[41] Bill 79 Royal Assent (PDF)
Bill PR79 2018
An Act respecting the Kingston Health Sciences Centre
Preamble
On March 31, 2017, Kingston General Hospital and Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph of the Hotel Dieu of Kingston voluntarily integrated by entering into agreements to permit and require Kingston Health Sciences Centre to fulfil the purposes and objects that formerly governed Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital.
The Kingston Health Sciences Centre has applied for special legislation to provide that all gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital, or to University Hospitals Kingston Foundation for the benefit of either of them, shall be used by Kingston Health Sciences Centre for the purposes for which they would have been used had the two hospitals not integrated.
Kingston General Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hospital and Kingston Health Sciences Centre are charitable corporations without share capital. Kingston Health Sciences Centre operates the public hospital sites formerly operated by Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital. University Hospitals Kingston Foundation is a charitable corporation established to raise and administer funds for Kingston General Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hospital and Providence Care Centre.
It is appropriate to grant the application.
Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:
Definitions
1 In this Act,
"Foundation" means the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation;
"Hotel Dieu Hospital" means the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph of the Hotel Dieu of Kingston.
Gifts, etc., to Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital
2 All gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital shall be deemed to be gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
Gifts, etc., to Foundation for benefit of Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital
3 All gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to the Foundation for the benefit of Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital shall be deemed to be gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to the Foundation for the benefit of Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
Use of gifts, etc.
4 All gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to or for the benefit of Kingston General Hospital or Hotel Dieu Hospital that are deemed under section 2 or 3 to be gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to or for the benefit of Kingston Health Sciences Centre, shall, subject to any restrictions or directions set out in the terms of any such gift, trust, bequest, devise or grant of property regarding the purposes for which it may be used,
(a) in the case of gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to or for the benefit of Kingston General Hospital, be used by Kingston Health Sciences Centre solely for the purposes set out in the letters patent of Kingston General Hospital in effect on March 31, 2017; and
(b) in the case of gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants of property to or for the benefit of Hotel Dieu Hospital, be used by Kingston Health Sciences Centre solely for the purposes set out in the letters patent of Hotel Dieu Hospital in effect on March 31, 2017 and in a manner consistent with the obligations of a Hospital affiliated with a religious organization and obligated to provide health care in a manner consistent with the Roman Catholic religion, including, without limitation, as more particularly described in the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada's Health Ethics Guide, as amended from time to time.
Application
5 The provisions of this Act apply whether the will, deed or other document by which the gift, trust, bequest, devise or grant of property is made, is made before or after the day this Act comes into force.
Commencement
6 This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
Short title
7 The short title of this Act is the Kingston Health Sciences Centre Act, 2018.