134Purchasing policies

134 Purchasing policies (1) HPV may prepare, make, amend and revoke instruments, to be known as "purchasing policies", with respect to policies and practices (including probity) relating to the supply of goods and services to public hospitals and the management and disposal of goods by public hospitals. (2) A purchasing policy— (a) may be of general or limited application; (b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; (c) may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or class of persons; (d) may leave anything to be approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or class of persons; (e) may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any person whether— (i) wholly or partially or as amended by the policy; or (ii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the policy is made or at any time before then; or (iii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time; (f) may provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of public hospitals or classes of public hospitals from any of the provisions of the policy, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified. (3) A public hospital must comply with each purchasing policy to the extent that it applies to the public hospital. S. 134A inserted by No. 18/2001 s. 8, amended by No. 42/2005 s. 13.