New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 63

63 Medical districts

(1) The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette:

(a) describe a medical district (which may include a specified river, lake or harbour, or any specified coastal water or other water), and

(b) nominate a specified medical practitioner as the medical officer of health for the medical district on and from a date stated in the order.

(2) An order under this section may describe a group of medical districts and nominate the same medical practitioner as the medical officer of health for each of them.

(3) The medical officer of health nominated for a medical district may exercise his or her functions under this Act only:

(a) within that medical district, or

(b) with the authority of the Director-General, within any other medical district during the absence, or a vacancy in the office, of its medical officer of health.

(4) With the authority of the Director-General, a medical practitioner who is an officer of the Department of Health and has the prescribed qualifications may, in any medical district, exercise any of the functions of the medical officer of health for the medical district.