61   Delegations by statutory health corporations

(cf AHS Act s 34)

(1)  A statutory health corporation may delegate to any member of the NSW Health Service the exercise of any of its functions, other than:

(a)  this power of delegation, or

(b)  the power to make by-laws.

Note. Section 49 of the Interpretation Act 1987 contains general provisions relating to the delegation of functions.

(2)  The relevant authority may give any direction to a statutory health corporation concerning delegations under this section that the relevant authority thinks fit.

(3)  Nothing in this section authorises a statutory health corporation to delegate the whole of its functions to another person.

(4)  For the purposes of this section, the functions of a board governed health corporation include the functions of its health corporation board.

(5)  In this section, relevant authority means:

(a)  in relation to a board governed health corporation, the Minister, and

(b)  in relation to a chief executive governed health corporation or specialty network governed health corporation, the Director-General.