PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Public Health (Amendment) Act 1998. 

No. 22 of 1998.
Certified on: 6.8.98

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Interpretation (Amendment of Section 1).
2. Repeal of Section 4.
3. Repeal of Section 5.
4. Assistant Local Medical Authorities (Amendment of Section 7).

AN ACT
entitled
Public Health (Amendment) Act 1998,
Being an Act to amend the Public Health Act (Chapter 226),
MADE by the National Parliament to come into operation in accordance with a notice in the National Gazette by the Head of State, acting with, and in accordance with, the advice of the Minister.
1	INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1). 
Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended by repealing the definition of "Local Medical Authority" and replacing it with the following:
	"'Local Medical Authority' means a Local Medical Authority appointed under the National Health Administration Act 1997;".
2	REPEAL OF SECTION 4.
Section 4 of the Principal Act is repealed.
3	REPEAL OF SECTION 5.
Section 5 of the Principal Act is repealed.
4	ASSISTANT LOCAL MEDICAL AUTHORITIES (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 7). 
Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended -
	(a) in line 1, by inserting before the words "the Minister" the symbols and figure "(1)"; and
	(b) by adding the following new Subsection:-
	"(2) An Assistant Local Medical Authority appointed under Subsection (i) -
	(a) is answerable to, and subject to the directions of, the Local Medical Authority; and
	(b) has such powers and functions as are delegated to him under this Act by the Local Medical Authority.".
I certify that the above is a fair print of Public Health (Amendment) Act 1998 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament
I hereby certify that the Public Health (Amendment) Act 1998 was made by the National Parliament on 24 June 1998.
Speaker of the National Parliament.