Queensland Numbered Acts

HEALTH AND HOSPITALS NETWORK AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2012 No. 9 - SECT 17

Part 2, division 3—

omit, insert—

'(1) A Hospital and Health Service's board must appoint a health service chief executive to manage the Service.

'(2) The appointment is not effective until it is approved by the Minister.

'(3) The person appointed as health service chief executive must also be appointed as a health executive.

'(4) In managing the Service, the health service chief executive is subject to direction by the Service's board.

'(1) A health service chief executive may delegate the health service chief executive's functions under this Act to an appropriately qualified—

(a) employee of the Hospital and Health Service; or

(b) health service employee employed in the department and working for the Service.

'(2) However, the health service chief executive must not delegate the authorisation to disclose confidential information in the public interest under section 160.

'(3) In this section—

appropriately qualified includes having the qualifications, experience or standing appropriate to the exercise of the power.

Example of standing—

the person's classification level or how senior the person is in the Service'.