South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

HOSPITALS ACT 1934 - SECT 16

16—Power to make regulations

        (1)         The board of management of any public hospital may, from time to time, make regulations in respect to all or any of the following matters and may make regulations revoking or amending any such regulation:

        I         For the regulation of its own proceedings, including the appointment of chairman:

        II         For fixing the number of votes of contributors in proportion to the amount of their contributions:

        III         For determining the validity of disputed elections, and for conducting elections and all matters connected therewith:

        IV         For regulating the admission of patients into the hospital on the nomination or recommendation of contributors or otherwise, and of their discharge therefrom:

        V         For the affording relief by medicine and attendance to outdoor patients:

        VI         For the moral and religious instruction of the inmates of the hospital:

        VII         For the maintenance of order, discipline, decency, and cleanliness among the inmates of the hospital:

        VIII         For prescribing the duties of the several officers of any hospital, for keeping proper records, books, accounts, and vouchers; and for providing for the annual publication of an abstract of the expenditure, and the amounts contributed, for the information of contributors, and in order to determine the number of members of the board of management to be elected at each annual election:

        IX         For regulating the study of surgery and medicine by students who may desire to avail themselves of the facilities afforded by the hospital for that purpose:

        X         For all matters affecting the general management, care, control, and superintendence of any hospital.

        (1a)         In respect of any public hospital which has no board of management but the care, management, control and supervision of which is vested in the Director-General, the Director-General may from time to time make regulations in respect to all or any of the matters set forth in subsection (1) of this section (other than those set forth in paragraphs I, II and III thereof) and may make regulations revoking or amending any such regulation.

        (2)         All regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after the making thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not then sitting within fourteen days after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament.