Amendments of the Health Commission (Charges) Regulations (ACT)

Regulations 1978 No. 8

Regulations under the Health Commission Ordinance 1975*

I, RALPH JAMES DUNNET HUNT, the Minister of State for Health, hereby make the following Regulations under the Health Commission Ordinance 1975.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of April 1978.

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health

AMENDMENTS OF THE HEALTH COMMISSION (CHARGES)

REGULATIONS!

1. Regulation 5 of the Health Commission (Charges) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) "$1 .50" and sub­ stituting " $2.50 ".

2. After regulation 5 of the Health Commission (Charges) Regu­ lations the following regulation is inserted:

" 5A. (1) In this regulation—

' child' means a person who has not attained the age of 16

years;

' extended-stay resident' means a child who has been admitted to a health services hostel, other than a child who is a short-stay resident;

f Regulations 1975. No. 13 as amended by 1976, No . 18; 1977, Nos. 11, 15. 24 and 2S; and 1978, N o . 7.

' health services hostel' means a hostel, other than the hostel referred to in regulation 5, conducted by the commission as a health services hostel;

' short-stay resident' means a child who has been admitted to a health services hostel for a specific period not exceeding 28 days.

" (2) The prescribed charge, for the purpose of sub-section 74 (1) of the Ordinance, for the accommodation of a person in a health services hostel is—

(a) in the case of an extended-stay resident—$1 per day or part of a day;

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 May 1978.

(b) in the case of a short-stay resident—$2 per day or part of a day; and

(c) in any other case—$4.96 per day or part of a day.

" (3) For the purpose of calculating the amount payable by a per­ son by virtue of sub-regulation ( 2 ) , the day on which a person is discharged from a health services hostel shall not be taken into account.

" (4 ) Where a person who has been admitted to a health services hostel is absent from the hostel for a period not exceeding 3 days, sub- reg jlation (2) applies as if the person had been accommodated in the hostel during the whole of the period.

" (5 ) For the purpose of sub-regulation ( 4 ) , the day on which the absence of a person from a hostel begins and the day on which he returns to the hostel shall together be reckoned as one day.".