STATUTORY RULES.
1950. No. 77.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE HOSPITAL BENEFITS ACT 1945-1948.*
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 Hospital Benefits Act 1945-1948.
Dated this first day of November, 1950.
W.J. McKell
Governor General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Health.
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Amendment of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations.†
1. Regulation 15 of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—
Claims for periods exceeding eight weeks.
“ 15.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, benefit shall not be payable in respect of any patient for any period exceeding eight weeks, unless the claim for benefit is accompanied by a certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner stating the nature of the illness and the reason for further hospital treatment, and the Director-General is satisfied that the further hospital treatment was necessary.
“ (2.) Unless the Director-General otherwise directs, the last preceding sub-regulation shall not apply to the payment of benefit in respect of a patient in a private mental hospital, a private mental home or a house for the reception of the insane.”.
Commencement.
2. Regulation 1 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of September, 1949.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1950.
† Statutory Rules 1946, No. 2, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, No. 52; 1947, No. 56; 1948, No. 151; and 1949, No. 12.
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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
5047.—Price 3d. 9/20.9.1950.