Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SERVICES (NO 50 OF 1997)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Community and Health Services Complaints (Amendment) Act 1997.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Health Complaints Act 1993.1  
   4.      The long title of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “of services for the aged and people with disabilities and” after “providers”.  
   5.      Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Health” and substituting “Community and Health Services”.  
   6.      Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) “community services and” before “health” (wherever occurring).  
   7.      Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   8.      Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   9.      Before section 8 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Division 2 of Part II:  
   10.     Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “for Health Complaints”.  
   11.     Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   12.     Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) “community service or” before “health”.  
   13.     The heading to Part III of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “HEALTH SERVICES”.  
   14.     Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “community service or” before “health”.  
   15.     Section 22 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   16.     Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (1) (b) “community service or” before “health”.  
   17.     Section 33 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) “community service or” before “health”.  
   18.     Section 40 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (1) (d) “community services or” before “health”.  
   19.     Section 51 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   20.     The heading to Part VIII of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “COMMUNITY AND” before “HEALTH”.  
   21.     Section 61 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “Community and” before “Health”.  
   22.     Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   23.     Section 63 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:  
   24.     Section 70 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (4) “3” and substituting “a majority of”.  
   25.     Section 71A of the Principal Act is amended—  
   26.     Section 79 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (4) (b) “community service or” before “health”.  
   27.     The Schedule to the Principal Act is amended—  
   28.     The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are amended as set out in that Schedule.  
   29.     A person who, immediately before the commencement of section 23, was a member of the Health Rights Advisory Council ceases to be a member on that commencement.  
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