National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 59

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT

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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 this fifth day of April 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health

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AMENDMENTS OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH

REGULATIONS2

1Accommodation allowance in respect of approved patients

 Regulation 7 of the National Health Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1), paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-regulation (2), paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-regulation (3) and paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) “is satisfied” and substituting “has certified in writing under his hand”.

2Accommodation allowance in respect of approved attendants and approved escorts

 Regulation 8 of the National Health Regulations is amended–

• (a)

  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) “is satisfied” and substituting “has certified in writing under his hand”; and

• (b)

  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (4) “–the amount equal to the sum of travel allowance and accommodation allowance (if any) that would, in the opinion of the Permanent Head, have been payable under Part III of the Act in respect of the person if the person had undertaken those journeys” and substituting “and the Permanent Head has certified in writing under his hand that travel allowance or accommodation allowance of an amount specified in the certificate would have been payable under Part III of the Act in respect of the person if the person had undertaken those journeys-the amount, or the total of the amounts, specified in the certificate”.

3Accommodation allowance in respect of certain escorts

 Regulation 9 of the National Health Regulations is amended–

• (a)

  by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) “is satisfied” and substituting “has certified in writing under his hand”; and

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) “–the amount equal to the sum of travel allowance and accommodation allowance (if any) that would, in the opinion of the Permanent Head, have been payable under Part III of the Act in respect of the person if the person had undertaken those journeys” and substituting “and the Permanent Head has certified in writing under his hand that travel allowance or accommodation allowance of an amount specified in the certificate would have been payable under Part III of the Act in respect of the person if the person had undertaken those journeys-the amount, or the total of the amounts, specified in the certificate”.

4 After Regulation 11 of the National Health Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Application for review of decisions under Part II

• “12.

  (1) An application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for the review of any decision of the Permanent Head made for the purposes of a provision of this Part.

 “(2) In sub-regulation (1), ‘decision’ has the same meaning as in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 April 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1954 No. 35 as amended by Statutory Rules 1957 No. 71; 1958 No. 63; 1962 Nos. 55, 70 and 113; 1965 Nos. 17, 94 and 185; 1966 No. 99; 1967 No. 86; 1969 Nos. 91 and 220; 1970 Nos. 70 and 166; 1971 Nos. 28, 76, 103 and 138; 1972 No. 79; 1973 Nos. 17, 75, 111, 221, 225 and 267; 1974 Nos. 52, 104, 105, 113 and 263; 1975 Nos. 14, 49, 66, 100, 124, 165 and 207; 1976 Nos. 113, 217 and 227; 1977 Nos. 11, 34, 51 and 112; and 1978 Nos. 66, 178, 208 and 266.