Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Epworth Foundation Act 1980 - SECT 4

Objects

4. Objects

The Foundation may carry out all or any of the following objects-

   (a)  to promote and fund medical and health care research of any kind in
        Australia that is, or is likely to be, of benefit to the community;



   (b)  to promote, advance and provide financial assistance for medical and
        other health care education in Australia including, without
        limitation, the education and training in Australia of medical
        students, nurses, medical practitioners and others engaged in the
        provision of medical and other health care services;

   (c)  to provide financial or other assistance for the purpose of enabling
        persons residing in Australia to obtain medical or other health care
        services in Australia which they could not otherwise afford;

   (d)  to conduct and maintain a hospital or hospitals in Australia;

   (e)  in relation to a hospital or hospitals conducted and maintained under
        paragraph (d), to promote the treatment of each patient in a manner
        that accords the respect due to a person before God, according to the
        beliefs of the Uniting Church;

   (f)  to provide medical and other health care services of any kind in
        Australia;

   (g)  to provide funds or otherwise assist another entity which does not
        seek to secure pecuniary profit for its individual members to provide
        medical or other health care services of any kind in Australia;

   (h)  to promote and provide funds in Australia for charitable purposes
        located in Australia and being undertaken solely in Australia
        including, without limitation, providing funds to an entity or trust
        whose purposes or objects are wholly charitable and wholly carried out
        within Australia.