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

Regulations 1977 No. 28

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 first day of November 1977.

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health

AMENDMENTS OF THE HEALTH COMMISSION (CHARGES)

REGULATIONS!

1. Regulation 2 of the Health Commission (Charges) Regulations is amended—

(a)	by omitting " the symbol ' (OP) '" from the definition of " pathology service " and substituting " the symbol' (OP) ' or the symbol'(HP) " ' ; and
(b)	by omitting " 1 October 1977" from the definition of " standard medical benefits table" and substituting " 1 November 1977".

2. Regulation 6B of the Health Commission (Charges) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (3) (d) " a person who is a patient at a hospital conducted by the Commission, being ".

t Regulations 1975, No . 13 as amended by Regulations 1976. N o . 18; and 1977, Nos . 11, 15 and 24.

3. (1) The Health Commission (Charges) Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, do not apply in relation to a professional service provided by the Commission where any act forming part of the pro­ vision of that service was done before the commencement of these Regulations.

(2) Where any act forming part of the provision of a professional service was done before the commencement of these Regulations, the Health Commission (Charges) Regulations continue to apply in relation to that service as they would have applied if these Regulations bad not been made.

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 November 1977.

(3) In this regulation, " professional service " has the same meaning as in the Health Commission (Charges) Regulations, as amended by these Regulations.