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

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. 56.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HOSPITAL BENEFITS ACT 1945.*

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 1945.

Dated this Fourteen day of May , 1947.

W.J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(sgd) N. E. McKENNA

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations.

Definitions.

1.—(1.) Regulation 3 of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “private hospital” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘private hospital’ means any premises, registered or licensed, or exempted from registration or from obtaining a licence, under or by the law of any State or of the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory as a private hospital, in which patients are received and lodged for hospital treatment for which a charge is made, or any part of any such premises, and includes any premises approved by the Director-General as a private hospital, in which patients are received and lodged for hospital treatment for which a charge is made, or any part of any such premises, but does not include any mental hospital or home, or any convalescent home, benevolent home, infirmary, home for the aged or orphanage not giving hospital treatment, or any part of any such premises,”.

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the seventeenth day of January, 1946.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1947.

  Statutory Rules 1946, No. 2, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, No. 52.

7757.—Price 3d.  10/27.3.1947.

 

Benefits payable.

2. Regulation 13 of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the following proviso:—

“Provided that, where the law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth provides for the payment of fees or expenses charged for hospital treatment, the amount of benefit payable in accordance with the preceding provisions of this sub-regulation shall not exceed the amount remaining after deducting the amount payable under the law of the State or Territory from the full amount of the fees or expenses incurred.”.

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