Naval Financial Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No.2201

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Naval Financial Regulations2 (Amendment)

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 Naval Defence Act 1910.

Dated 9 September 1982.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Defence

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Medical and dental treatment

1. Regulation 244 of the Naval Financial Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (3) “or dental treatment” after “provided with medical treatment”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (3) (a) “medical”;

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) all words after “pay to the Commonwealth” and substituting “an amount, fixed by the Minister, not exceeding—

(c) in respect of medical treatment or dental treatment provided for the member when he was an in-patient at a service or Repatriation hospital in a State referred to in Scheduled 2—an amount calculated in accordance with Schedule 2 in respect of each day on which the member was provided with that treatment; or

(d) in respect of any other medical or dental treatment—the expense incurred by the Commonwealth for that treatment”;

and

(d) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:

“(5) In sub-regulation (3), the references to a member of the Navy, other than the first of those references, shall be read as including a reference to a person—

(a) who, when he was a member of the Navy, was provided under this regulation with medical treatment or dental treatment at the expense of the Commonwealth; and

(b) who has ceased to be a member of the Navy.

“(6) For the purpose of calculating an amount referred to in paragraph (3) (c), the day on which a member enters a hospital as an in-patient and the day on which he ceases to be an in-patient of the hospital shall be counted together as one day.

“(7) In this regulation—

‘dental treatment’ includes the provision of advice, treatment or dental supplies and appliances by, or on the authority of, a dental officer or dental practitioner;

‘medical treatment’ includes the provision of advice, treatment or medical supplies or appliances by, or on the authority of, a medical officer or medical practitioner, transport in an ambulance or maintenance and accommodation at a hospital;

‘Repatriation hospital’ means a hospital established, controlled or administered by the Repatriation Commission under the Repatriation Act 1920.”.

Schedule 2

2. The Naval Financial Regulations are amended by inserting after Schedule 1 the following Schedule:

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SCHEDULE 2

CHARGE FOR EACH DAY ON WHICH MEMBER WAS AN IN-PATIENT AT A SERVICE OR REPATRIATION HOSPITAL IN A STATE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7	Column 8
Item	Period when treatment was provided	Hospital in New South Wales	Hospital in Victoria	Hospital in Queensland	Hospital in South Australia	Hospital in Western Australia	Hospital in Tasmania
$	$	$	$	$	$
1	1 July 1975 to 30 June 1976
		72.04	87.86	66.71	74.04	86.61	68.63
2	1 July 1976 to 30 June 1977
		88.07	121.50	82.25	90.18	82.08	82.70
3	1 July 1977 to 30 June 1978
		112.84	141.50	100.12	108.65	100.06	93.95
4	1 July 1978 to 30 June 1979	136.22	134.92	116.02	122.27	117.96	102.41
5	1 July 1979 to 30 June 1980
		144.04	142.07	125.26	132.52	124.65	113.60
6	1 July 1980 to 30 June 1981
		157.66	162.48	136.83	145.45	134.60	128.68
7	From 1 July 1981
		174.50	188.65	156.62	166.46	156.70	162.08

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 September 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 88 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 1 and see also