National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 3221

 

National Health 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 National Health Act 1953.

Dated 26 October 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

(sgd) Neal Blewett

Minister of State for Health

 

Heading to Part III

1. The National Health Regulations are amended by omitting the heading to Part III and substituting the following heading:

“PART III—REGISTRATION OF HEALTH BENEFITS ORGANIZATIONS”

2. The National Health Regulations are amended by repealing regulation 19 and substituting the following regulation:

Application for registration as registered health benefits organization

“19. (1) An application for registration as a registered health benefits organization shall be lodged with the Secretary and shall be in accordance with the form authorized for the purposes of this regulation.

“(2) Subject to this regulation, an organization shall furnish to the Secretary with its application for registration—

(a) a copy of the instrument constituting the organization;

(b) a copy of the articles of association or rules of the organization;

 

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(c) a statement setting out the estimated assets and liabilities of the health benefits fund of the organization at the proposed date of commencement of the operation of the organization as a registered organization;

(d) a statement setting out the estimated income and expenditure of the health benefits fund of the organization for the first period of 12 months of the operation of the organization as a registered organization and a statement setting out its estimated assets and liabilities at the end of that period;

(e) a statement showing the estimated number of contributors to the health benefits fund of the organization at the end of the period of 12 months referred to in paragraph (d);

(f) a statement showing the ratio that the estimated amount of the management and administrative expenses in respect of the conduct of the health benefits fund of the organization bears to the estimated amount of contributions to that fund;

(g) a statement showing particulars of the tables or classes of benefits provided by the organization and the contributions for, and the amount of, those benefits; and

(h) where the organization carried on any business prior to the date of application for registration and made any report to all or any of its members within the period of 12 months immediately preceding the date of the application—a copy of that report.

“(3) The person who signs the application for registration on behalf of the organization shall certify in writing—

(a) that the copies of documents furnished for the purposes of the application are true and correct copies of those documents; and

(b) that—

(i) the information contained in the statements furnished under sub-regulation (2), other than the estimates referred to in sub-paragraph (ii), is true and correct; and

(ii) in relation to the estimates furnished in pursuance of paragraphs 2 (c), (d), (e) and (f), that those estimates have been prepared on the basis of information that is true and correct.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 November 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1954 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1984 No. 66 and see also Statutory Rules 1984 Nos. 66, 161, 200 and 308.

 

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