New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 36

36 Power to accept property by gifts, devises and bequests

(cf AHS Act s 29)

(1) An area health service may acquire any property by gift, devise or bequest and may agree to and carry out the conditions of any such gift, devise or bequest, but only if the carrying out of any such conditions is not inconsistent with the purposes and functions of the service.

(2) The rule of law against remoteness of vesting does not apply to any such condition to which an area health service has agreed.

(3) An area health service may act as trustee of money or other property vested in the area health service on trust.