Provisional Orders (No. 1). A.D. 1928. provision maintenance and management of hospitals for the reception of cases of infectious diseases other than smallpox : Saint Asaph Definitions. Short title and commencement. Formation of United District. Constitution Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the powers given to him by Section 279 of the Public Health Act 1875 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby 5 orders as follows viz. : 1. In this Order unless the context otherwise requires- "Constituent District' means a district named in 10 column 1 of that Schedule ; "United District " means the united district formed by this Order; 66 'Assessable value" in relation to a Constituent District means: 15 (i) Until the date on which the first new valuation list to be made under Part II of the Rating and Valuation Act 1925 comes into force in that district the total net annual value of that district reduced by seventy-five per centum of the net annual value of 20 agricultural land in the district; and (ii) on and after that date the total rateable value of that district; "The appointed day" means the date of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order; 66 The Joint Board" means the governing body of the 25 2. This Order may be cited as the Saint Asaph Joint Hospital Order 1927 and shall come into operation on the appointed day. 30 3. The Constituent Districts shall be formed into a United District to be called the Saint Asaph Joint Hospital District for the purposes of the provision maintenance and management for the use of the inhabitants of the Constituent Districts of hospitals for the reception of cases of infectious diseases other than 35 smallpox. 4. The Joint Board shall consist of five ex-officio members of governing and twenty-four elective members and shall be called the Saint body. Asaph Joint Hospital Board. Ex-officio and elective members. 5. The ex-officio members shall be the persons described in 40 column 3 of the First Schedule to this Order and the elective members shall be elected by the Constituent Authorities. Provisional Orders (No. 1). A.D. 1928. Saint Asaph 6. The number of members of the Joint Board to be elected by each Constituent Authority shall be the number set opposite the name of the Constituent Authority in column 4 of the Number and First Schedule to this Order and that number of members of qualifica5 the Joint Board shall be chosen by the Constituent Authority elective from among their own members. tion of members. 7. The first election of members of the Joint Board shall Date of take place at a meeting of each Constituent Authority to be held first election. within six weeks after the appointed day or within such further 10 time as the Minister may allow and three days' previous notice in writing of the meeting shall be given or sent to each member of the Constituent Authority by the clerk to that Authority. 8. The clerk to each Constituent Authority shall notify in Notificawriting to the Minister within seven days after the first election tion to 15 has taken place the name address and occupation of each of the Minister of persons elected by the Constituent Authority as a member of the members Joint Board. first elected. 9.-(1) Any vacancy occurring amongst the elective mem- Supply of bers of the Joint Board by death resignation disqualification or vacancies. 20 otherwise shall be filled by the Constituent Authority in whose representation the vacancy happens at a meeting to be held within six weeks after the occurrence of the vacancy or within such further period as the Minister may allow. (2) The clerk to the Constituent Authority shall forthwith 25 notify in writing to the clerk to the Joint Board the name address and occupation of any person elected in pursuance of this Article to fill a vacancy. members. 10.—(1) An elective member of the Joint Board shall continue Tenure of in office until the expiration of the period for which he was elected office of 30 a member of the Joint Board or until he dies or resigns or ceases to be a member of the Constituent Authority by whom he was elected or otherwise becomes disqualified or until he becomes ex-officio a member of the Joint Board. (2) Any elective member of the Joint Board who ceases to 35 hold office by reason of the expiration of his period of office or by reason of his resignation or disqualification or by ceasing to be a member of the Constituent Authority by whom he was elected shall be re-eligible as a member of the Joint Board if at the time of re-election he is qualified to be so re-elected. 40 Board and 11. Such of the provisions of Section 46 of the Local DisqualificaGovernment Act 1894 as relate to the disqualification for being tion for elected or being a member of the council of a district other membership than a borough and to absence from meetings of any such council of the Joint shall with the necessary modifications extend to disqualification absence from 45 for being elected or being a member of the Joint Board and to meetings. absence from meetings of the Joint Board. A.D. 1928. Saint Asaph Meetings. Chairman. Committees. Appointment and remuneration of officers. Provisional Orders (No. 1). 12.-(1) The first meeting of the Joint Board shall be held at such time and at such place as may be fixed by the Minister. (2) Subsequent meetings of the Joint Board shall be held at such times and places as the Joint Board may appoint and at all meetings of the Joint Board four members shall constitute 5 a quorum. (3) An extraordinary meeting shall be summoned by the clerk to the Joint Board when a requisition for that purpose is addressed to him by the chairman or any three members of the Joint Board. 