HOSPITAL
BENEFITS.
No.
34 of 1947.
An Act to amend the Hospital Benefits Act 1945.
[Assented to 12th June, 1947.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and
the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Hospital Benefits Act 1947.
(2.) The Hospital
Benefits Act 1945, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Hospital Benefits Act 1945-1947.
Commencement.
2.This
Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Patients
in private hospitals or in hospitals outside Australia.
3.Section
four of the Hospital Benefits Act 1945
is amended by omitting the words “patients in private hospitals as defined by
the regulations” and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs:—
“(a)
patients in private hospitals as defined by the regulations; and
(b)persons who are residents of
Australia, as defined by the regulations, and who are temporarily absent from
Australia, and such spouses, children or other dependants of any such residents
of Australia as are prescribed.”.
Regulations.
4.Section
eight of the Hospital Benefits Act 1945
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
“(2.) Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph
(b