Health Act, 1947

Discontinuance of health institution.

11.—(1) A health authority may, with the consent of the Minister, discontinue, as from a specified date, a health institution maintained by them or any department of such a health institution.

(2) The Minister, after having caused a local inquiry to be held in relation to the desirability of so doing, may by order direct a health authority to discontinue, as from a specified date, a health institution maintained by them or any department of such an institution.

(3) Where a health institution or a department of a health institution is discontinued under subsection (1) of this section, the Minister may by order make such provisions as appear to him to be necessary and proper in relation to matters incidental to or consequent on the discontinuance.

(4) Where a health institution or a department of a health institution is discontinued by an order under subsection (2) of this section:—

(a) the Minister may by order make such provisions as appear to him to be necessary and proper in relation to matters incidental to or consequent on the discontinuance,

(b) the Minister, if he so thinks proper, may by order direct the authority to provide and maintain at a specified place an institution of a specified character or size in substitution for the discontinued institution or department.

(5) A health authority shall comply with every order made in relation to them under this section.