Hospital Benefits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1953. No. 96.

 

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 twenty sixth day of November, 1953.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Hospital Benefits Regulations.

1. Regulation 37 of the Hospital Benefits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Registration.

“37.—(1.) The Minister may, after taking into account the report of the Committee, register the organization subject to such terms and conditions (if any) as he thinks fit or refuse to register the organization.

“(2.) The Director-General shall furnish to each applicant organization notification in writing of its registration and the terms and conditions (if any) subject to which the organization is registered or of the refusal to register the organization, as the case requires.

“(3.) After the registration of an organization the Minister may, upon a recommendation by the Committee—

(a) where the registration of the organization was not made subject to terms and conditions—impose terms and conditions subject to which its registration is to have effect; or

(b) where the organization was registered subject to terms and conditions—

(i) vary or revoke any or all of those terms and conditions; or

(ii) impose terms and conditions additional to those terms and conditions,

and the terms and conditions as so imposed, altered or added to from time to time shall be deemed to be the terms and conditions subject to which the organization is registered.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1953.

  Statutory Rules 1952, No. 72, as amended by Statutory Rules 1953, No. 76.

4804.—Price 3d. 9/30.10.1953.

Cancellation or suspension of registration.

2. Regulation 49 of the Hospital Benefits Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in their stead the following word and paragraph:—

“or (b) the Minister has reason to believe that—

(i) the organization has failed to comply with the terms and conditions subject to which the organization is registered; or

(ii) the organization has contravened, or failed to comply with, a provision of these Regulations.”.

 

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