Queensland Numbered Acts

MATER PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES ACT 2008 No. 60 - SECT 17

After section 165--

insert--

In this part--

existing licences means the licences held by the Mater for the Mater private hospitals immediately before the commencement of this part.

Mater private hospitals means the following hospitals located at South Brisbane--

* Mater Misericordiae Private Hospital

* Mater Misericordiae Women's and Children's Private Health Service.

Mater public hospitals means the following hospitals located at South Brisbane--

* Mater Adult Hospital

* Mater Children's Hospital

* Mater Mothers' Hospital.

the Mater means Mater Misericordiae Health Services Brisbane Ltd (ACN 096 708 922).

To remove any doubt, it is declared that the Mater public hospitals are private hospitals for this Act.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the chief health officer must, under this part, issue a licence (the new licence) to the Mater for the Mater private hospitals and the Mater public hospitals.

(2) To allow the chief health officer to issue the new licence, the Mater must, within 30 days after the commencement of this section, give the chief health officer an application for a licence, in the approved form mentioned in section 42(b), relating to the Mater private and public hospitals.

(3) Sections 43 to 46 do not apply to the application.

(4) The chief health officer must issue the new licence within 30 days after receiving the application.

(5) The new licence replaces the existing licences and is taken to have been issued under part 6.

(6) Without limiting subsection (5)--

(a) part 6, divisions 4 to 7 apply to the new licence; and

(b) for applying section 48, a reference in section 48(6), definition prescribed change, paragraph (a) to an application under this Act includes a reference to the application mentioned in subsection (2); and

(c) section 48(1)(e) is not limited by anything in the existing agreement mentioned in the Mater Public Health Services Act 2008, section 9.'.