National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 208

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 19531

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Health Act  1953.

 Dated this twenty-seventh day of September 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health

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AMENDMENT OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH

REGULATIONS2

 After regulation 3A of the National Health Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Prescribed benefits for purposes of definition of “basic hospital benefits table” or “basic table” in sub-section 4 (1) of the Act

• “3B.

  For the purposes of the definition of ‘basic hospital benefits table’ or ‘basic table’ in sub‑section 4 (1) of the Act, in respect of professional services rendered to persons as in‑patients of a hospital referred to in section 120D of the Repatriation Act 1920 by medical practitioners employed by or under arrangements made by, the hospital, benefits equal to the charges made by the hospital for the provision of those services to patients who are not entitled to receive compensation or damages in respect of the cost of those services are prescribed.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 October 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1954 No. 35 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the National Health Regulations see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 59 and see also