STATUTORY RULES.
1949. No. .
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 Twenty-third day of February, 1949.
W. J. McKell
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Health.
Amendment of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations.†
Definitions.
1. Regulation 3 of the Hospital Benefits (Private Hospitals) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the definition of “hospital treatment” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—
“‘hospital treatment’ means accommodation and nursing care for the purposes of—
(a) medical, surgical or obstetric treatment by or under the supervision of a legally qualified medical practitioner;
(b) obstetric treatment by or under the supervision of a registered obstetric nurse; or
(c) dental treatment by or under the supervision of a legally qualified dentist or dental practitioner;”;
(b) by inserting in the definition of “private hospital” in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “hospital” (second occurring), the words “, a private mental hospital, a private mental home or a house for the reception of the insane”; and
(c) by omitting from that definition the words “any mental hospital or home, or”.
Commencement.
2. The amendments effected by paragraphs (b) and (c) of the last preceding regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1949.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1949.
† Statutory Rules 1946, No. 2, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, No. 52; 1947, No. 56; and 1948, No. 151.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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