Military Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 2191

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Military Financial Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903.

Dated 9 September 1982.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Defence

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Interpretation of this Part

1. Regulation 259 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting “treatment and maintenance” from the definition of “medical treatment” and substituting “transport in an ambulance, maintenance and accommodation”; and

(b) by inserting after the definition of “medical treatment” the following definition:

“ ‘Repatriation hospital’ means a hospital established, controlled or administered by the Repatriation Commission under the Repatriation Act 1920;”.

Members having claims for damages—recovery of certain costs

2. Regulation 262 of the Military Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) all words after “pay to the Commonwealth” and substituting “an amount, fixed by the Minister, not exceeding—

(c) in respect of medical treatment or dental treatment provided for the member when he was an in-patient at a service or

Repatriation hospital in a State referred to in Schedule 1—an amount calculated in accordance with Schedule 1 in respect of each day on which the member was provided with that treatment; or

(d) in respect of any other medical or dental treatment—the expense incurred by the Commonwealth for the treatment”;

and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:

“(3) In sub-regulation (1), the references to a member, other than the first of those references, shall be read as including a reference to a person—

(a) who, when he was a member, was provided under this Part, other than regulation 261, with medical treatment or dental treatment at the expense of the Commonwealth; and

(b) who has ceased to be a member.

“(4) For the purpose of calculating an amount referred to in paragraph (1) (c), the day on which a member enters a hospital as an in-patient and the day on which he ceases to be an in-patient of the hospital shall be counted together as one day.”.

Schedule 1

3. The Military Financial Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE 1

CHARGE FOR EACH DAY ON WHICH MEMBER WAS IN-PATIENT AT A SERVICE OR REPATRIATION HOSPITAL IN A STATE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7	Column 8
Item	Period when treatment was provided	Hospital in New South Wales	Hospital in Victoria	Hospital in Queensland	Hospital in South Australia	Hospital in Western Australia		Hospital in Tasmania
$	$	$	$	$		$
1	1 July 1975 to 30 June 1976	72.04	87.86	66.71	74.04	86.61		68.63
2	1 July 1976 to 30 June 1977	88.07	121.50	82.25	90.18	82.08		82.70
3	1 July 1977 to 30 June 1978	112.84	141.50	100.12	108.65	100.06		93.95
4	1 July 1978 to 30 June 1979	136.22	134.92	116.02	122.27	117.96		102.41
5	1 July 1979 to 30 June 1980	144.04	142.07	125.26	132.52	124.65		113.60
6	1 July 1980 to 30 June 1981	157.66	162.48	136.83	145.45	134.60		128.68
7	From 1 July 1981	174.50	188.65	156.62	166.46	156.70		162.08

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 September 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1966 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 2 and see also