AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

CANBERRA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ORDINANCE (No 2) 1967

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 31 of 1967

	The purpose of the amending Ordinance is to repeal the Canberra Community Hospital Ordinance 1967 (No. 28 of 1967) and to provide for the re-constitution of the Canberra Community Hospital Board as the Canberra Community Hospital Management Board.  Ordinance No. 28 of 1967, which had provided for a Management Board of five members all nominated by the Minister for Health, is the subject of an adjourned Motion of Disallowance in the Senate.

	The Management Board provided for under the present amendment will consist of five members of whom two will be elected by the A.C.T. Advisory Council from amongst the elected members of that Council.  The remaining three members will be appointed by the Minister for Health.  The two members from the Advisory Council will hold office, at the pleasure of the Council, until their term of office on the Council expires.  The appointed members will hold office for three years.  Two members of the Management Board will be appointed by the Minister as Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively.

	Various consequential provisions are incorporated in the amendment to cover the filling of casual vacancies, the frequency of meetings and the disclosure by a member of any interest held by him in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Management Board.

	It is provided that the amendment will come into effect on a date to be notified by the Minister in the Gazette and that the present Canberra Community Hospital Board will continue in office until that date.