Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Act, 1996

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Number 32 of 1996


HEALTH (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) ACT, 1996


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Interpretation.

2.

Health board to have regard to certain matters in performing functions.

3.

Reserved functions.

4.

Executive functions.

5.

Determination by Minister of net expenditure limits for a health board.

6.

Adoption of a service plan by a health board.

7.

Supervision and amendment of a service plan.

8.

Amount of indebtedness of a health board.

9.

Functions of chief executive officer.

10.

Expenditure by a health board.

11.

Accounts of a health board.

12.

Transfer of functions of a health board.

13.

Directions to a health board.

14.

Appointment and removal from office of chief executive officer.

15.

Annual report of a health board.

16.

Dissolution of certain bodies.

17.

Amendments of Principal Act.

18.

Amendments of Health Act, 1947.

19.

Amendment of Health Act, 1953.

20.

Amendment of Health (Nursing Homes) Act, 1990.

21.

Amendment of Nurses Act, 1985.

22.

Amendment of Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961.

23.

Repeals and revocations.

24.

Laying of orders before Houses of Oireachtas.

25.

Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement.


FIRST SCHEDULE

Reserved Functions

SECOND SCHEDULE

PART I

Enactments Repealed

PART II

Regulations Revoked

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Number 32 of 1996


HEALTH (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) ACT, 1996


AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISION IN RELATION TO THE INCOME, EXPENDITURE AND INDEBTEDNESS OF HEALTH BOARDS, TO APPORTION RESPONSIBILITIES BETWEEN HEALTH BOARDS AND THEIR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, TO AMEND THE HEALTH ACTS, 1947 TO 1996, THE HEALTH (CORPORATE BODIES) ACT, 1961 , AND THE NURSES ACT, 1985 , AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS. [6th November, 1996]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: