Hospital Tax Regulations (ACT)

THE TERRITORY FOR TEE SEAT

OE GOVERNMENT.',

Regulations under the Hospital Tax Ordinances 1933.

T OHAELES WILLIAM GLANAN MARR, Minister of State for X, • Health, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Hospital Tax Ordinances 1933, hereby, make the following Regulations to come into operation on and from the date-of the commencement of the Hospital Tax Ordinance 1933.

Dated this fourteenth day of March, 1933.

• C.'W. C. MARR

Minister of State for Health.

• " 'HOSPITAL TAX.REGULATIONS.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Hospital Tax Regulations, short titio..

2.   In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears— Definition. " the Ordinance " moans the Hospital- Tax Ordinances 1933, as

amended from time to time.

paragraph (c) of sub-section. ( I ) ' of section eight of the, Ordinance shall omPloyecs- 3.. The statement required to be furnished under the provisions of statement as to

be in accordance with Form A in the Schedule to these Regulations or

to the like effect. . . . .

4.—(1.) The.'return required to be furnished in accordance withiformof the provisions of sub-section (1) of section nine of the Ordinance shall' Scorns?' be.in accordance with Form B in the Schedule to these Regulations or

to' the like effect,, and shall be lodged with the Commissioner of Taxation at his office in the Commonwealth Offices, ^West Block, il?

• Canberra. •. • - . ' • •

(2.) The return to be furnished in respect of income for the financial year ending on the'thirtieth day of Junepl932, shall be lodged oh or before the thirty-first day of March, 1933j and the return in respect of the income for each succeeding financial yea'r shall be lodged on or hefore the thirty-first day of July next after the close of that

financial year. = - • ' ' • •

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•5. Every person who has given an address for service and who change of

subsequently changes his address shall, within one month after the address,

change, give to. the Commissioner .notice in writing of his new address.

Patients occupying beds in community Wards—Two guineas per

into, or maintained by, or who -has received relief from, the Hospital charge8, 6. Every in-patient and every out-patient who has been admitted Hospital

shall be liable to pay the actual cost thereof or such sum as is deter- mined in accordance with the following scale of charges, whichever is

the lower:— •

A^General-in-patient charge's—	•
•	• week j • and, in addition, the' cost of all medications. Patients occupying beds in community • wards—Three guineas

Patients occupying 'beds in private wards—Four guineas per • Patients occupying beds in'publio wards—Two guineas per week.

B.—Obstetric oases—. " : , • ' . . . •

Patients occupying' beds in private rooms—Four guineas; and,

in addition, the cost of all medications and laundry services.

Patients occupying beds in community wards—Three guineas; ' .

and,, in addition, the cost of all medications •'and laundry

services. , ' •

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C.—Obstetric waiting patients— • . . .

Patients occupying beds in private wards—Three guineas per

week. - - .

...-. D.—Patients,-isolated in infectious diseases blocks—One guinea per

'_ (•' •'• week; . .. . . ;

E.—Qeneral charges—

(i) For all major operations and for the use of the theatre necessitating the attendance of more than one nurse and the sterilization-iiof instruments—

(a) Patients ""occupying beds in private rooms or in

-. . _"• , community wards—One guinea; .and . .,'•'

'"• - ' (&) Patients' occupying beds in" public wards—-Ten

- . - , . , .:. shillings and sixpence,

(ii) For minor, operations and treatment by instrumentation in • • (a) .Patients occupying beds in private rooms or in community wards—Ten shillings and sixpence for the first occasion of use and Five shillings for each subsequent occasion of use;

.• •:  the operating theatre or special room—

(b) Patients occupying beds in public wards—Two-

shillings and sixpence for each occasion of use;

- and

(c) Patients not occupying' beds shall be charged at

the following rat.es in the Out-patients' Depart-

ment':— ^

For the- use of the Out-patients' Theatre (which includes the use of the Theatre for minor operation's, dressings under antesthetic, and- the use of Hospital instruments, apparatus

;

'""• or power) the following charges shall be

• • made:— • .• \

s. d.

' Operation under general araes-

"; ' • ' thetic . . . . . . . . . 10 6;

Operation under local anses- •

thetic	s	0;
All minor operations	5	0;

' Instrumentation	examination	6	0;
Diathermy .	5	0 ; •

Ionization	. . .	2	6;
Sutures	2	6; and
Dressings	1.	0. .

