HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 116
Employment of staff generally
HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 116
Employment of staff generally
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 Health
Secretary to exercise his or her functions under Chapter 5A in relation to
ambulance services, and
(d) to enable the Health Secretary to exercise his or
her functions under Part 1A of Chapter 10 in relation to the provision of
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, and
(f) to enable the Cancer
Institute (NSW) 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 Health Secretary
may, subject to this and any other Act or law, 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 (except as otherwise
provided by subsections (3A)-(3D)).
(3A) A local health
district board may, subject to this and any other Act or law, exercise on
behalf of the Government of New South Wales the employer functions of the
Government in relation to the chief executive of the local health district.
(3B) The chief executive of a local health district may, subject to this and
any other Act or law, exercise on behalf of the Government of New South Wales
the employer functions of the Government in relation to the other NSW Health
Service senior executives employed to enable the local health district to
exercise its functions.
(3C) The board of a specialty network governed health
corporation may, subject to this and any other Act or law, exercise on behalf
of the Government of New South Wales the employer functions of the Government
in relation to the chief executive of the health corporation.
(3D) The chief
executive of a specialty network governed health corporation may, subject to
this and any other Act or law, exercise on behalf of the Government of New
South Wales the employer functions of the Government in relation to the other
NSW Health Service senior executives employed to enable the health corporation
to exercise its functions.
(4) The Health Secretary 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.
