THE NEW ACT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12739, 10 March 1910, Page 2

THE NEW ACT.

The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, which was passed last session, will com© into force on April Ist, save that all elections, appointments, notices, etc., may bo held, made, or issued at any time alter the passing of the Act. The representatives on a Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of any contributory district shall be elected by "the electors of the contributory local authority of the district, aud every elector shall have one vote only. Every candidate who does not poll one-eighth of the votes polled by the successful candidate shall forfeit his deposit of three pounds

The cost of the election are to be paid by the contributory local authority. Iv regard to travelling expenses of members, the Board may reimburse the expenses reasonably incurred and actually paid by Jiim in going to or returning from any meetting of the Board and any committee of the Board of which ho is a member, or ill making any official visit of inspection to any institution when appointed by the Board or any committee of the Board to make that inspection. Before any member is paid any money for travelling expenses," he is to make a statutory declaration that he has not been paid and is not entitled to bo paid any sum in respect of the same travelling expenses by any other person or body corporate. The Government is to contribute a subsidy not exceeding 10s for evory pound of the value of all devises and bequests; twenty-four shillings for every pound of the value of all voluntary contributions or gifts of money, land, or other property other than devises or bequests ; for ©very pound levied by the Board from contributory local authority (1) one pound in respect of capital expenditure and so much on the rates levied per head of the population as set out in the fourth schedule of the Act. The subsidy shall not exceed £500 in respect of the estate of a single testator. Tho Board may at any time establish a hospital or other institution for the reception or relief of persons requiring medical or surgical treatment; a charitable institution for the reception or relief of children or of aged, infirm, incurable, or destitute persons; a maternity home; a sanatorium for persons suffering from consumption or other disease; an institution for the reception of habitual inebriates; a reformatory institution for the reception of women and girls; an institution established for any other purpose which the Gov-ernor-in-Council declares to be a public charitable purpose within the provisions of the Act. The Board may close any institution with the consent of the Minister. Teachers and students of. a medical sohool are entitled to access to institutions under the control of the Board. It is provided that no house shall be used as a private hospital except under the authority of a license from the Minister.