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New South Wales act
This Act permits the St. Luke’s Hospital company to establish and run public and intermediate hospitals as well as private ones, and to use its existing or later-acquired property for those public/intermediate purposes even where trusts previously limited use to private hospitals. It also allows the hospital to apply to become a “separate institution” under the Public Hospitals Act 1929. The changes directly affect the hospital’s managers, trustees and trust beneficiaries by broadening permitted uses of assets and altering regulatory status.
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Direct links to the current provisions in St. Luke’s Hospital Act 1952.
2 Definition
In this Act St. Luke’s Hospital means the association of that name which was registered as a limited company under the Companies Act 1899, on the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.
3 St. Luke’s Hospital may establish and conduct public and intermediate hospital or hospitals
(1) The power of St. Luke’s Hospital to establish and conduct a private hospital or private hospitals shall extend to include a power to establish and conduct a public and intermediate hospital or public and intermediate hospitals and to do all things in relation thereto which may be done by St. Luke’s Hospital in relation to a private hospital or private hospitals.
(2) A public and intermediate hospital or public and intermediate hospitals may be so established and conducted either in addition to or in conjunction with a private hospital or private hospitals established before or after the commencement of this Act.
4 Power to use property for purposes of a public and intermediate hospital or hospitals
Where St. Luke’s Hospital exercises the power conferred upon it by section three of this Act it may use for the purpose:
(a) all or any of the real and personal property vested in it at the commencement of this Act notwithstanding the terms of any trust which requires that property to be used only for the purposes of, or for purposes connected with, a private hospital or private hospitals,
(b) all or any of the real and personal property which may become vested in it after such commencement subject to the terms of any trust affecting that property.
5 St. Luke’s Hospital may become separate institution
St. Luke’s Hospital may apply to become a separate institution within the meaning of the Public Hospitals Act 1929, as amended by subsequent Acts.
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1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the St. Luke’s Hospital Act 1952.
2 Definition
In this Act St. Luke’s Hospital means the association of that name which was registered as a limited company under the Companies Act 1899, on the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.
3 St. Luke’s Hospital may establish and conduct public and intermediate hospital or hospitals
(1) The power of St. Luke’s Hospital to establish and conduct a private hospital or private hospitals shall extend to include a power to establish and conduct a public and intermediate hospital or public and intermediate hospitals and to do all things in relation thereto which may be done by St. Luke’s Hospital in relation to a private hospital or private hospitals.
(2) A public and intermediate hospital or public and intermediate hospitals may be so established and conducted either in addition to or in conjunction with a private hospital or private hospitals established before or after the commencement of this Act.
4 Power to use property for purposes of a public and intermediate hospital or hospitals
Where St. Luke’s Hospital exercises the power conferred upon it by section three of this Act it may use for the purpose:
(a) all or any of the real and personal property vested in it at the commencement of this Act notwithstanding the terms of any trust which requires that property to be used only for the purposes of, or for purposes connected with, a private hospital or private hospitals,
(b) all or any of the real and personal property which may become vested in it after such commencement subject to the terms of any trust affecting that property.
5 St. Luke’s Hospital may become separate institution
St. Luke’s Hospital may apply to become a separate institution within the meaning of the Public Hospitals Act 1929, as amended by subsequent Acts.