6Information technology services and pathology cluster services

6 Information technology services and pathology cluster services

6 Information technology services and pathology cluster services

(1) All interests of an existing area health service in land or other property that relate exclusively to information technology services or pathology cluster services are transferred on 1 January 2011 to the applicable health reform transitional organisation for the area health service.

(2) If, at the time property is transferred under this clause, the property is subject to a lease or licence between the existing area health service and any other person or body, the lease or licence is, on the transfer, taken to be between the applicable health reform transitional organisation and that other person or body on the same terms.

(3) On the transfer to a health reform transitional organisation under this clause of an interest in land or other property that relates exclusively to information technology services or pathology cluster services, the following are also transferred if they relate exclusively to those services:

(a) any agreement to which an existing area health service is a party immediately before 1 January 2011 is transferred on the same terms so that the health reform transitional organisation becomes a party to the agreement instead of the existing area health service,

(b) any statutory authorisation that is held by, or applies to, an existing area health service immediately before 1 January 2011 is transferred so that it is held by, or applies to, the health reform transitional organisation,

(c) any asset, right or liability of an existing area health service that is not otherwise transferred under this clause is transferred to the health reform transitional organisation.

(4) In this clause:

information technology services means all information technology and associated equipment other than the following:

(a) personal computers (including laptops) and printers,

(b) equipment used for the management and control of medical imaging,

(c) laboratory and analytical instruments,

(d) medical monitoring equipment.

pathology cluster service means the following services:

(a) South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Cluster also known as South Eastern Area Laboratory Services (incorporating the former business unit known as Illawarra Area Health Pathology Service or IPath),