National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1994

No. 256 1

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National Health Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the National Health Act 1953.

Dated 21 July 1994.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

CARMEN LAWRENCE

Minister for Human Services and Health

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1.   Commencement

1.1   Regulation 3 is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1993.

[NOTE: The remainder of these Regulations commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Amendment

2.1   The National Health Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   New regulation 46A

3.1   After regulation 46, insert:

Rate of interest payable on repayments

“46A.

(1) For the purposes of subsections 65SA (1) and 65SB (1) of the Act, the rate of interest payable on a repayment that the Commonwealth is liable to make is the rate payable by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on a term deposit, made on the day on which the relevant payment was made, of an amount equal to the relevant payment.

“(2)

In subregulation (1):

‘relevant payment’ means an amount paid to the Commonwealth by a person under section 65GT, 65H, 65J or 65K of the Act, as the case requires;

‘repayment’ means an amount that the Commonwealth is liable to repay to a person under section 65GU, 65H, 65J, 65M, 65N, 65P, 65Q or 65S of the Act, as the case requires, after a relevant payment is paid to the Commonwealth;

‘term deposit’ means a deposit for a period of 90 days on which interest is paid at maturity.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 July 1994.

2. Statutory Rules 1954 No. 35 as amended by 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; 1978 Nos. 66, 178, 208 and 266; 1979 Nos. 59, 107, 208 and 231; 1980 Nos. 84, 292 and 309; 1981 Nos. 43, 97, 115, 232 and 318; 1982 Nos. 38, 82, 84, 250 and 284; 1983 Nos. 45, 247 and 267; 1984 Nos. 66, 161, 200, 308, 322 and 427; 1985 Nos. 86, 136, 186, 187, 206 and 288; 1986 Nos. 47, 53, 208, 330, 353 and 360; 1987 Nos. 50, 76, 100 and 310; 1989 Nos. 291, 292 and 334; 1990 Nos. 24, 86, 114, 292, 335 and 396; 1991 Nos. 40, 41, 232, 262, 263, 310 and 339;

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 1992 Nos. 136 and 187; 1993 Nos. 48, 85, 153, 260, 261, 273, 280 and 284; 1994 Nos. 2, 9 ,106, 139 and 201.