New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 116

116 Employment of staff generally

(1) The Government of New South Wales may employ staff under this Part:

(a) to enable local health districts and statutory health corporations, and the public hospitals that they control, to exercise their functions, and

(b) to enable declared affiliated health organisations to exercise their functions in relation to their recognised establishments and recognised services, and

(c) to enable the Director-General to exercise his or her functions under Chapter 5A in relation to ambulance services, and

(d) to enable the Director-General to exercise his or her functions under Part 1A of Chapter 10 in relation to the provision of health support services to public health organisations and the public hospitals that they control, and

(e) to enable the Health Administration Corporation to exercise its functions under this or any other Act.

(2) The employment of staff in the NSW Health Service, including the exercise of employer functions in relation to that staff, is subject to the requirements of this or any other Act relating to that staff.

(3) The Director-General may, subject to subsection (2), exercise on behalf of the Government of New South Wales, the employer functions of the Government in relation to the staff employed in the NSW Health Service.

Note: The Director-General’s functions under this or any other Act may, under section 21 of the Health Administration Act 1982 , be delegated to any person.

(4) The Director-General may create divisions (however described) of staff in the NSW Health Service.

(5) This section does not limit the purposes for which, or the manner in which, staff may be employed in the NSW Health Service.