New South Wales Consolidated Acts(cf AHS Act s 30)
(1) An area health service may make and enter into contracts or agreements with any person for the performance of services, or for the supply of goods, plant, machinery or material, by that person with respect to the exercise by the area health service of its functions conferred or imposed by or under this or any other Act.
(2) An area health service may also, with the approval of the Director-General, make and enter into contracts or agreements with any person for the provision of any service by the area health service to that person. Any such contract or agreement may extend to the provision of the service outside the area of the area health service.
(3) Any contract or agreement under this section is taken, for the purposes of the Constitution Act 1902 , to be a contract or agreement for or on account of the Public Service of New South Wales.