EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

Canberra Community Hospital Ordinance 1967

AMENDMENT OF CANBERRA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

ORDINANCE 1938 – 1966.

No. 28 of 1967

	The above Ordinance has been amended to provide for the re-constitution of the Canberra Community Hospital Board as the Canberra Community Hospital Management Board consisting of a Chairman and four other members, all of whom will be appointed by the Minister for Health for a period of three years.

	The amendment incorporates various consequential provisions, such as the filling of casual vacancies, the frequency of meetings, election of a Deputy Chairman by the members of the Board and disclosure by a member of any interest in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Board.  The amendment is expressed to come into effect on 1st October, 1967.