such persons in such institution until they may be discharged without danger to the public health.
(2.)
Any person in respect of whom an order under this section is made may at any time while such order remains in force appeal therefrom to a Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in the locality, and the Magistrate shall have jurisdiction to hear such appeal and to make such order in the matter as he thinks fit. An order of a Magistrate under this subsection shall be final and conclusive.
(3.)
Regulations under this section may be made to apply generally or to any specified institution or institutions.
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