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Health Services Act 1988
170New boards of certain public hospitals
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170 New boards of certain public hospitals
(1) This section applies to a public hospital that, immediately before the commencement of this section, was not included in Table A of the Fifth Schedule to the **Hospitals and Charities Act 1958**.
(2) On the expiration of one month after the commencement of this section—
(a) the members of the board of a public hospital to which this section applies cease to hold office; and
(b) section 33 applies in relation to the appointment or election of members of a new board as if, on that expiration, the public hospital had been added to Schedule 1.
S. 170(3) inserted by No. 31/1990 s. 5.
(3) This section does not apply to The Tweddle Baby Hospital.