Public Hospitals Act, 1933

Repeals and transitory provisions.

4.—(1) The Public Charitable Hospitals Acts, 1930 to 1932, are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall have effect subject and without prejudice to the subsequent provisions of this section.

(2) The Public Charitable Hospitals Acts, 1930 to 1932, shall continue to apply to every sweepstake for which a scheme was sanctioned under those Acts before the passing of this Act but with and subject to the following modifications, that is to say:—

(a) the available surplus within the meaning of sections 5 and 6 of the Public Charitable Hospitals (Amendment) Act, 1931 (No. 24 of 1931), in every such sweepstake in which a drawing of prizes takes place after the passing of this Act shall (subject to the payment of any duty or tax chargeable in respect thereof) be paid to the National Hospital Trustees and disposed of in accordance with this Act;

(b) so much of the available surplus within the meaning aforesaid in any such sweepstake in which the drawing or all the drawings of prizes has or have taken place before the passing of this Act as has not been lawfully disposed of by the sweepstake committee before such passing shall (subject to the payment of so much of any duty or tax chargeable in respect thereof as remains unpaid at such passing) be paid to the National Hospital Trustees and disposed of in accordance with this Act;

(c) the Minister shall pay to the National Hospital Trustees, to be disposed of in accordance with this Act, so much (if any) of any available surplus within the meaning aforesaid as has been paid to him under the said Acts before the passing of this Act and is not required by him for purposes authorised by those Acts in respect of which arrangements were made before the passing of this Act;

(d) section 3 of the Public Charitable Hospitals (Amendment) Act, 1931 , shall not apply and shall be deemed never to have applied in relation to any sweepstake in respect of which a committee of reference was not appointed under that section before the passing of this Act.