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Westland Hospital Ordinance 1867

13. The Canterbury Goldfields Hospitals Ordinance 1867.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Land granted to be vested in Superintendent.

2. Superintendent to grant power to Board.

3. Governors constituted upon subscription. Government subsidy.

4. In case of surplus at end of year.

5. “General Board” and “Committee of Management.”

6. Constitution of General Board.

7. Meetings of General Board.

8. Officers.

9. Election of Committee of Management.

10. Power of Committee of Management.

11. General Board to account to Trustees.

12. Penalty on disorderly behaviour.

13. No other than duly qualified Medical Practitioner to attend.

14. Title.

Whereas it is expedient to encourage the establishment of Hospitals in those parts of the Province of Canterbury called Westland where they may be required to be maintained partly by aid from the public funds and to remove difficulties that may arise in the management of the affairs of such Institutions:

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

1. Land granted to be vested in Superintendent.

The Superintendent of the said Province and his successors in office shall be capable of taking and holding all lands tenements and hereditaments which may be granted conveyed or bequeathed to any such Institution and all such lands tenements and hereditaments shall be held to be vested in the said Superintendent and his successors in office in trust for the benefit of such Institution.

2. Superintendent to grant power to Board.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to permit and suffer the General Board or Committee of Management of any such Institution respectively to erect such buildings and perform such other acts in respect to such lands tenements and hereditaments as shall be deemed expedient and necessary for carrying outr the object of such Institution and by the name and style of the General Board or Committee of Management to sue and be sued plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend and be defended in all Courts or Law or Equity whatsoever.

3. Governors constituted upon subscription. Government subsidy.

For the purpose of carrying out the general management of said Hospitals every person who shall subscribe Twenty Pounds Sterling at one time shall be a Governor for life and all subscribers of One Pound Sterling or upwards annually Governors during payment Government to supplement out of the Provincial Revenue with an equal sum all sums annually subscribed and otherwise collected for erecting upholding furnishing provisioning maintaining attendance and necessaries in each Hospital.

4. In case of surplus at end of year.

Should there be at the termination of each financial year a surplus over expenditure said surplus shall be reimbursed to Government said reimbursement not to exceed the contribution made by Government during the past financial year.

5. “General Board” and “Committee of Management.”

All affairs of the Hospital in each District shall be directed and controlled by two bodies of Governors to be called the “General Board” and the “Committee of Management.”

6. Constitution of 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 and in it shall be vested the supreme authority in all matters.

7. Meetings of General Board.

The General Board shall meet twice during the year and as much oftener as may be necessary on special business all such meetings to be convened by public advertisement at least seven days prior to the day of meeting due notice of which shall be given in the local newspaper of the District and specifying the particular subjects to be then taken into consideration.

8. Officers.

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

9. Election of Committee of Management.

The Committee of Management shall consist of the President and the Treasurer who shall be ex officio members and nine Governors (not being Medical or Surgical Officers 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. Power of Committee of Management.

The Committee 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 Salaries of the Medical Officers Wardsmen Matrons and Servants and shall have power to suspend the Secretary for misbehaviour and to appoint another during suspension.

11. General Board to account to Trustees.

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 published in the Provincial Government Gazette.

12. Penalty on disorderly behaviour.

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 said Hospitals contrary to the By-Laws then in force in the said Hospitals shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty of not exceeding Ten Pounds Sterling to be recovered in a summary way.

13. No other than duly qualified Medical Practitioner to attend.

No person shall at any time be permitted to attend as Medical or Surgical Adviser on any patient in the said Hospitals or to hold any Medical or Surgical office or appointment in or about the said Hospitals 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 Canterbury

Goldfields Hospital Ordinance 1867.”

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on the 3rd January 1867, and assented to by the Superintendent on the 9th January. D NZG 1867 p121.