PART VII.

Miscellaneous.

65. —(1) The Board shall furnish advice to the Minister on any matter, relating to nursing, on which he has requested the advice of the Board.

(2) The Board may furnish to the Minister such advice and reports relating to nursing as they think fit.

(3) The Board may, with the consent of the Minister, advise a health authority on the organisation of nursing services within the functional area of the health authority.

66. —The Board may, and if so required by the Minister shall, conduct, or cause to be conducted, research into matters relating to the organisation or practice of nursing or the training of nurses.

67. —(1) The Board may accept gifts of money, land or other property upon such trusts and conditions, if any, as may be specified by the donor.

(2) The Board shall not accept a gift if the conditions attached by the donor to its acceptance are inconsistent with the functions of the Board.

68. —(1) The Act of 1944 is hereby amended as follows:—

(a) the references in section 26, in subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 27, in subsections (1) and (2) of section 32, the first three references in subsection (3) of section 32, the second reference in section 33, and the reference in section 34, to the Central Midwives Board shall be construed as references to the Committee established by this Act;

(b) the references, in subsections (5) and (6) of section 27, in section 30, in section 31, the last reference in subsection (3) of section 32, the first reference in section 33, and the references in sections 43, 44, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 58, 59, and 62, to the Central Midwives Board shall be construed as references to the Board established by this Act;

(c) the references to the roll of midwives shall be construed as references to the midwives division; and

(d) the references to rules made under the Act of 1944 shall be construed as references to rules made under section 21 of this Act.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the establishment date.

(3) The Minister shall not give any approval to rules made for the purposes of section 43 of the Act of 1944 save after consultation with the Medical Registration Council constituted by the Medical Practitioners Act, 1927 (No. 25 of 1927), and it shall be the duty of the Board to communicate to the Medical Registration Council any rules proposed to be made for the purposes of that section.