National Maternity Hospital, Dublin (Charter Amendment) Act, 1936

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Powers of executive committee.

12.—Without prejudice to the generality of the powers of the executive committee and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Charter contained the executive committee shall have all powers necessary for or incidental to carrying into effect the objects of the hospital and in particular the following powers:—

(1) to direct the common seal of the corporation to be affixed to any document;

(2) to appoint such salaried officers and servants as they may determine at such salaries and wages as they may think fit and to remove, suspend and dismiss any of such officers or servants;

(3) to suspend the master;

(4) to appoint, suspend or remove any assistant master;

(5) to add to or reduce the staff of the hospital and to alter the duties of any member of the staff;

(6) to grant, sell, lease, exchange or mortgage any lands, tenements or hereditaments at any time vested in the corporation other than the hospital building;

(7) subject to the provisions of section 2 of this Act to purchase or take on lease real or chattel real property of any tenure;

(8) to deal with the moneys and funds of the corporation and prescribe and determine which and what parts thereof shall be retained or realised to meet either current or capital expenditure and which and what parts shall be invested or reinvested;

(9) to grant pensions, gratuities, bonuses, honoraria, compensation or allowances to and to establish and carry on pension, sickness, accident, welfare or other funds for the benefit of any officers, nurses or servants of the corporation or their dependents and to adopt the existing superannuation scheme or to amend the same or to substitute therefor another scheme or schemes as the executive committee may deem expedient;

(10) to borrow money for purposes of or connected with the hospital and secure the same and any interest thereon upon any property of the corporation;

(11) to appoint sub-committees consisting of members of the executive committee or in part only of members of the executive committee and in part of such other persons (being members of the corporation) as the executive committee may select and to delegate to such sub-committees such powers and duties as the executive committee may deem expedient;

(12) to make, alter and revoke bye-laws and regulations for the management of the hospital and of the property and affairs of the corporation and for regulating the procedure at meetings of the corporation and of the executive committee and of any sub-committee.