Public Hospitals (Amendment) Act, 1940

Extension of exercise of certain powers.

7.—(1) In this section the expression “the principal sub-section” means sub-section (6) of section 14 of the Public Hospitals Act, 1933 (No. 18 of 1933), as amended by the immediately preceding section.

(2) For the purposes of the performance of the duties of the Minister and of the Hospitals Commission under the Public Hospitals Acts, 1933 to 1939, and this Act, any officer of the Minister duly authorised in that behalf by the Minister or any officer of the Hospitals Commission duly authorised in that behalf by the Hospitals Commission may exercise all or any of the powers specified in the principal sub-section.

(3) Any person who wilfully obstructs or interferes with the exercise by virtue of this section or the principal sub-section of any of the powers specified in the principal sub-section or who fails to furnish any information which is at his disposal and which by virtue of this section or the principal sub-section he is called upon to give shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.