Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2007 (WA)

3118 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 10 July 2007

HE:301*

Hospitals and Health Services Act 1927

Hospitals (Services Charges) Amendment

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

Regulations (No. 2) 2007

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Hospitals (Services Charges)
Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2007.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows:

10 July 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3419

3.             The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Hospitals
(Services Charges) Regulations 1984*.

[* Reprint 5 as at 11 August 2006.

For amendments to 28 June 2007 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2006, Table 4, and
Gazette 23 January 2007.]

4.             Schedule 1 amended

(1) Schedule 1 Division 1 item 1 is deleted and the following item
is inserted instead —

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1. Accommodation, maintenance, nursing care and
other services other than in hospital beds subject to
a determination made under regulation 5(2) —
(a) for public in-patients no charge

(b)

for private in-patients —

(i)	in single bed wards (if taken at patient's request)	$484 per day
(ii)	in other wards	$275 per day

(c) for nursing home type patients
(d) for private nursing home type patients

$38.20 per day

$136 per day

(e) for ineligible in-patients

$1 213 per day

(f) for eligible war service veteran in-patients

no charge

(2) Schedule 1 Division 3 item 4(b) is amended by deleting "$130"

and inserting instead —

44 $138 ".

(3) Schedule 1 Division 4 item 6 is amended as follows:

(a)	in paragraph (b) by deleting "$212 per day" and
inserting instead —
" $218 per day ";
(b)
in paragraph (d) by deleting "$1 079 per day" and " $1 146 per day ".

(4) Schedule 1 Division 5 item 7 is amended by deleting "$23.70

per day" and inserting instead —

" $25.25 per day ".

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.