Health Insurance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
REGULATION UNDER THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice
of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under
the
Dated this twenty-first day of September, 1978.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Health
AMENDMENTS OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE REGULATIONS
Regulation 11 of the Health Insurance Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:
“ (2) Hospital benefits are not payable under sub-regulation (1) in respect of the care and treatment of a person in a hospital unless—
(a) the person was an in-patient of the hospital; and
(b) the care and treatment was provided by, or under the supervision of, a prescribed person or an obstetric nurse.”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (7) “ a medical practitioner, legally qualified to practise as such in the place in which the person receives that care and treatment” and substituting “a prescribed person ”;
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Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1975, No. 80 as amended by Statutory Rules 1975, Nos. 113, 125 and 135 (commenced 3 July 1975; disallowed 4 September 1975); 1976, Nos. 202, 214 and 215; 1977, Nos. 26 and 44; and 1978 No. 95.
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(c) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (8) “ a medical practitioner or an obstetric nurse ” and substituting “ the prescribed person or obstetric nurse ”; and.
(d) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (11) the following definition:
“ ‘ prescribed person ’, in relation to a person who receives care and treatment in a hospital at a place outside Australia, means a person authorized to practise as a medical practitioner under the law of that place, not being a person in respect of whom a declaration under sub-section 21 (3a) of the Act is in force.”.
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