Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1927 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This reprint is a compilation as at 27 January 2012 of the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ^{1a, 3}. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Hospitals Act 1927 4	23 of 1927 (18 Geo. V No. 23)	23 Dec 1927	1 Jan 1928 (see s. 1)
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1948	9 of 1948 (12 Geo. VI No. 9)	11 Nov 1948	11 Nov 1948
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1953	16 of 1953 (2 Eliz. II No. 16)	20 Nov 1953	20 Nov 1953
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1955	51 of 1955 (4 Eliz. II No. 51)	9 Dec 1955	9 Dec 1955
Reprint of the Hospitals Act 1927 approved 14 Aug 1961 in Volume 15 of Reprinted Acts (includes amendments listed above)
Decimal Currency Act 1965	113 of 1965	21 Dec 1965	Act other than s. 4-9: 21 Dec 1965 (see s. 2(1)); s. 4-9: 14 Feb 1966 (see s. 2(2))
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1969	89 of 1969	17 Nov 1969	17 Nov 1969
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1972	33 of 1972	16 Jun 1972	30 Jun 1972 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1972 p. 2098-9)
Reprint of the Hospitals Act 1927 approved 11 Dec 1972 (includes amendments listed above)
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1973	10 of 1973	25 May 1973	25 May 1973
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1975	104 of 1975	1 Dec 1975	1 Dec 1975
Hospitals Act Amendment Act 1976	71 of 1976	6 Oct 1976	6 Oct 1976
Hospitals Amendment Act 1980	64 of 1980	26 Nov 1980	8 Jul 1983 (see s. 2 and Gazette 8 Jul 1983 p. 2475)
Hospitals Amendment Act 1981	43 of 1981	26 Aug 1981	1 Sep 1981 (see s. 2)
Acts Amendment (Statutory Designations) and Validation Act 1981 s. 4	63 of 1981	13 Oct 1981	13 Oct 1981
Hospitals Amendment Act 1982	84 of 1982	15 Nov 1982	15 Nov 1982
Hospitals Amendment Act 1983	85 of 1983	22 Dec 1983	Act other than s. 3-9: 22 Dec 1983 (see s. 2(1)); s. 3-9: 1 Feb 1984 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 20 Jan 1984 p. 120)
Health Legislation Amendment Act 1984 Pt. X	28 of 1984	31 May 1984	1 Jul 1984 (see s. 2 and Gazette 15 Jun 1984 p. 1629)
Acts Amendment (Hospitals) Act 1985 Pt. III	53 of 1985 (as amended by No. 55 of 2004 s. 518)	5 Nov 1985	23 Jan 1987 (see s. 2 and Gazette 23 Jan 1987 p. 179)
Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985 s. 3	98 of 1985	4 Dec 1985	1 Jul 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1986 p. 2255)
Acts Amendment (Public Service) Act 1987 s. 32	113 of 1987	31 Dec 1987	16 Mar 1988 (see s. 2 and Gazette 16 Mar 1988 p. 813)
Guardianship and Administration Act 1990 s. 123	24 of 1990	7 Sep 1990	20 Oct 1992 (see s. 2 and Gazette 2 Oct 1992 p. 4811)
Reprint of the Hospitals Act 1927 as at 22 Apr 1993 (includes amendments listed above)
Financial Administration Legislation Amendment Act 1993 s. 11	6 of 1993	27 Aug 1993	1 Jul 1993 (see s. 2(1))
Acts Amendment (Health Services Integration) Act 1994 Pt. 2	49 of 1994	10 Oct 1994	10 Oct 1994 (see s. 2)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1994 s. 4	73 of 1994	9 Dec 1994	9 Dec 1994 (see s. 2)
Hospitals Amendment Act 1994	103 of 1994	11 Jan 1995	s. 1 and 2: 11 Jan 1995; s. 3 and Pt. 2 and 3: 3 Feb 1995 (see s. 2 and Gazette 3 Feb 1995 p. 333)
Local Government (Consequential Amendments) Act 1996 s. 4	14 of 1996	28 Jun 1996	1 Jul 1996 (see s. 2)
Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 1996	17 of 1996	2 Jul 1996	s. 1 and 2: 2 Jul 1996; Act other than s. 1 and 2: 18 Sep 1996 (see s. 2 and Gazette 17 Sep 1996 p. 4691)
Financial Legislation Amendment Act 1996 s. 64	49 of 1996	25 Oct 1996	25 Oct 1996 (see s. 2(1))
Mental Health (Consequential Provisions) Act 1996 Pt. 10	69 of 1996	13 Nov 1996	13 Nov 1997 (see s. 2)
Acts Amendment (Land Administration) Act 1997 Pt. 32	31 of 1997	3 Oct 1997	30 Mar 1998 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Mar 1998 p. 1765)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 1997 s. 74(3) 5	57 of 1997	15 Dec 1997	15 Dec 1997 (see s. 2(1))
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Financial Sector Reform) Act 1999 s. 86	26 of 1999	29 Jun 1999	1 Jul 1999 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 30 Jun 1999 p. 2905)
Reprint of the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 as at 15 Oct 1999 (includes amendments listed above)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2000 s. 18	24 of 2000	4 Jul 2000	4 Jul 2000 (see s. 2)
State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 48(1)	43 of 2000	2 Nov 2000	17 Feb 2001 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 16 Feb 2001 p. 903)
Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2002 6	17 of 2002	8 Jul 2002	8 Jul 2002 (see s. 2)
Acts Amendment (Equality of Status) Act 2003 s. 119	28 of 2003	22 May 2003	1 Jul 2003 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 2003 p. 2579)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2003 s. 67 and 146(2)	74 of 2003	15 Dec 2003	15 Dec 2003 (see s. 2)
Workers’ Compensation Reform Act 2004 s. 161	42 of 2004	9 Nov 2004	14 Nov 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7131 and 17 Jun 2005 p. 2657); Para (b) of proclamation published 31 Dec 2004 p. 7131 revoked (see Gazette 17 Jun 2005 p. 2657)
State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 2 Div. 63 Subdiv. 1 7	55 of 2004	24 Nov 2004	1 Jan 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7130)
Health Legislation Amendment Act 2004 Pt. 4	61 of 2004	24 Nov 2004	24 Nov 2004 (see s. 2)
Reprint 5: The Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 as at 26 Aug 2005 (includes amendments listed above except those in the Workers’ Compensation Reform Act 2004)
Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 9 Div. 6 8	28 of 2006	26 Jun 2006	1 Jul 2006 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Jun 2006 p. 2347)
Hospitals and Health Services Amendment Act 2006	45 of 2006	4 Oct 2006	4 Oct 2006 (see s. 2)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 4 and Sch. 1 cl. 86	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Duties Legislation Amendment Act 2008 Sch. 1 cl. 16	12 of 2008	14 Apr 2008	1 Jul 2008 (see s. 2(d))
Medical Practitioners Act 2008 Sch. 3 cl. 27	22 of 2008	27 May 2008	1 Dec 2008 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Nov 2008 p. 4989)
Reprint 6: The Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 as at 13 Feb 2009 (includes amendments listed above)
Statutes (Repeals and Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2009 s. 13	8 of 2009	21 May 2009	22 May 2009 (see s. 2(b))
Acts Amendment (Bankruptcy) Act 2009 s. 43	18 of 2009	16 Sep 2009	17 Sep 2009 (see s. 2(b))
Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 4 and 51	19 of 2010	28 Jun 2010	11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Act 2010 Pt. 5 Div. 26	35 of 2010	30 Aug 2010	18 Oct 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 1 Oct 2010 p. 5075-6)
Public Sector Reform Act 2010 s. 89	39 of 2010	1 Oct 2010	1 Dec 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 5 Nov 2010 p. 5563)
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2011 s. 16 and 27	47 of 2011	25 Oct 2011	26 Oct 2011 (see s. 2(b))
Reprint 7: The Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 as at 27 Jan 2012 (includes amendments listed above)

