37   Contracts of local health district

(cf AHS Act s 30)

(1)  A local health district 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 local health district of its functions conferred or imposed by or under this or any other Act.

(2)  A local health district 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 local health district to that person. Any such contract or agreement may extend to the provision of the service outside the area of the local health district.

(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.