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HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1927 - SECT 17A

17A .         Hospital boards etc., State guarantees for

        (1)         The payment of all moneys payable by the Treasurer of the State under a guarantee given by him under the authority of this Act, is hereby guaranteed by the State.

        (2)         All sums required by the Treasurer for fulfilling a guarantee so given, shall be charged to the Consolidated Account, which is hereby to the necessary extent appropriated accordingly.

        (3)         Under the authority of this Act the Treasurer of the State may guarantee the repayment of any amount borrowed from time to time —

            (a)         by the board of a public hospital under the powers conferred by section 17; or

            (b)         by any religious or charitable organization for expenditure on a project in connection with a private, non-profit hospital or nursing home maintained or to be maintained by that organization, and which the Minister has certified to the Treasurer to be an approved borrowing for the purpose of this section.

        (4)         A guarantee given under the authority of this Act may extend to the payment of interest on the amount borrowed and to such other charges in relation to the loan as the Treasurer may approve.

        [Section 17A inserted by No. 16 of 1953 s. 3; amended by No. 10 of 1973 s. 3; No. 6 of 1993 s. 11; No. 49 of 1996 s. 64; No. 77 of 2006 s. 4.]



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