3 ACT To provide for the establishment of the Health Service Board and its functions; to constitute the Health Service and to provide for its administration and the conditions of service of its members; to provide for the transfer of persons engaged in public health service delivery from the Public Service to the Health Service; to make consequential amendments to the Interpretation Act [Chapter 1:01]; Health Professions Act [Chapter 27:19]; Medical Services Act No. 27 of 1998; and Public Health Act [Chapter 15:09]; to repeal the Parirenyatwa Hospitals Act [Chapter 15:07]; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. ENACTED by the President and the Parliament of Zimbabwe. PART I PRELIMINARY 1 Short title and date of commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Health Service Act [Chapter 15:16]. (2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the President by statutory instrument. 2 Interpretation In this Act⎯ “Board” means the Health Service Board established in terms of section 3; “central hospital” means any hospital— (a) listed in Part I of the First Schedule; or (b) designated by the Minister by notice in a statutory instrument amending Part I of the First Schedule;