Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006

Western Australia

CONTENTS

1. Short title 2

2. Commencement 2

3. The Act amended 2

4. Section 26K replaced 2

26K. Offences 2

Western Australia

Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006

No. 45 of 2006

An Act to amend the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927.

[Assented to 4 October 2006]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1. Short title

This is the Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006.

2. Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927*.

[* Reprinted as at 15 October 1999.

For subsequent amendments see Western Australian Legislation Information Tables for 2004, Table 1, p. 208 and Act No. 42 of 2004.]

4. Section 26K replaced

Section 26K is repealed and the following section is inserted instead —

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26K. Offences

A person must not —

(a) conduct or manage, or by any means hold out that the person conducts or manages, a private hospital unless —

(i) the person is the holder of a licence; or

(ii) the private hospital is a nursing home and the conduct or management of the nursing home is a residential care service, or part of a residential care service, that is certified under Part 2.6 of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;

(b) conduct or manage, or by any means hold out that that person conducts or manages, a private hospital unless —

(i) the premises are premises that are approved as a private hospital under this Part; or

(ii) the premises are a nursing home and the conduct or management of the nursing home is a residential care service, or part of a residential care service, that is certified under Part 2.6 of the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;

(i) the Commissioner has approved of the building, alteration or extension, as the case requires; or

Penalty: $5 000.

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