This Act may be cited as the Nurses and Midwives Registration Amendment Act, 1930, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The Board constituted under the principal Act may, in accordance with this section, approve as a training-school for nurses any hospital maintained by a Hospital Board under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, or any private hospital licensed under Part III of that Act, or any institution (in this Act referred to as a private charitable institution) maintained otherwise than by a Hospital Board and in respect of which the Nurses and Midwives Registration Board is satisfied that its object or one of its principal objects is the reception and relief, either without charge or for such charge as is mentioned in subsection three hereof, of persons requiring medical or surgical treatment or suffering from disease.

The approval of any public hospital as a training-school for nurses in accordance with this section may, in the discretion of the Board, be so limited that only such subjects of an approved course of instruction in theoretical and practical nursing as the Board may specify may be taken at such training-school, but no private hospital or private charitable institution shall be approved as a training-school for nurses unless satisfactory provision is made for a complete course of instruction in theoretical and practical nursing being given therein.

No private hospital or private charitable institution shall be approved as a training-school for nurses as aforesaid except on application made by the licensee of such private hospital or the controlling authority of such private charitable institution, as the case may be, nor unless provision is made therein for not less than forty beds, to be available at all times for occupation by patients receiving nursing and hospital service without charge or for a charge the daily rate of which does not exceed the actual daily cost of rendering such service, and also does not exceed the daily charge for the time being for in-patients in the nearest public hospital in the hospital district in which such private hospital or private charitable institution is situated.

The Board shall not exercise the authority conferred by this section in respect of any private hospital or private charitable institution unless and until it is satisfied that the standard of training and instruction in theoretical and practical nursing to be given therein will not be lower in any respect than the standard of training and instruction afforded at those public hospitals that are then approved as complete training-schools for nurses.

The approval of any private hospital or private charitable institution as a training-school for nurses may be forthwith revoked by the Board if the daily average number of beds occupied in any period of twelve months by patients of the classes referred to in subsection three hereof falls below thirty, or if the Board is satisfied, after reasonable investigation and inquiry, that the standard of training and instruction in such private hospital or private charitable institution is below the standard of training and instruction then required by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales as a condition for the admission to the English Nurses Register of nurses trained and registered in New Zealand.

If the licensee of any private hospital or the controlling authority of any private charitable institution is aggrieved by the refusal of the Board to approve as a training-school for nurses any private hospital or private charitable institution, as the case may be, or is aggrieved by the revocation by the Board of its approval of any such private hospital or private charitable institution as a training-school for nurses, such licensee or controlling authority may appeal to a Judge of the Supreme Court in Chambers against such refusal or revocation.

On the hearing of any such appeal the Judge shall make such order therein as he thinks proper, and the Board shall be bound by the terms of such order.

In so far as the procedure on appeals under this section is not provided for by rules of the Supreme Court, regulations in relation to such appeals may be made under the authority of section twenty-nine of the principal Act.

Section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the definition of the term “hospital”.

Section eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “hospitals” in paragraph (6), the words “or other institutions”.

Subsection two of section ten of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “one or more hospitals”, the words “or other institutions”; and also by inserting, after the words “provided at a hospital”, the words “or other institution”.

Section twenty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “hospital” in paragraph (d), the words “or other institution”.

Subsection two of section four of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

Section twenty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting after paragraph (i) the following new paragraph:—