New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SCHEDULE 8

SCHEDULE 8 – Transferred provisions--Sydney Hospital (Trust Property) Act 1984

1 Future property

(1) To the extent to which, by a deed, will or other instrument, whether taking effect before, on or after 14 December 1984 (the
"appointed day" )--

(a) any property would, but for this clause, be devised, bequeathed, given, granted, released, conveyed or appointed on or after the appointed day to The Sydney Hospital, or another person, for, or for the benefit of, or in trust for, a unit or the purposes of a unit, or

(b) any property would, but for this clause, be declared or directed on or after the appointed day to be held by any person for, or for the benefit of, or in trust for, a unit or the purposes of a unit,

the deed, will or other instrument shall be construed and have effect as if the reference therein to The Sydney Hospital or the person, as the case may be, were a reference to the relevant hospital.

(2) In this clause--

"relevant hospital" , in relation to a unit, means--

(a) where the unit is the Cardio-renal Unit, the Endocrine Unit or the Renal Unit--The Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney, and

(b) where the unit is the Kanematsu Memorial Institute, the Melanoma Unit or the Solid Tissue Tumour Unit--The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and

(c) where the unit is the Immunology Unit or the Radiation Oncology Unit--the Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital (Waratah), and

(d) where the unit is the Biorheology Unit--The Rachel Forster Hospital.

"unit" means a unit of The Sydney Hospital existing immediately before 1 October 1982, being one of the following--

(a) Biorheology Unit,

(b) Cardio-renal Unit,

(c) Endocrine Unit,

(d) Immunology Unit,

(e) Kanematsu Memorial Institute,

(f) Melanoma Unit,

(g) Radiation Oncology Unit,

(h) Renal Unit,

(i) Solid Tissue Tumour Unit.

(3) Subclauses (1) and (2) re-enact (with minor modifications) the definition of
"unit" in section 3(1), and section 5, of the Sydney Hospital (Trust Property) Act 1984 and are transferred provisions to which section 30A of the Interpretation Act 1987 applies.