1University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals, Act 1955

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University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals, Act 1955

Western Australia

University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals, Act 1955

Contents

1. Short title 1

2. Interpretation 1

3. Declaration of teaching hospitals 2

4. Power of managing body or Minister to enter into agreement with Senate 3

5. Regulations 4

Notes

Compilation table 5

Defined terms

Western Australia

University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals, Act 1955

An Act to provide facilities in certain hospitals for the teaching of medical students of the University of Western Australia Medical School.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the University Medical School, Teaching Hospitals, Act 1955.

2. Interpretation

In this Act unless the context requires otherwise —

health service provider has the meaning given in the Health Services Act 2016 section 6;

managing body, in relation to a hospital, means the health service provider that has control or management of the hospital;

medical student means a person who studies medicine;

medicine means all or any of the branches of medicine or surgery or both;

mental health hospital means a public hospital that the regulations provide is to be regarded as a mental health hospital for the purposes of this Act;

public hospital has the meaning given in the Health Services Act 2016 section 6, and includes —

(a) a hospital established under the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911 Part XII; and

(b) a mental health hospital;

Senate means the Senate constituted pursuant to the University of Western Australia Act 1911;

teaching hospital means a public hospital which —

(a) has been declared under section 3(1); and

(b) has not ceased by reason of a declaration made under section 3(2),

to be a teaching hospital to which the provisions of this Act apply.

[Section 2 amended: No. 21 of 1985 s. 2; No. 103 of 1994 s. 18; No. 69 of 1996 s. 92; No. 11 of 2016 s. 305(2)-(4); No. 19 of 2016 s. 198.]

3. Declaration of teaching hospitals

(1) Where the Senate is of opinion that a public hospital is suitable for the teaching of medicine, the Senate may give written notification to that effect to the Minister who shall, as soon after receiving it as is practicable, present the notification to the Governor who may by proclamation declare the public hospital to be a teaching hospital to which the provisions of this Act apply.