Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1952. No. 11.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HOSPITAL BENEFITS ACT 1951.*

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Hospital Benefits Act 1951.

Dated this thirteenth day of February, 1952.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

Amendments of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospital) Regulations. 

1. After regulation 16 of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospital) Regulations the following regulation is inserted in Part IV.:—

Benefit not payable in certain cases.

“ 16aa. The hospital benefit under this Part shall not be payable in respect of a qualified patient in an approved private hospital which consists of the non-public wards of a public hospital in a State during the period for which the agreement with that State referred to in sub-section (2.) of section 3 of the Hospital Benefits Act 1951 is in force.”.

Additional benefit.

2. Regulation 16h of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospital) Regulations is amended by inserting, after the words “the last preceding Part”, the words “or an agreement referred to in sub-section (2.) of section 3 of the Hospital Benefits Act 1951 ”,

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1952.

  Statutory Rules 1946, No. 2, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, No. 52; 1947, No. 56; 1948, No. 151; 1949, No. 12; 1950, No. 77; and 1951, No. 119.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

6307.—Price 3d. 10/17.12.1951.