EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1990 No. 335
NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Section 140 of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make Regulations for the purposes of the Act.
The term ‘day hospital facility’ is presently defined in subsection 4 (1) of the Act as follows:
“(a) premises registered as a hospital under a law of a State or Territory relating to the registration of hospitals; or
(b) premises, or premises included in a class of premises, prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.”
Regulation 4 of the National Health Regulations has been amended to prescribe seven premises as May hospital facilities’ for the purposes of the above definition.
The National Health Regulations (Amendment) amends regulation 4 to prescribe, for the purposes of the above definition, Mugga Wara Unit, City Chambers, 47 East Row, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, as a ‘day hospital facility’. The patients of the Mugga Wara Unit are now eligible to receive basic table benefits as are patients of all other such day hospital facilities.