National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

 

1958. No. 63.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1957.*

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 1953-1957.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of September, 1958.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the National Health Regulations. 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, 1958.

Parts.

2. Regulation 2 of the National Health Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the words—

“Part VI.—Prescribed Fees and Allowances—Pensioner Medical Service (Regulations 25-26).”.

3. After Part V. of the National Health Regulations the following Part is inserted:—

“Part VI.—Prescribed Fees and Allowances—Pensioner Medical Service.

Fees.

“25. For the purposes of paragraph (b)of sub-section (2.) of section 32 of the Act, the prescribed fees are—

(a) for a medical service rendered by a medical practitioner to a pensioner or dependant of a pensioner at the medical practitioner’s surgery—Eleven shillings;

(b) subject to the next succeeding paragraph, for a medical service rendered by a medical practitioner to a pensioner or dependant of a pensioner otherwise than at the medical practitioner’s surgery—Thirteen shillings; and

(c) for medical services rendered by a medical practitioner to pensioners or dependants of pensioners where the medical services are rendered to more than one person on the occasion of an attendance at any one place not being the medical practitioner’s surgery or a place of private residence of a pensioner or dependant of a pensioner—Thirteen shillings for the medical service so rendered to one person and Eleven shillings for the medical service so rendered to each other person.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 2nd October, 1958.

  Statutory Rules 1954, No. 35; as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 71

4859/58.–Price 3d. 9/29.8.1958.

 

Allowances.

“26. For the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-section (2.) of section 32 of the Act, the prescribed allowance for any distance travelled by a medical practitioner in respect of which the agreement under that section provides for payment of an allowance is—

(a) if the distance is less than one-half of a mile—Two shillings;

(b) if the distance is not less than one-half of a mile but less than one mile—Four shillings; and

(c) if the distance is not less than one mile—Four shillings for each complete mile of the distance and, if the distance includes a fraction of a mile which is one-half of a mile or greater than one-half of a mile, an additional Four shillings.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.