Victorian Current Acts

EPWORTH FOUNDATION ACT 1980 - SECT 4

The Foundation may carry out all or any of the following objects—

        (a)     to promote and fund medical and health care research of any kind in Australia that is, or is likely to be, of benefit to the community;

        (b)     to promote, advance and provide financial assistance for medical and other health care education in Australia including, without limitation, the education and training in Australia of medical students, nurses, medical practitioners and others engaged in the provision of medical and other health care services;

        (c)     to provide financial or other assistance for the purpose of enabling persons residing in Australia to obtain medical or other health care services in Australia which they could not otherwise afford;

        (d)     to conduct and maintain a hospital or hospitals in Australia;

        (e)     in relation to a hospital or hospitals conducted and maintained under paragraph (d), to promote the treatment of each patient in a manner that accords the respect due to a person before God, according to the beliefs of the Uniting Church;

        (f)     to provide medical and other health care services of any kind in Australia;

        (g)     to provide funds or otherwise assist another entity which does not seek to secure pecuniary profit for its individual members to provide medical or other health care services of any kind in Australia;

        (h)     to promote and provide funds in Australia for charitable purposes located in Australia and being undertaken solely in Australia including, without limitation, providing funds to an entity or trust whose purposes or objects are wholly charitable and wholly carried out within Australia.

S. 5 substituted by No. 97/1997
s. 9.