National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1968.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Health Act 1953-1968.

Dated this ninth day of June, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) A. J. FORBES

Minister of State for Health.

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Amendments of the National Health Regulations 

1. Regulation 9 of the National Health Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Period of hospital treatment.

“9. For the purposes of this Part, the day of admission and the day of discharge or death of a qualified hospital patient shall be counted as one day.”.

Fees.

2. Regulation 25 of the National Health Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “One dollar seventy cents” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “One dollar eighty-five cents”; and

(b) by omitting the words “Two dollars fifteen cents” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Two dollars thirty-five cents.”

Application.

3. The amendments made by the last preceding regulation apply to and in relation to medical services rendered by a medical practitioner on and after the first day of May, 1969.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1969

  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; and 1967, No. 86.

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