12Visiting practitioner appointments

12 Visiting practitioner appointments

12 Visiting practitioner appointments

(1) This clause applies to the appointment by an existing area health service of a visiting practitioner under Chapter 8 of the Act that relates to the provision of services or exercise of clinical privileges at a health facility controlled, immediately before 1 January 2011, by the existing area health service.

(2) The rights, obligations and other liabilities under an appointment to which this clause applies that is in force immediately before 1 January 2011, are on that day:

(a) transferred to the proposed local health network that on that day controls the health facilities to which the appointment relates, or

(b) if the appointment relates to health facilities controlled on that day by different local health networks, transferred to each of those proposed local health networks only to the extent that the appointment relates to the health facilities controlled by the network.