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Christchurch Hospital Ordinance 1863

18. The Christchurch Hospital Ordinance 1863

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Repealing Clause.

2. Superintendent may retain a site for Public Hospital.

3. Such site to be conveyed to Body Corporate herein created.

4. Subscription of Thirty Guineas to constitute a Life Governor, and Two Guineas annually a Governor during payment.

5. Hospital to be ruled by two Boards of Governors.

6. Nine Governors necessary to constitute a General Board.

7. General Board to meet four times a year, and oftener, if necessary.

8. Officers elected by the General Board.

9. Board: of whom to consist.

10. Powers and duties of Board of Management.

11. The Board to meet 1st May in each year. Accounts to be audited and published.

12. Penalty for infringement of Rules.

13. Persons duly qualified alone to be permitted to practice in said Hospital.

14. Title.

Whereas it is expedient that an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entituled the "Public Hospital Ordinance, Session XIX., No. 20," should be repealed, and other provisions made in lieu thereof:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Repealing Clause.

The said recited Ordinance is hereby repealed.

2. Superintendent may retain a site for Public Hospital.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to retain, as a site for a Public Hospital and grounds connected therewith, a portion of land situate near Christchurch, commonly known as Hagley Park; being bounded on the north by a creek running into the River Avon, on the south-east by the Lincoln Road, measuring,

from the river, four hundred and nineteen links to the corner of the plantation; and on the south, from the corner of the plantation on the Riccarton Road to a point

six hundred and fifty links along that road, and thence in a northerly direction to a creek at the starting point, and containing five acres one rood and thirty-eight perches.

3. Such site to be conveyecl to Body Corporate herein created.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice of the Executive Council, to convey the site herein described to a Body Corporate, which is hereby created, and which shall consist of the Superintendent of the Province, and the Members of the Executive Government of the Province for the time

being, to be for ever held, in trust, for the uses and purposes of a Public Hospital; and the said Superintendent and Members of the Executive Council shall constitute such Body Corporate, under the name and title of " Trustees of Christchurch Hospital," and by that name they shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with full power and authority to alter, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name and style to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended in

all Courts of Law or Equity whatsoever. And it shall be lawful for the said Trustees, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to accept all such voluntary grants or emises of land, tenements, or other donations, whether of money or personal property, as shall or may be made to them as such Body Corporate.

4. Subscription of Thirty Guineas to constitute a Life Governor, and Two Guineas annually a Governor during payment.

For the purpose of carrying out the general management of the said Hospital, every person who shall subscribe Thirty Guineas at one n Gorernor during time shall be a Governor for life, and all Subscribers of Two Guineas or upwards annually, Governors during payment. And any Corporation, or Firm, Institute or Society, or other associated Body, which shall subscribe Thirty Guineas at one time, shall have the po ver of nominating one individual of the said Corporation, or Firm, Institute, or Society, or other associated Body, as a Life Governor of the Eospital for every Thirty Guineas so subscribed.

5. Hospital to be ruled by two Boards of Governors.

All affairs of the Hospital shall be directed and controlled by two Boards of

Governors, to be called " The General Board," and " The Board of Management."

6. Nine Governors necessary to constitute a General Board.

The General Board shall consist of all the Governors of the Hospital, nine of whom shall be necessary to constitute a Board; it shall possess the sole power of making, altering, and repealing By-laws; of nominating, electing, removing and fixing the salaries of Officers, and in it shall be vested the supreme authority in all matters.

7. General Board to meet four times a year, and oftener, if necessary.

The General Board shall meet at four stated periods in the year, and as much oftener as may be necessary on special business; all such meetings to be convened by public advertisement, at least fifteen days prior to the day of meeting, due notice of which shall be given in one or more Newspapers of the Province, and specifying the particular subjects to be then taken into consideration.

8. Officers elected by the General Board.

There shall be a President, a Treasurer, and Secretary, all of whom shall be elected by the General Board.

9. Board: of whom to consist.

The Board of Management shall consist of the President and the Treasurer, who shall be ex offcio Members, and nine Governors (not being Medical or Surgical Offlcers of the Institution), who shall be elected at the annual meeting of the General Board. Of the Governors thus elected, six shall retire in rotation at the end of every year, but shall be eligible for

re-election.

10. Powers and duties of Board of Management.

The Board of Management shall regulate the affairs of the Hospital, subject to the powers vested in the General Board; they shall have power to appoint, remove and fix the salaries of Nurses and Servants, and shall have power to suspend the Apothecary, Secretary, or Matron for misbehaviour, and to appoint others during suspension.

11. The Board to meet 1st May in each year. Accounts to be audited and published.

The General Board shall, on the first day of May in each year, forward to the Trustees hereby created, correct copies of all Laws, By-laws, and Regulations then in force, and an Account of all moneys received and disbursed, for the purpose of being audited by the Provincial Auditor, an Abstract whereof shall be be published in the Provincial Government Gazette by the said Board.

12. Penalty for infringement of Rules.

Any person in the said Hospital who shall behave in a disorderly manner therein, or on the premises thereof, or any person who shall supply any spirituous liquors to the Patients in the said Hospital, contrary to the By-laws then in force in the

said Hospital, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not exceeding

Ten Pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

13. Persons duly qualified alone to be permitted to practice in said Hospital.

No person shall at any time be permitted to attend as Medical or Surgical Adviser on any Patient in the said Hospital, or to hold any medical or surgical office or appointment in or about the said Hospital, except such person shall be a duly qualified Medical Practitioner under some Act or Ordinance for the time being in force in the Province of Canterbury.

14. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as "The Christchurch Hospital

Ordinance, 1863."

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Provincial Council on 16th September 1863 and assented to by the Superintendent on 25th of that month.