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Public Hospitals and Dispensaries (Budget Amendment) Act 2018

REPUBLIC OF FIJI


PUBLIC HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES (BUDGET AMENDMENT) ACT 2018

ACT NO. 27 OF 2018

I assent.

J.K KONROTE

President


[13 July 2018]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES ACT 1955


ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji—

Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Hospitals and Dispensaries (Budget Amendment) Act 2018.

(2) This Act comes into force on a date or dates appointed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3) In this Act, the Public Hospitals and Dispensaries Act 1955 is referred to as the “Principal Act”.

Section 2 amended

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) in the definition of “officer in charge” after “management of a public hospital or public dispensary”, inserting “and in the case of a public private partnership hospital or public private partnership dispensary, the officer in charge shall be appointed by the private entity that is operating, maintaining or managing the respective hospital or dispensary”;
(b) in the definition of “Permanent Secretary” after “;”, deleting “and”; and
(c) deleting the definitions of “public hospital” and “public dispensary” and inserting the following new definitions—

Section 2A inserted

3. The Principal Act is amended after section 2 by inserting the following new section—

Application of the Act
2A. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, sections 6(3), 7(2), 8, 9, 10, 10A and 10B shall not apply to a public private partnership hospital or public private partnership dispensary.”.

Section 4 amended

4. The Principal Act is amended in section 4 by—

(a) renumbering section 4 as section 4(1);
(b) in subsection (1), deleting “Every person seeking admission to a” and substituting “In the case of a public hospital that is not a public private partnership hospital, every person seeking admission to the”; and
(c) after subsection (1), inserting the following new subsection—

Section 5 amended

5. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) in subsection (2), deleting “The manager of any” and substituting “In the case of a public hospital that is not a public private partnership hospital, the manager of the”; and
(b) after subsection (2), inserting the following new subsection—

Section 6 amended

6. Section 6(1) of the Principal Act is amended after paragraph (a) by inserting the following new paragraph—

(aa) the operation, maintenance or management of a public private partnership hospital or public private partnership dispensary;”.

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 12th day of July 2018.


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