10 (4) The requisition shall be in writing and no business other than that specified in the requisition shall be transacted at an extraordinary meeting of the Joint Board. (5) Notices of all meetings of the Joint Board shall be delivered or sent by post so as to reach the last known place of 15 abode or business of each member of the Joint Board three clear days before the day of meeting or at such earlier time as the Joint Board may direct. 13. The Joint Board shall from time to time appoint one of their number to be chairman for one year at all meetings at which 20 he is present. 14.-(1) The Joint Board may appoint committees consisting of members of the Joint Board for the exercise of any powers which in the opinion of the Joint Board can be properly exercised by committees but the acts of every such committee 25 shall unless otherwise directed by the Joint Board be submitted to the Joint Board for approval: Provided that a committee so appointed shall not be authorised to borrow money or to issue any precept for contributions or to enter into any contract. (2) The provisions of Part Four of the First Schedule to the Local Government Act 1894 so far as those provisions are applicable shall extend to any committee appointed in pursuance of this Article by the Joint Board. 30 15. (1) The Joint Board shall appoint a treasurer and a 35 clerk and the Joint Board may appoint one or more medical officers who shall be registered medical practitioners and such other officers and servants as they think requisite. (2) The Joint Board may pay their treasurer clerk medical officers and other officers and servants such reasonable remunera- 40 tion as they deem expedient and every such treasurer clerk medical officer and other officer and servant shall be removable by the Joint Board at their pleasure. Provisional Orders (No. 1). 16. The Joint Board shall have exercise perform and be A.D. 1928. subject to all the powers rights duties capacities liabilities and obligations of an urban district council under the enactments in the Public Health Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to 5 this Order and those enactments shall extend to the Joint Board with such modifications as may be necessary to make them ments in the applicable to the Joint Board and to the United District: Provided that Section 258 of the Public Health Act 1875 as applied by this Article shall be modified by the substitution of 10" Constituent Authority" for "local authority" and "the Joint Board" for "such authority." Saint Asaph Second under sections 130 17.-(1) Regulations of the Minister under Section 130 or Regulations Section 134 of the Public Health Act 1875 as extended by any of the other enactment may provide for the execution thereof by the Minister 15 Joint Board in relation to the whole or any part of the United District formed by this Order and if the Joint Board shall be charged with the carrying out of regulations under the Section last-mentioned the Epidemic and other Diseases Prevention Act 1883 shall apply to the Joint Board as that Act applies to a local 20 authority in England. (2) Save as provided in regulations of the Minister under any enactment mentioned in this Article nothing in this Order shall affect any powers or duties exerciseable by or imposed upon any Constituent Authority by regulations of the Minister 25 under any such enactment. and 134 of the Public Health Act 1875. 18. (1) Persons shall be admitted into a hospital provided Mode of by the Joint Board in one of the following modes and not otherwise admission except with the consent of the Constituent Authorities viz. :— into hospitals. 30 (a) By an order of the Joint Board or of a Constituent 35 (b) By an order of a medical officer of health of a Constituent (c) By an order of a medical officer appointed by the Joint (d) By an order of a justice made under the provisions of (2) The board of guardians of any poor law union wholly or in part comprised within the district of the Joint Board may 40 by agreement with the Joint Board provide for the reception into a hospital provided by the Joint Board of persons in receipt of relief from such board of guardians and any such person may be admitted into the hospital in the manner and on the terms prescribed by the agreement. A.D. 1928. Provisional Orders (No. 1). 19.-(1) All the expenses incurred by the Joint Board shall be defrayed out of a common fund to which shall be paid the sums Saint Asaph recovered by the Joint Board from or repaid to the Joint Board by or for patients. Order. Expenses of Joint Board. Calculation and payment of cost of maintenance of patients. (2) To the common fund so far as the same is not provided 5 by the payments aforesaid each Constituent Authority shall contribute in the proportion which the assessable value of each of the Constituent Districts according to the valuation lists in force on the First day of April and the First day of October preceding the issue of the precept of the Joint Board bears to the aggregate 10 of the assessable values of the Constituent Districts according to the same valuation lists. 20.-(1) The cost of maintenance of patients shall be ascertained in accordance with the rules hereinafter set forth namely: 15 (a) Within twenty-one days after the Thirty-first day of March and the Thirtieth day of September in each year the Joint Board shall ascertain the proportionate part of the total cost of the maintenance of the several patients who have been in the hospital during the 20 previous half-year which will represent the average daily cost in respect of each patient; (b) The cost of maintenance of patients shall include all the (2) The clerk to the Joint Board shall within twenty-eight 35 (a) the name and address of the patient; (b) the number of days in the half-year during which the patient has remained in the hospital; and 45 |