Amendments of the Canberra Community Hospital (Charges) Regulations (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Regulations 1958. No. 4.

Regulations under the Canberra Community Hospital

Ordinance 1938-1958.*

I DONALD ALASTAIR CAMERON, the Minister of State for Health, Hospital Ordinance 1938-1958, hereby make the following Regulations.

, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Canberra Community

Dated this eighteenth day of March, 1958.

DONALD A. CAMERON

Minister of State for Health.

AMENDMENTS OF THE CANBERRA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (CHARGES)

REGULTIONS.I

tions is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead m-Pa«ients- 1. Regulation 5 of the Canberra Community Hospital (Charges) Regula- charges for

the following sub-regulation:—

" (2.) In this regulation, ' treatment' does not include the provision of

ambulance facilities.".

2. After regulation 6 of the Canberra Community Hospital (Charges)

Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

4915/57.—PRICE 3D.

" 6A. Where, as part of the treatment of an in-patient or an out-patient, charges for

the Board provides a surgical appliance for use by the patient and— surgical

. appliances.

(a) the surgical appliance has been specially made for use by the

patient; or

(b) the Board considers that it is unlikely that the surgical appliance

will be used by more than the" one patient,

the charge for the provision of the surgical appliance is the actual amount

expended by the Board in obtaining the appliance.".

3. Regulation 10 of the Canberra Community Hospital (Charges) Regu-

lations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

" 10.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, the charge for the provision of an Ambulance

ambulance vehicle shall be an amount of Twelve shillings and sixpence. charges.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th March, 1958.

t Regulations 1952, No. 12, as amended by Regulations 1953, No. 16; 1954, No. 13; 1955,

No. 6; and 1956, No. 8.

" (2.) The charge for the provision of an ambulance vehicle which is required to travel outside the Territory for the purpose for which it is provided shall be an amount calculated at the rate of One shilling and six- pence for each mile or part of a mile necessarily travelled by the ambulance from its station for that purpose and in returning to its station.

" (3.) Where, at the request of a person or organization conducting a sporting event or other public function, an ambulance vehicle is made available on any day at the event or function, the charge for making the vehicle available is—

(a) if the period for which the ambulance vehicle is made available on the day does not exceed four hours—an amount of Four pounds ten shillings; or

(b) if the period for which the ambulance vehicle is made available

on the day exceeds four hours—an amount of Nine pounds.".

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.