This legislation has been repealed.
8—Election of board of management
(1) Whenever the total
amount of the annual contributions for any year ending on the second Friday in
December, together with interest at the rate of ten dollars per centum per
annum on all sums previously paid by all life contributors then living, shall
amount to one-sixth of the average annual expenditure of any public hospital
for the three preceding years, the Governor, upon the receipt of a memorial
signed by not less than one-half of the contributors to the hospital, praying
that they may be allowed to elect one-third of the members of the board of
management, may cause the substance or prayer of the memorial to be published
in the Government Gazette.
(2) If no counter
memorial, signed by an equal number of contributors, is forwarded to the Chief
Secretary within one month after the date of the said publication, the
Governor may, by proclamation—
(a)
declare that the then present board shall, on a day to be therein mentioned,
cease to be the board of management for the public hospital; and
(b)
declare that a new board shall be appointed; and
(c) fix
the number of members of which the board shall consist, and the number of
members necessary to be present at any meeting to form a quorum.
(3) At any time after
the publication of any such proclamation any ten or more contributors, who
have signed the said memorial, may convene a public meeting of the
contributors to the hospital, by advertisement in some newspaper published in
the neighbourhood of the hospital, or if there is no newspaper published in
the neighbourhood, then in some newspaper circulating therein, at least one
week previous to the meeting being held, for the purpose of electing one-third
of the members of the board of management of the hospital, or in case the
number of the members of the board is not divisible by three, then one-third
of the number nearest to the number which is so divisible.
(4) After any such
election the names of the members so elected shall be forwarded to the Chief
Secretary with a request that the Governor will appoint the persons so elected
to be members of the board. Thereupon the Governor shall appoint the said
persons, and, shall also appoint such other persons as may be necessary to
complete the number of the board as fixed by the said proclamation.
(5) If the
contributors fail or neglect to elect any such members, and to forward the
names to the Chief Secretary at least one week before the time at which the
then present board of management is to retire from office, as mentioned in the
proclamation, the Governor shall appoint the whole of the members of the
board, and shall also specify which of the members shall be considered elected
members for the purposes of retirement as hereinafter mentioned.