(iii) Sera, vaccines, biological extracts and hypodermic injections

—'The actual cost of same to the Hospital shall be paid

. . . by all patients. . •

(iv) Examinations at the Commonwealth Health Laboratory—
The charges indicated in schedules issued from time to.

time by, the Commonwealth Department of Health shall

be paid by all patients. • •

(v) Radiographic examinations—In-patients—

(a) Patients occupying beds in" private wards—Two

• ' guineas;

(&) Patients occupying beds in public wards—One

• ..; . . guinea:;

' • • ' (c) Radiographic examinations of alimentary' tract by

• . opaque meals— .

:

(i) Patients in private wards—Three guineas;

and

(ii)- Patients in- public wards—.Two guineas.

(vi) Radiographic examinations—Out-patients— c*

(a) Ordinary . radiographic examinations—One guinea;

and . •

(&) Radiographie^examinations of alimentary tract by

opaque meals—-Two guineas,

(vii) The cost of medications for bo.th in-patients and out-patients

shall "be the actual cost to-the Hospital.

Ambulance	?• ^ - e chai'ge, f or the removal -of any person to or f rom the
charges.	Hospi ta l by ambulance shall be-a t the ra te of One shilling per mile or port ion of a mi l e . reckoned from the Ambulance Depot to place where the person is placed in the ambulance, thence t o . t h e Hospi ta l '
and back to the Ambulance Depot, together with a fee of one shilling
per quarter of .an hour wai t ing t i m e : • •.

Provided that the minimum charge under this regulation shall be

Five shillings or the actual cost of removal, whichever is the lower.

"EHE SCHEDULE.

FORM A. "

TnE TERRITORY FOR Tire SEAT OF' GOVERNMENT.

Hospital Tom Ordinances 1933.

STATEMENT OF EMPLOYEES WHO RECEIVED SALARY OR WAGES
(INCLUDING VALUE (a) OF ANY :BOARD, LODGING OR RATIONS

ALLOWED TO HIM) AT A RATE OF NOT LESS THAN TWO POUNDS

(£2)	P E R	W E E K .	'	' " ' '
Y 3 ' "

Week ended >.'.

Name of Employee. Residential Address. • - Tax Stamp.

L

..'it:

I of declare

that, the par t iculars shown above are t rue and correct in every part icular .

Date Signature of employer

v Occupation -

Address for Service of Notices

(a) The value of board and lodging is fixed by the Ordinance as follows:—

Board	. .	. .	. .	. .	15s.	per. week.
Lodging	. . _	. .	. . ' - . .	. .	5s. per	week.

This statement must be prepared each week and delivered personally or by post to the Commissioner of Taxation, West Block, CanberVa, before noon on the Wednesday following the date on which any paymeiit of salary or wages to any person liable for payment of Hospi ta l Tax is made.

FORM B.

T H E TERRITORY FOR THE S E A T OF GOVERNMENT.

Hospital Too: Ordinances 1033. -•

RETURN OP INCOME OP T H E FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 3 0 T H J U N E ,

(Form of r e tu rn to be made for purposes of Ordinance No. 2 of 1933 for

the imposition of a Hospital Tax and for other purposes, by all persons, who -. in any financial year resided wi thin the Terr i tory and who dur ing the preceding, financial year so resided for a period or- periods aggregating 6 months, atid whoso income, during t h a t financial year, whether from sources within or outside t he Terr i tory, amounted to hot less t h a n One Hundred and Four Pounds.)

Name in full—

Surname (in BLOCK LETTEItS).- Christian Names.

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Occupation	Residing	a t .
Postal address for service of notices.
I,	-	t he person making th is

return, declare t h a t the to ta l amount of the income which was derived by mo during the financial year ended, th i r t ie th day: of June , 19 , from all sources whether within or outside* the Terri tory for ' t l ie Seat of Government amounted

to the sum of isfUbi"

pounds. (£ ) . .. i fc, . - •

Dated this	, •	day of
193	.	(

* Usual Signature

The person making th is r e tu rn is hereby required to s ta te below whether ' or not he or she lodged with t he Commissioner of Taxation a r e tu rn for the purposes of the Income Toco Assessment Act 1922-1932, of all income derived by him or her dur ing the financial year ended 30th June , 19

fReturn lodged a t	(Place) . . . :	,(
Return not lodged.

• " Outside the Territory " means '* within the Commonwealth but outside the Territory for the Seat of Government. "

t Strike out whichever is inapplicable.