^1a On the date as at which this reprint was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in compiling the reprint. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 48(2) 9	43 of 2000	2 Nov 2000	To be proclaimed (see s. 2(2))

² The Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938 was repealed by the State Superannuation Act 2000 s. 39, but its provisions continue to apply to and in relation to certain schemes because of the State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 26.

³ The Courts Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 25 was deleted by the Criminal Law and Evidence Amendment Act 2008 s. 77(13).

⁴ Now known as the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927; short title changed (see note under s. 1).

8. Validation

(1) In this section —

agency has the same meaning as it has in the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927.

(2) Anything done or purporting to have been done by an agency for the purposes referred to in section 7B(1) of the Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 is, and is taken always to have been, as valid and effective as it would have been if the amendments to that Act in sections 5 and 6 had at all relevant times been made.

⁷ The State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 5, the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 s. 167 and 169, and the State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 28 and 42 deal with certain transitional issues some of which may be relevant for this Act.

⁸ The Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 9 Div. 13 reads as follows:

Division 13 — Transitional provisions

289. Commissioner of Health

(1) A thing done or omitted to be done by, to or in relation to, the Commissioner of Health before commencement under, or for the purposes of, an enactment has the same effect after commencement, to the extent that it has any force or significance after commencement, as if it had been done or omitted by, to or in relation to, the CEO.

(2) In this section —

CEO has the meaning given by section 3 of the Health Legislation Administration Act 1984 as in force after commencement;

commencement means the time at which this Division comes into operation;

Commissioner of Health means the Commissioner of Health referred to in section 6(1)(a) of the Health Legislation Administration Act 1984 as in force before commencement.

⁹ On the date as at which this reprint was prepared, the State Superannuation (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 s. 48(2) had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

48. Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 amended

(2) The Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927 is amended as follows:

(a) in section 7E(2) —

(i) at the end of paragraph (b) by deleting the comma and inserting a full stop instead;

(ii) by deleting the rest of the subsection;

(b) in section 7E(5) by deleting “the scheme for accrued or accruing benefits under the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938,”;

(c) in section 12A(1) by deleting “contributors for the purposes of the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act 1938.” and inserting instead —

“

Members of a superannuation scheme continued by section 29(c) or (d) of the State Superannuation Act 2000.

”.

Defined Terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined Term Provision(s)
additional board 16(2)
agency 2(1)
agency board 2(1)
amalgamated board 16(2)
board 2(1)
body corporate 26A
CEO 2(1)
Commonwealth Act 2(1)
Commonwealth Minister 34(5)
day hospital facility 2(1)
Department 2(1)
document 7D(8)
eligible person 34(5)
eligible persons 37(2e)
Executive Director 2(1)
former board 16(2)
hospital 2(1)
hospital service 2(1)
hospital service provider 2(1)
illness 2(1a)
infectious disease 2(1)
information 7D(8)
licence 26A
mental illness 26P
Minister for Works 35C(6)
nursing home 2(1)
nursing post 2(1)
officer or servant of the board 22(1a)
original board 16(2)
personal information 26S(8)
practitioner 2(1)
private hospital 2(1)
private non-profit hospital 2(1)
private psychiatric hostel 26P
public authority 7B(10)
public hospital 2(1)
public patient 34(5)
recognized hospitals 37(2e)
relevant notice 16(1)

resident 26P
services 18(2b)
specified 22(1a), 37(4)
State Supply Commission 35C(6)
superannuation arrangement 7E(5)
teaching hospital 2(1)
the contractor 35C(1)
waiting times 34(2)