National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 304.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this seventeenth day of December, 1943.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. M. FRASER

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations.

Exemption.

1. Regulation 25 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) Any medical practitioner called upon to serve in the Citizen Forces or in the Emergency Medical Service in pursuance of regulation 23 or regulation 24 of these Regulations may, within fourteen days after the issue of the notice calling upon him to serve, forward to the State Committee in the State in which he resides an application in writing for exemption from such service.”.

2. Regulation 28 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Duties of members of Emergency Medical Service.

“28.—(1.) A member of the Emergency Medical Service shall—

(a) perform medical services for members of the civil population who are suffering injury, disease or incapacity as the result of war operations or who, under military direction or approval, leave their homes in consequence of or in apprehension of attacks by the enemy; and

(b) perform medical services for other members of the civil community,

in accordance with such directions as are, from time to time, given by the Central Committee or the State Committee in the State in which the member resides or is for the time being serving.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17th December, 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 51, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 204.

7304.—Price 3d.

 

“(2.) Directions under this regulation may specify the periods during which, and the place or places in Australia at which, the services shall be performed.

“(3.) The power to give directions under this regulation shall include the power to direct a member to act as locum tenens during any period in which it is necessary for any medical practitioner temporarily to cease practice.

“(4.) If a member of the Emergency Medical Service objects to any direction given to him by a State Committee, he may, within fourteen days after the date upon which the directions are given, forward an appeal in writing to the Central Committee setting out the grounds of his objection, and shall forward a copy of the appeal to the Chairman of the State Committee, who shall forward to the Chairman of the Central Committee a statement of the views of the State Committee with respect to the appeal.

“(5.) On receipt of the appeal, the Central Committee shall consider the grounds of the objection and the views expressed by the State Committee and may confirm, vary or revoke the direction of the State Committee.”.

3. After regulation 29 of the National Security (Medical Coordination and Equipment) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Members of Emergency Medical Service not required to be registered under State law.

“29a. In respect of the performance of medical services in pursuance of regulation 28 or regulation 29 of these Regulations, a member of the Emergency Medical Service shall be deemed to be entitled to practise as a legally qualified medical practitioner in the State or Territory of the Commonwealth in which such services are performed, notwithstanding that he has not complied with the requirements of the law of the State or Territory relating to the registration of medical practitioners.”.

4. Regulation 30 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Pay and allowance of members of Emergency Medical Service.

“30.—(1.) The Chairman or Executive Officer of a State Committee may, if the State Committee considers that the circumstances under which a medical practitioner is performing medical services under these Regulations justify payment to him under this sub-regulation, give notice to the medical practitioner that he will be paid such rates as are determined by the Minister in accordance with the rates of pay and allowances payable to medical officers of the Commonwealth Department of Health, and the medical practitioner shall, so long as the notice continues in force, be paid accordingly.

“(2.) The Minister may, where a member of the Emergency Medical Service continues the practice of medicine under conditions which the Minister considers to be exceptional, authorize the payment of a sum approved by him, on the recommendation of the Central Committee, to that member, who shall be entitled to be paid accordingly.

“(3.) Notwithstanding anything in this regulation, a member of the Emergency Medical Service may, if he so desires, serve in an honorary capacity.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.