Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

TRANSPLANTATION AND ANATOMY ACT 1978 - SECT 5

    (1)     For this Act, the Minister may appoint a medical practitioner to be a designated officer for a hospital conducted by the Territory.

    (2)     The persons or body having the control and management of a hospital other than a hospital conducted by the Territory may, in writing, appoint the medical practitioners that those persons or that body consider necessary to be, for this Act, designated officers for that hospital.

Note 1     For the making of appointments (including acting appointments), see the Legislation Act, pt 19.3.

Note 2     In particular, a person may be appointed for a particular provision of a law (see Legislation Act, s 7 (3)) and an appointment may be made by naming a person or nominating the occupant of a position (see Legislation Act, s 207).

Note 3     Certain Ministerial appointments require consultation with an Assembly committee and are disallowable (see Legislation Act, div 19.3.3).