New Zealand Legislation: Acts

2A Purposes of this Act

• The purposes of this Act are as follows:

  • (a) to provide for assets, liabilities, or functions within the public health and disability sector to be transferred to the Crown or to certain specified bodies within that sector:

  • (b) to provide for the effect and the consequences of—

    • (i) transfers, in accordance with this Act, of assets, liabilities, or functions within the public health and disability sector:

    • (ii) sales or other dispositions of land by DHBs:

  • (c) to permit DHBs, subject to specified conditions, to sell or dispose of land that is subject to trusts or certain other restrictions.

  Section 2A: inserted, on 1 January 2001, by section 6 of the Health Sector (Transfers) Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 92).