15.—(1) A hospital board shall not perform any of the functions assigned to the Council.
(2) After the expiration of the period of four years beginning on the establishment day, a hospital board shall not incur expenditure save within the limits of an estimate or an amended estimate approved of by the Council.
(3) Moneys collected by a hospital board by public appeal shall not be used by the board for capital purposes without the consent of the Council.
(4) Subject to the foregoing subsections of this section, a hospital board shall perform all the functions which, immediately before the establishment day, were performable by the governing body of the hospital of the board.
