Health Services Act 1997

A statutory health corporation may make and enter into contracts or agreements with any person for the performance of services, or for the supply of goods, plant, machinery or material, by that person with respect to the exercise by the statutory health corporation of its functions conferred or imposed by or under this or any other Act.

A statutory health corporation may also, with the approval of the relevant authority, make and enter into contracts or agreements with any person for the provision of any service by the statutory health corporation to that person.

Any contract or agreement under this section is taken, for the purposes of the Constitution Act 1902, to be a contract or agreement for or on account of the Public Service of New South Wales.

In this section, relevant authority means—

in relation to a board governed health corporation, the Minister, and

in relation to a chief executive governed health corporation or specialty network governed health corporation, the Health Secretary.