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Provincial Health Authorities (Amendment) Act 2013

PAPUA NEW GUINEA


PROVINCIAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2013


No. 26 of 2013.


Provincial Health Authorities (Amendment) Act 2013.


Certified on: 17/02/14


Provincial Health Authorities (Amendment) Act 2013.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.


Repeal and Replacement of Section 29.


"29. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER."

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No. of 2013.


AN ACT


entitled


Provincial Health Authorities (Amendment) Act 2013,


Being an Act to amend the manner of appointment, suspension and dismissal of chief executive officers of provincial health authorities under the Provincial Health Authorities Act 2007,


MADE by the National Parliament.


REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 29.


Section 29 of the Principal Act is repealed and replaced with the following:


"29. CHIEF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.


(1) There shall be a Chief Executive Officer for each provincial health authority whose manner of appointment, suspension and dismissal shall be as specified in Subsection (2).


(2) A Chief Executive Officer of a public hospital –


(a) shall be appointed by the Board through a merit based selection process approved by the Departmental Head of the Department responsible for personnel management matters; and


(b) shall be appointed on a contract of employment in the prescribed form subject to such terms and conditions by the Salaries and Conditions Monitoring Committee and executed by the Board for a period not exceeding four years as the Board so determines; and


(c) is eligible for re-appointment.


(3) The Provincial Administrator of the Province shall, in consultation with the Departmental Head of the Department -


(a) responsible for personnel management matters; and


(b) responsible for health matters,


intervene in the absence of a Board for any reason dealing with the Chief Executive Officer.".

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I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Provincial Health Authorities (Amendment) Act 2013, which has been made by the National Parliament.


Clerk of the National Parliament.


I hereby certify that the Provincial Health Authorities (Amendment) Act 2013, was made by the National Parliament on 26 November, 2013.


Speaker of the National Parliament.


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