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Hospitals Amendment Act (No. 2) 1975

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Short Title and commencement

Payment of Chairman

Remuneration of members of Board for attending meetings

Hospitals Amendment Act (No. 2) 1975

Public Act		1975 No 79
Date of assent		9 October 1975

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Payment of Chairman
3	Remuneration of members of Board for attending meetings
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Hospitals Act 1957

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 and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Hospitals Amendment Act (No. 2) 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Hospitals Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April 1975.

2 Payment of Chairman

Section 39(1) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2(1) of the Hospitals Amendment Act 1967) is hereby amended by repealing the proviso.

3 Remuneration of members of Board for attending meetings

(1)

The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 95, the following section:

“95a

“(1)

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, a Board may pay the following remuneration to each member, other than the Chairman, of the Board:

“(a)

For every meeting of the Board, or of a committee of the Board, attended by him as a member, a sum not exceeding $5:

“(b)

In the case of any member of the Board who is appointed to act as a Chairman of any committee of the Board, either generally or for any particular meeting, an additional sum not exceeding $3 for every meeting of that committee which he attends as Chairman.

“(2)

No person may be paid in any financial year—

“(a)

Under subsection (1)(a) of this section, sums totalling more than $260:

“(b)

Under subsection (1)(b) of this section, sums totalling more than $156.

“(3)

The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall extend, with the necessary modifications, to authorise the payment, in accordance with those subsections, by a joint committee referred to in section 56(3) of this Act, of remuneration to every member of that joint committee (including the Chairman of the committee) who is a member, but not Chairman, of a Board.

“(4)

In subsection (1) of this section the expression ‘committee of the Board’ means—

“(a)

A committee appointed under section 44 of this Act:

“(b)

A joint committee appointed under section 59(6) of this Act.”

(2)

Section 57(2) of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Health.

Hospitals Amendment Act (No. 2) 1975