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Sch 3ADissolution of Health Advisory Councils
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Schedule 3A—Dissolution of Health Advisory Councils
1—Preliminary
In this Schedule—
dissolved HAC means a HAC that has been dissolved under clause 2.
2—Dissolution of Health Advisory Councils
The following Health Advisory Councils established by Ministerial notice under section 15(1) are dissolved:
(a) the Women's and Children's Health Network Health Advisory Council Incorporated;
(b) the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network Health Advisory Council Incorporated;
(c) the Central Adelaide Local Health Network Health Advisory Council Incorporated;
(d) the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network Health Advisory Council Incorporated.
3—HAC members
A member of a dissolved HAC holding office immediately before the commencement of this clause ceases to hold office on that commencement.
4—Property to be transferred
(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette—
(a) transfer the assets, rights and liabilities of a dissolved HAC (either as a whole or in separate parcels specified in the notice)—
(ii) to another Health Advisory Council; or
(iv) to SA Ambulance Service Inc; or
(v) to the Crown, or to another agent or instrumentality of the Crown; or
(vi) with the agreement of the person or body—to a person or body that is not an agent or instrumentality of the Crown; and
(b) make other provisions in relation to the property of the dissolved HAC that in the opinion of the Minister are necessary or expedient in the circumstances.
(2) A Ministerial notice made under subclause (1) takes effect from a date specified in the notice (which may be earlier than the date of the notice's publication even though the HAC from which the assets are transferred was dissolved prior to the publication of the Ministerial notice).
(3) The Minister may, by further notice in the Gazette, transfer any asset, right or liability acquired or assumed by the Minister under subclause (1) to another person or body if that other person or body consents to the transfer.
5—General provisions
(1) Nothing done under this Schedule—
(c) constitutes a breach of a duty of confidence (whether arising by contract, in equity or by custom or in any other way); or
(e) —
(i) terminates an agreement or obligation; or
(ii) fulfils any condition that allows a person to terminate an agreement or obligation; or
(iii) gives rise to, or allows any person to exercise, any other right or remedy; or
(f) releases a surety or other obligee wholly or in part from an obligation.
(2) The Registrar‑General or another authority required or authorised under a law of the State to register or record transactions affecting assets, rights or liabilities, or documents relating to such transactions, must, on application under this subclause, register or record in an appropriate manner a transfer and vesting under this Schedule.
(3) The Governor may, by regulation, make any other provision of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act.
(4) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare that a reference in an Act, instrument, contract, agreement or other document to a dissolved HAC will have effect as if it were a reference to another person or body specified by the Minister in the notice.